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- Webinar & E-Learning 11 December 2018 Global Growth Potential of Energy Efficient Data Centres (Webinar) - 11.12.2018 Data centres are among the most complex and energy-demanding facilities in the world. Currently, the world's data centres consumed 3% of global electricity with a growth project to 20% by 2025. These power hungry data centres are now responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions, a similar share of the entire aviation industry. This value potentially will escalate to 14% by 2040. The economic and environmental ramifications of continued data centre growth provide the rationale for exploring more…
- News 10 December 2018 Gender equality in climate action Gender equality is a goal in its own right, but it is also vital in relation to mitigation and adaptation to climate change. UNEP DTU Partnership seeks to advance women’s full, equal and meaningful participation and to promote the creation of gender-responsive climate policies. Kicking off Gender Day at COP24 tomorrow, UNDEP DTU Partnership is part of organising a high level event focusing on gender and the implementation of climate technology through the Technology Needs Assessments. "Women…
- News 10 December 2018 Gender equality in climate action Gender equality is a goal in its own right, but it is also vital in relation to mitigation and adaptation to climate change. UNEP DTU Partnership seeks to advance women’s full, equal and meaningful participation and to promote the creation of gender-responsive climate policies. Kicking off Gender Day at COP24 tomorrow, UNDEP DTU Partnership is part of organising a high level event focusing on gender and the implementation of climate technology through the Technology Needs Assessments. “Women…
- Project 4 December 2018 Capacity Building for Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) This project promoted environmental sustainability in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of nations within the context of Millennium Development Goal number 7. The project also worked in line with the international obligations and related commitments under the various Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) signed by the respective countries. The project enhanced the capacity of ACP countries to implement their respective obligations under MEAs and honour related commitments…
- Webinar & E-Learning 22 November 2018 Overcoming Barriers to Investing in Energy Efficiency (Webinar) - 04.12.2018 The presenters provide their views on the ways to improve the investment climate for energy efficiency and to find policy solutions and incentive schemes to make energy efficiency projects viable. They talk of the role of private sector and financial institutions in implementing energy efficiency measures and projects and what governments can do to facilitate this. The basis for this conversation is the joint UNECE/Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency publication Overcoming Barriers to…
- Project 13 November 2018 African Carbon Asset Development (ACAD) Facility I & II The African Carbon Asset Development (ACAD) Facility was originally established in 2009 at the height of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project development to address the widespread concern that CDM evaded the African continent. As the market shifted away from CDM and into other concepts like Programmes of Activity, NAMAs and microfinance, ACAD II followed. ACAD was an innovative public-private partnership that collaborated not only with local project developers to enhance their awareness,…
- Project 7 November 2018 MAAP tool assessment The Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol (MAAP) tool was developed by the World Bank to promote transparency in how mitigation actions are designed and how they compare in terms of quality of design. The MAAP tool is an assessment tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses in mitigation action design. It allows practitioners to improve the completeness of their Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), enhance transparency of the mitigation action, communicate benefits and…
- Project 7 November 2018 CBIT Transparency Support Team The CBIT Transparency Support Team is a collaborative effort that brings together a team of experts from UNEP DTU Partnership working with the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT). In conjunction with countries around the world the team prepares projects to be presented under the CBIT Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund. The overall objective of collaborative effort is to strengthen the preparation of CBIT projects to be presented to the GEF, by sharing common practices…