• News 23 September 2019 New global effort on climate change targets 3% increase in energy efficiency per year A new coalition of countries, businesses and international organizations today committed to driving a three percent global increase in energy efficiency each year – a move that can help limit climate change and increase global prosperity. Launched at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, the Three Percent Club builds on International Energy Agency (IEA) research showing that the right efficiency policies could deliver over 40 per cent of the emissions cuts needed to reach the goals of the…
• News 23 September 2019 UNEP DTU Partnership contributes to the science behind climate action Today heads of state and world leaders gather in New York for the UN Climate Action Summit. The objective: to create the policy that save the world from rising sea levels, increasing weather extremes and global warming. Policy that is based on the latest climate data and science. Along with other leading science institutions, DTU, through the UNEP DTU Partnership, is delivering the very latest authoritative information to the UN Climate Action Summit. Motivated by the climate crisis, the summit…
• News 22 September 2019 From “lost decade” of climate action, hope emerges The world would seem to have spent the last decade doing the exact opposite of what it should. Despite the warnings in each year’s gap report, emissions are now almost exactly what early gap reports projected they would be in 2020, if the world did nothing to change its polluting growth models. The advances the world did make, such as a boom in renewable energy, were negated by other factors, including faster than anticipated economic growth. Download Lessons From a Decade of Emissions Gap…
• News 21 September 2019 G20 nations are lagging in climate action, but have huge opportunities to increase ambition G20 nations are collectively not on track to meet their Paris Agreement commitments, but they have huge opportunities to undertake rapid and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, according to new UN and UNEP DTU Partnership research. A pre-released chapter of the 2019 Emissions Gap Report shows that G20 members, which account for around 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, are not yet taking on transformative climate commitments at the necessary breadth and scale. The chapter released ahead…
• Podcast 10 September 2019 Derisking investments into green buildings Problem: Energy efficiency is becoming more and more recognised as a cost-effective mitigation measure for achieving the Paris Agreement and SDGs, however, it is considered a not very tangible, not too sexy, relatively fragmented and small-scale efforts. The question that many actors are facing in the field is to how to bring the scale to Energy Efficiency on the local, national and global level. Key message: Derisking buildings through green mortgages can help to bring scale to energy…
• News 9 September 2019 Asia Can Lead Global Transformation towards Low Carbon and Resilience Asia-Pacific Climate Week in Bangkok, Thailand (APCW 2019) wrapped up on Friday, with participants agreeing  on what steps urgently need to be taken for the region to be able to profit from the advantages of the transition to low carbon and to be able to build resilience to the worst impacts of climate change. The compelling social and economic reasons to rapidly shift to low carbon and resilience were outlined by high-level speakers who warned that current levels of ambition to tackle…
• Webinar & E-Learning 6 September 2019 MRV for District Energy Systems (Webinar) – 06.09.2019 District heating and district cooling, also known as district energy systems, is a crucial technical solution for clean and liveable cities. The UN Environment, together with many other partners, is providing technical support to a dozen countries in their efforts for district energy development. How to measure and report the energy, climate change mitigation, and other social and economic benefits of these projects is a common challenge faced by many countries and cities. This webinar will…
• News 26 August 2019 LAC Climate Week Calls for Urgent, Ambitious Action The Latin American and Caribbean Climate Week closed last week with calls for more ambition and stronger collaboration among all levels of government, the private sector and civil society. Around 4,000 people participated in the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW) with a focus on implementing national climate plans and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Taking place in the Brazilian city of Salvador, the Climate Week sent a message of solidarity with all the people of…

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