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- News 22 July 2022 China strengthens its implementation of ETF Home to around 1.4 billion people and covering a vast expanse across Asia, China is a diverse country with a complex climate characterized by a monsoon zone in the East, an arid Northwest region and alpine-like weather along the Tibetan plateau. With these different climate conditions, come differing challenges: the concentrated rain of a monsoon can cause floods, storms and typhoons; the lack of surface water in a continental dry climate could lead to a fragile environment; and the frequent…
- News 15 July 2022 Zimbabwe on track to better climate action transparency Zimbabwe has finished the first phase of the country’s work with the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), and is now on track to better collect data key to attaining national climate change goals. The data will be crucial in mobilizing resources for implementation of Zimbabwe’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, and for tracking and evaluating implementation, as well as assessing impacts of policies and actions. “The support received from ICAT…
- Event 27 June 2022 Upscaling E-Mobility in Developing Countries for Climate Mitigation (Webinar) Transportation is responsible for 24% of the direct global CO2 emissions due to fossil fuel combustion. The Paris agreement on climate change set the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are widely considered a powerful mitigation option to reduce CO2 emissions from buses, passenger cars and two and three-wheelers in the transport sector. The global push toward EVs is reflected in…
- Webinar & E-Learning 27 June 2022 Hydrogen & Carbon Capture. Facilitating Green Hydrogen Production and Export (Webinar) - 22.06.2022 During the webinar, Dr. Romanas Savickas made an introduction to Hydrogen development roots and history, the comparison and Hydrogen potential VS other fuels, Hydrogen properties and due to this related transportation issues and potential opportunities, Hydrogen market costs and future trends, Hydrogen strategies of different countries, Mapping global Hydrogen supply-demand, Global Hydrogen import/export potential, Discussion on facilitating Green Hydrogen production and export/import.
- Webinar & E-Learning 23 June 2022 Regulatory Barriers for Energy Service Companies - Perspectives from National ESCO Associations (Webinar) - 31.05.2022 This is a launch of a publication with the same name as the webinar. The publication reviews 12 countries and their regulatory environment, identifying and categorising ten types of regulatory barriers that ESCOs face to a smaller or greater extent in their line of business. At the launch, three countries that have participated in the analysis will briefly introduce the regulatory environment in their respective national contexts.
- News 17 June 2022 Mission Efficiency creates platform for energy efficiency investment This week, Mission Efficiency concluded the first Energy Efficiency Financing Charrette. The event brought together energy efficiency and financial experts from around the world, successfully creating a new platform that will enable these two communities to work together to accelerate the scope and pace of energy efficiency projects globally. The charrette format allowed for open exchanges of interdisciplinary viewpoints and ideas on multiple topics and in a short period of time. The event was…
- Event 9 June 2022 Hydrogen & Carbon Capture. Facilitating Green Hydrogen Production and Export (Webinar) During the webinar, Dr. Romanas Savickas will make an introduction to Hydrogen development roots and history, the comparison and Hydrogen potential VS other fuels, Hydrogen properties and due to this related transportation issues and potential opportunities, Hydrogen market costs and future trends, Hydrogen strategies of different countries, Mapping global Hydrogen supply-demand, Global Hydrogen import/export potential, Discussion on facilitating Green Hydrogen production and export/import.
- News 7 June 2022 Mongolia and Bangladesh move towards NDC priorities To support climate action and ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Mongolia and Bangladesh, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre (UNEP-CCC) joined high-level and in-person meetings with Government and wider stakeholders to discuss and agree sector-specific investment opportunities. In both countries, UNEP-CCC joined the meetings and workshops through the NDC Action Project, a project supporting 10 partner countries across the world, to help translate NDCs into concrete sector…