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- News 15 February 2021 2020: Highlights from the TNA project 2020 was a year of great achievements for the Global Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project. Despite the pandemic circumstances, countries involved in the TNA process made great progress, and the year was marked by a number of online events and publication launches that generated great interest from policy-makers, academia, businesses and NGOs worldwide. 2020: Strengthened linkages between TNAs and NDCs In 2020, 22 countries completed their Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) reports. Through…
- News 21 December 2020 New research and project funding for UDP UNEP DTU Partnership ends the year on a positive note, winning several large projects in the last quarter of 2020. One of these projects is funded by the European Commission's prestigious and highly competitive H2020 programme. The 4-year EUR research project entitled "Innovative Tools for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (InnoCyPES)" will see UDP work with DTU Elektro, as part of consortium focusing on the transformation towards fully digitalized energy systems and enabling changes in policy,…
- News 1 December 2020 Fourth round of Technology Needs Assessments is underway This fall, 17 countries have started their Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) in the fourth round of the global TNA project. Through the TNA project, the countries, consisting of Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries, will get a clearer understanding of what kind of technologies are best suited to their specific climate change situation. TNAs are a significant instrument in developing countries efforts to not only determine which technologies best suit their need…
- News 30 November 2020 Fourth round of Technology Needs Assessments is underway This fall, 17 countries have started their Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) in the fourth round of the global TNA project. Through the TNA project, the countries, consisting of Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries, will get a clearer understanding of what kind of technologies are best suited to their specific climate change situation. TNAs are a significant instrument in developing countries efforts to not only determine which technologies best suit their need for…
- News 20 October 2020 2 New briefs on Data Centres! Digitalisation Powerhouse and Energy Efficiency Potential Key messages: The digitalisation of the economy worldwide and technological innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), internet-of-things (IoT) and blockchain are driving exponential growth in the demand for data centres’ services. Data centres use approximately 200 TWh of electricity annually, corresponding to roughly 1% of global electricity demand. To curb the rapid growth in the energy use of data centres, it is key…
- News 3 September 2020 Finding new digital ways for climate capacity building Through online platforms, webinars and digital workshops UNEP DTU Partnership is continuing our work on climate action and capacity building for a greener future. Since the global spread of Covid19 earlier this year, UNEP DTU Partnership has adapted our approaches, finding new ways to engage our partners, and taking advantage of digital technology to continue to reach our stakeholders and share knowledge and experience on climate action. Two new digital workshops By virtually gathering relevant…
- Webinar & E-Learning 8 July 2020 Beyond Energy Efficiency - Life Cycle Based Data Centre Sustainability (Webinar) – 02.07.2020 Digital Climate Emergency Series - EP.2 As the role of data centre keeps increasing, so will concerns over its huge energy use, increased energy cost, associated impacts on climate change and more corporate social responsibility pressures. In recent years, the data center industry has made excellent progress in enhancing energy efficiency and adopting renewable energy sources. However, a sole focus on energy efficiency may cause burden shifting and overlook other relevant environmental problems…
- Project 26 June 2020 Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency - Sustainable Datacentres and ICT The project is led by the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency and serves as a global platform to share best practices of energy efficient solutions in data centres, provide policy recommendations to policy makers and foster transformational collaboration among various public and private stakeholders in the global data centre industry. It is founded on the basis that exponential increase in the amount of data demand and production is driving the request for more digital processing and storage…