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- Publication 16 August 2021 Energy efficiency strategic planning for municipalities
- Publication 16 August 2021 District heating for China’s energy transition: Lessons from Sino-Danish collaboration Cities are important role models for achieving sustainable green urban development. More than half the world’s population now lives in cities, which are responsible for over 70% of global energy use. Energy use in the urban areas of municipal corporations accounts for 40 to 50% of GHG emissions worldwide, compared to rural areas outside cities (Gielen 2019). In 2013, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) initiated research on and surveyed low-carbon cities worldwide to identify the key…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Guide de financement pour la mise en oeuvre des plans d’action technologiques The results of the TNA process are available for integration into national planning processes and for funding and implementation by interested stakeholders. Participating countries gain improved in-country capacity on the methodologies and process of conducting a TNA, including stakeholder engagement, multi-criteria analysis, barrier analysis and preparation of project concepts, including financial proposals. The outputs of the project will be generated using a transparent participatory…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Incorporating Energy Service Companies in Nationally Determined Contributions: The potential of ESCOs for meeting the climate goals in the Paris Agreement Energy efficiency is central to efforts to make the transition to clean energy, achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5˚C by the turn of the century. Energy efficiency is a cost-effective means of reducing 40% of the carbon emissions required to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. As of 2018, there are 789 million people without access to electricity, 2.8 billion without access to clean cooking and more than a billion at high…
- Publication 16 August 2021 Upscaling Energy-efficiency in Municipalities: Sourcebook on Project Bundling
- Publication 16 August 2021 Environmental sustainability of data centres: A need for a multi-impact and life cycle approach This issue brief uses examples to showcase the substantial environmental impacts of data centres stemming from other life cycle stages than their operations and calls for the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to assess and address such impacts.
- Publication 16 August 2021 Data Centres: Digitalisation Powerhouse and Energy Efficiency Potential
- Publication 16 August 2021 Finance Guide for Implementation of Technology Action Plans The results of the TNA process are available for integration into national planning processes and for funding and implementation by interested stakeholders. Participating countries gain improved in-country capacity on the methodologies and process of conducting a TNA, including stakeholder engagement, multi-criteria analysis, barrier analysis and preparation of project concepts, including financial proposals. The outputs of the project will be generated using a transparent participatory…