• News 3 January 2018 23 new countries will assess their technology needs with help from UNEP DTU Partnership Technology is key to achieving the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement: Lower the emission of CO2 and halting the rise on global temperatures that threatens the livelihood of people everywhere in the world. To enhance the development, transfer deployment and dissemination of technology UNEP DTU has assisted countries in their Technology Needs Assessments (TNA’s) since 2009. TNA’s support developing countries to determine their own climate technology needs so it is possible to define how best…
• News 13 December 2017 Today's prevention is not enough for the heat waves of tomorrow, shows UDP research Climate change and the warmer temperatures it is bringing means that heat-related mortality will increase in most regions of the world. In the most likely climate change scenarios, that increase will not be compensated globally by a reduction in cold-related deaths. Heat Waves are already a problem in many cities around the world, killing people in both temperate and hotter regions, and with climate change this is only set to get worse. "There is little evidence that humans will be able to…
• News 27 October 2017 UNEP DTU supports resource-efficient farming in Jamaica In Jamaica, small and medium-scale farmers are the most vulnerable to current and future effects of climate change due to their lack of technology, knowledge and financing. These effects are threatening the agriculture sector, which provides employment to 18% of the country’s population.  New business models and technologies are needed to enable farmers to not only adapt but also thrive in this new context. UNEP DTU Partnership and INMED Partnerships for Children have addressed these…
• News 26 October 2017 UNEP DTU conducts first ever cost-benefit analysis of energy use in refugee camps At UNEP DTU Partnership, we have been researching rural energy use in developing countries since the early 1990s. Working with governments and small businesses, we seek out opportunities for switching from problematic fuels like wood to cleaner and safer forms of energy, like sustainable charcoal, briquettes and bottled Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). Recently, we have been collaborating with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in their effort to push energy up to the top of the humanitarian agenda…
• News 30 June 2016 Climate Change Response Requires Finance, Cooperation and Participation Kigali, Rwanda, 30 June 2016 – Success tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development in Africa will take finance, cooperation and real engagement with non-state actors, participants heard in high-level sessions that wrapped up this year’s Africa Carbon Forum. “Development must simply be sustainable. Otherwise it is not development,” said Vincent Biruta, Minister of Natural Resources of Rwanda. “We can only meet the Sustainable Development Goals if we deal with climate change.”…
• News 27 April 2015 ACAD Takes A Look Back at Five Years of Carbon Finance After five fruitful years, the African Carbon Asset Development facility (ACAD) has wrapped up operations, and UNEP-DTU is evaluating the program’s achievements and lessons learnt. ACAD’s goal was to catalyze the growth of the African carbon market, a goal that proved to be quite a challenge, given the collapse of the global carbon market just after the end of the programme’s first phase. Yet through targeted financial and technical support, ACAD succeeded in providing essential tools that can…
• News 24 April 2015 High level Ministerial dialogue at ACF 2015 Marrakech, Morocco, 15 April 2015 - The high level ministerial dialogue of the Seventh African Carbon Forum was convened, under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, in Marrakesh, Morocco on 15 April 2015. The dialogue was chaired by the H.E. Ms. Hakima El Haite, Delegate Minister in charge of the Environment of Morocco. H.E. Hakima El Haite, Mr. Richard Kinley, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Ambassador Stephane…
• News 10 December 2013 Roundtable on Comprehensive Mobility Plans held in New Delhi New Delhi, 4 December 2013 - Under the Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India Project, UNEP and its Risø Centre are collaborating with the Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) to revise the existing Comprehensive Mobility Plans (CMP) toolkit. A roundtable was organized in New Delhi to provide an introduction to the revised CMP toolkit and share implementation experiences from the three cities namely, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot and Udaipur, that are participating in the project by developing Low…

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