Capacity Building
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- Webinar & E-Learning 29 May 2017 Energy and Emissions: Mapping the Impacts (Webinar) - 23.05.2017 This BEA webinar is demonstrating how to measure the potential sustainability impacts of city policies and projects. Speakers are discussing how to find the estimated emissions reductions from policies intended for, or unrelated to, climate mitigation. Linkages between emissions impacts and other factors, such as city health and cost savings are being discussed and mapped. Examples from city case studies and the buildings sector are being discussed with opportunities for participants…
- News 7 May 2017 Ghana takes significant mitigation actions to reduce emissions Since March 2012, the UNEP DTU implemented Facilitating Implementation and Readiness for Mitigation (FIRM) project has been helping Ghana identify appropriate mitigation actions and incorporate them into their national sustainable development plans. And now, the country’s efforts to move towards a green future are bearing fruit. With the assistance and support of the FIRM project, Ghana was able to develop not only a Low Carbon Development (LCD) plan, a national blueprint for developing low…
- Webinar & E-Learning 3 May 2017 Options for Incentivizing Voluntary, Above-code Construction (Webinar) - 10.05.2017 This BEA webinar, open to BEA cities and partners, as well as the general public aims to help cities identify incentive types that may work to spur above-code development in their local context. Building on the first webinar from this working group that featured the ‘what and why’ of above-code construction, this webinar looks in greater detail at different policy options intended to stimulate green building in the private sector, and in some cases, the public sector…
- Webinar & E-Learning 28 April 2017 Standards to Achieve City Sustainability (Webinar) - 26/27.04.2017 This BEA webinar engages participants on how to use tools and standards to improve city sustainability. Participants learn about how to create a greenhouse gas inventory to benchmark and track city emissions reductions with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Cities, how to estimate the potential emissions from city projects and policies with the GHG Protocol Policy and Action Standard, and how to set ambitious targets for cities with the Mitigation Goal Standard. The webinar…
- Webinar & E-Learning 26 April 2017 BEA City Training Webinar: Using the BEA Tracking Progress Template (Webinar) - 25.04.2017 This BEA webinar aims to help cities select localized indicators to track their progress and set clear goals for what they will achieve, with emphasis on activities until September 2017, the end of current BEA phase. Cities are learning how to use the BEA Tracking Progress Template and have a chance to ask questions about how to apply this tool to their local BEA policy and project activities and to fulfill their tracking progress commitment to the …
- News 21 April 2017 UNEP DTU hosts workshop on Transparency Initiative UNEP DTU Partnership hosted a two-day technical workshop on the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency on 19-20 April at the UN City in Copenhagen. Organized in partnership with UN Development Programme and UN Environment, the workshop aimed at strengthening the understanding of the priorities and needs for the implementation of the transparency framework established by the Paris Agreement. It provided a space for sharing experiences on ongoing transparency initiatives, discussions on…
- Webinar & E-Learning 18 April 2017 Introduction to EDGE Voluntary Certification and Discussion of Municipal Incentive Options (Webinar) - 19.04.2017 A city can reduce its utility bills and its carbon footprint through better design of not just the buildings it owns but also all buildings that lie within its jurisdiction. This webinar is introducing participants to EDGE, a quick, simple, low-cost online certification system that has certified over one million square meters to date, from high-end hotels and offices to budget retail and low-income housing projects. This accessible certification can in turn facilitate a wide range of fiscal…
- Webinar & E-Learning 10 April 2017 Energy Efficiency Actions in Denmark-Copenhagen-Nordhavn (Webinar) - 07.04.2017 The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency is hosting a no-cost webinar series ‘Think globally, act locally’ in order to show how energy efficiency policies and actions are linked together at the global, national and local levels of decision-making and how potentially local actions can drive policy and market transformation at the higher levels of governance. Each webinar will start with the global level discussion on the trends and development in the field of energy efficiency followed by the…