• Event 22 October 2019 Powering Digital Transformation through Sustainable Datacentres Meet us at the High Tech Summit 2019 where UNEP DTU is hosting a track on Powering Digital Transformation through Sustainable Datacentres. Datacenters have an important role to play in digital transformation. Today’s datacenters have the potential to become a dynamic change agent within smart urban systems. The growth of inefficient datacentre brings irreversible economic and environmental ramifications to the society. Currently, the world's datacentres consumed 3% of global electricity with a…
• Podcast 17 October 2019 Battle for the thermostat: energy efficiency and gender Problem: There is a significant difference in perception of indoor thermal comfort between men and women, with men demonstrating a strong preference lower temperatures than women, sometimes referred to as the ‘battle of the thermostat’. Research discussed in this episode shows that there is also a notable impact on productivity and cognitive performance, with women performing better at high temperatures than at low temperatures. At the same time in most modern office space, the settings for the…
• News 15 October 2019 Latin America Business Forum - District Heating Development in Chile The head of strategy at Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency Gabriela Dias, participated in the "District Heating Development in Chile" seminar, organized by the Latin American Business Forum and her presentation was about the "Overview UNEP-DES initiative in Latin America". [iframe src="https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6589167752643129344" height="532" width="504" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Embedded post"]   Find Out More
• News 9 October 2019 Urban mobility under transformation Today, more than 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas. As more than two billion people will be added to the global population in the coming decades and urban populations continue to grow, the question arises: how can people and the goods they require be moved more efficiently than they are today? Today, the transport sector accounts for almost two-thirds of global energy consumption. It produces approximately one-third of global energy-related CO2 emissions and is the primary…
• Event 8 October 2019 Powering Digital Transformation through Sustainable Datacentres - Organized by UNEP DTU Partnership Datacenters have an important role to play in digital transformation. Today’s datacenters have the potential to become a dynamic change agent within smart urban systems. The growth of inefficient datacentre brings irreversible economic and environmental ramifications to the society. Currently, the world's datacentres consumed 3% of global electricity with a growth project to 20% by 2025. These power hungry datacentres now are responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions, a similar share of the…
• News 23 September 2019 New global effort on climate change targets 3% increase in energy efficiency per year A new coalition of countries, businesses and international organizations today committed to driving a three percent global increase in energy efficiency each year – a move that can help limit climate change and increase global prosperity. Launched at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, the Three Percent Club builds on International Energy Agency (IEA) research showing that the right efficiency policies could deliver over 40 per cent of the emissions cuts needed to reach the goals of the…
• News 21 September 2019 G20 nations are lagging in climate action, but have huge opportunities to increase ambition G20 nations are collectively not on track to meet their Paris Agreement commitments, but they have huge opportunities to undertake rapid and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, according to new UN and UNEP DTU Partnership research. A pre-released chapter of the 2019 Emissions Gap Report shows that G20 members, which account for around 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, are not yet taking on transformative climate commitments at the necessary breadth and scale. The chapter released ahead…
• Podcast 10 September 2019 Derisking investments into green buildings Problem: Energy efficiency is becoming more and more recognised as a cost-effective mitigation measure for achieving the Paris Agreement and SDGs, however, it is considered a not very tangible, not too sexy, relatively fragmented and small-scale efforts. The question that many actors are facing in the field is to how to bring the scale to Energy Efficiency on the local, national and global level. Key message: Derisking buildings through green mortgages can help to bring scale to energy…

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