Business Models and Finance
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- Publication 2 October 2025 Business Models and Finance to Enhance Energy Efficiency in AI and Data Centres in Emerging Economies The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and digital services is fuelling a surge in electricity demand from data centres, particularly in emerging economies. While digital infrastructure is essential for development, the energy it consumes risks overwhelming fragile power systems, competing with other energy uses, driving up costs, and undermining climate goals. According to the IEA, global data centres consumed around 460 TWh in 2022, corresponding to about 2% of…
- News 17 February 2025 UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre launches groundbreaking energy efficiency initiative in Mauritius The UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, in collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Management Office (EEMO) of the Ministry of Energy in Mauritius has initiated the first stages of the De-risking Facility for Energy Performance Contracting project, aimed at overcoming financial barriers to energy efficiency investments through energy performance contracting in Mauritius. Designed in 2023 through the GEF funded project Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for Low Carbon Island Development…
- Publication 14 December 2022 Developing a common approach for classifying building stock energy models Buildings contribute 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions; therefore, strategies that can substantially reduce emissions from the building stock are key components of broader efforts to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainable development goals. Models that represent the energy use of the building stock at scale under various scenarios of technology deployment have become essential tools for the development and assessment of such strategies. Within the past decade, the capabilities of…
- Publication 7 December 2022 Layout optimization process to minimize the cost of energy of an offshore floating hybrid wind-wave farm Offshore floating hybrid wind and wave energy is a young technology yet to be scaled up. A way to reduce the total costs of the energy production process in order to ensure competitiveness in the sustainable energy market is to maximize the farm’s efficiency. To do so, an energy generation and costs calculation model was developed with the objective of minimizing the technology’s Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) of the P80 hybrid wind-wave concept, designed by the company Floating Power Plant A…
- Publication 7 December 2022 Understanding climate policy integration in the global South through the multiple streams framework Actions needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change have often synergies and trade-offs with sectoral and sustainable development priorities, and the recent focus on SDGs and sustainable transitions highlights the need to integrate climate action into other policy spheres. This process is known as climate policy integration (CPI) or climate mainstreaming. Enhancing its understanding as a public policy making process can provide insights for its operationalization, which becomes relevant in…
- Publication 7 December 2022 Economic benefit analysis of green building based on fuzzy logic and bilateral game model Green building is the development of sustainable development concept in architectural field. While the construction industry has brought great benefits to the development of national economy, its high investment, high pollution and inefficient development mode has also produced a huge energy load. Therefore, from the perspective of environmental and economic sustainability, the development of green buildings is particularly important. In this paper, the author makes economic benefit analysis of…
- Publication 7 December 2022 Modeling global and regional potentials for building-integrated solar energy generation With the Paris Agreement coming into force, global efforts will need to maximize opportunities through energy efficiency and renewable energy generation. Zero energy/carbon initiatives are mushrooming worldwide, but it has not been fully understood which building types in which climates and under which conditions can potentially be built to net zero energy standards. In order to inform these efforts, a new model was developed to estimate the technical potential for building—integrated solar…
- Publication 8 November 2022 Research on regional energy efficiency based on GIS technology and image quality processing Economic development requires energy support, but the economy that relies too much on high energy consumption and high pollution is not sustainable. However, due to blind investment and low-level expansion of some new energy companies, some new energy industry has overcapacity and low production efficiency, slowing down the pace of new energy industry development, and limiting the development space of new energy companies. Thus, this paper is based on the GIS technology and image quality…