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- News 25 November 2015 NAMAcademy expands with courses at home and abroad Demand is growing for the unique programme at UNEP DTU’s NAMAcademy. When it was launched in 2012, the academy’s six-day intensive course on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) was held only once a year. In 2015, not only were there two resident courses onsite in Denmark, but also an in-country course in Mozambique. NAMAcademy offers week long intensive courses and private coaching to public officials and other project developers on the ins and outs of NAMA design and formulation…
- News 24 November 2015 C2E2 and WRI co-organize Building Efficiency Accelerator Round Table On November 20, Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) and World Resource Institute (WRI) co-organised the Building Efficiency Accelerator Round Table as part of the 3rd Liveable Cities Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey. The Round Table gathered local representatives of public, private and civil sectors, as well as academia, with the aim to discuss needs and gaps for green and efficiency building policies in Turkey and introduce the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) of Sustainable…
- News 24 November 2015 C2E2 hosts Global Workshop for speeding up energy efficiency Earlier this month, the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) hosted a gathering of government, finance institutions, researchers and other experts to mobilize energy efficiency initiatives in both the public and private sectors. Entitled the Global Workshop to Accelerate Energy Efficiency: Challenges, Opportunities and Roadmaps, the event was held from November 9 to 12 at UN City in Copenhagen. At the inaugural session, presentations were geared toward identifying and making use…
- News 24 November 2015 A new look at Climate Change risk management in the energy sector What does “adaptation to climate change” mean to energy sector businesses? A seminal 2011 World Bank study, to which the UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP) contributed, shed light on the issue by presenting the key options available for managing operations in the energy sector against the background of a changing climate. Earlier this year, UDP contributed additional insights through two innovative studies: Adaptation to Climate Change in Nicaragua’s Hydropower Industry, and Adaptation to Climate…
- News 23 November 2015 UDP Participates in 26th anniversary Convention for the Right of the Child UNEP DTU Partnership attended celebrations to mark the 26th anniversary Convention for the Right of the Child on Friday, 20 November at UN City, in Copenhagen. Hosted by UNICEF, the event brought together child - rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2014, Kailash Satyarthi, Danish Minister of Social Affairs and the Interior, Karen Elleman, and UNICEF Regional Director, Daniel Toole, to 400 attendees from the Danish civil society and private sector. Two goals, one struggle As part of…
- News 6 November 2015 Sixth Emissions Gap Report Executive Summary Launched Geneva, 6 November 2015 – Existing policies and strong engagement by nations submitting their contributions ahead of the Paris climate meeting will limit anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, but a new climate agreement can encourage further action to limit global temperature rise to 2°C by 2100, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report. Click to download the Executive Summary (English) and Executive Summary (French). The Emissions Gap…
- News 23 October 2015 UNEP DTU's work covered in Danish weekly The Post On the occassion of UN Day on 24 October and United Nations' 70th anniversary celebrations, this week's The Post supplement presents the work of UN agencies based at the UN City in Copenhagen. In this vein, UNEP's presence in Denmark and UNEP DTU's assistance to countries in preparing their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) in the run up to COP21 in Paris is published in an article. You can read the supplement below and access the articles on UNEP and UNEP DTU Partnership on…
- News 15 October 2015 NAMAcademy conducts fourth training course in Denmark NAMAcademy, a project run by UNEP DTU Partnership concluded its fourth residential workshop in Denmark last week. The NAMAcademy is at the forefront of providing capacity building and hands-on assistance to those working on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or NAMAs, and train those focused on structuring NAMAs to attract finance in an attempt to take these from concept to implementation. Attended by 10 participants from 6 countries, the NAMAcademy course helped to provide guidance and…