• Webinar & E-Learning 7 November 2019 How Cloud computing helps build intelligent solutions to benefit the environment (Presentation) At a large scale, datacenters can help advance a clean energy future. Sharing resources, efficiency of operations, controlling your hardware and software and not least a real commercially backed commitment to investments, innovations are at the center of this drive toward ambitious sustainability targets.
• News 5 November 2019 UNEP DTU Partnership expert joins adaptation board Promoting climate adaptation action and help local communities adapt to the devastating impacts of climate change, the African Development Bank has appointed a group of renowned experts, among them UNEP DTU Partnership senior advisor Fatima-Zahra Taibi, to the executive board of the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism (ABM). The ABM board is being assisted by an interim secretariat, which is placed in the Bank’s Climate Change and Green Growth department, headed by the director Dr. Anthony Nyong. “We…
• News 31 October 2019 Why should countries conduct a TNA? By Jonathan Duwyn, UNEP From bringing decision-makers and stakeholders from different sectors together, to helping defining investment priorities, the Technology Needs Assessment is a process that has the potential to offer many benefits to developing countries. Firstly, the Technology Needs Assessment processhelps countries strengthen their coordination of climate change issues and existing committees or structures established to facilitate climate planning. It strengthens the knowledge and…
• 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 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…
• News 9 September 2019 Asia Can Lead Global Transformation towards Low Carbon and Resilience Asia-Pacific Climate Week in Bangkok, Thailand (APCW 2019) wrapped up on Friday, with participants agreeing  on what steps urgently need to be taken for the region to be able to profit from the advantages of the transition to low carbon and to be able to build resilience to the worst impacts of climate change. The compelling social and economic reasons to rapidly shift to low carbon and resilience were outlined by high-level speakers who warned that current levels of ambition to tackle…
• Event 9 September 2019 Pathways to Increasing the Rate of Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency remains the cheapest, easiest step to help reach Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) on clean and affordable energy for all while simultaneously decarbonizing the global economy, cleaning the air we breathe, and expanding energy access. However, on the eve of the final decade to achieve the SDGs, we are still missing the mark on investment needed for energy efficiency. In addition, the pace of progress of improving energy intensity is declining. We need to look towards…

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