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- News 26 January 2016 UDP facilitates Technology Prioritization at CTCN Namibia Workshop The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) together with Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (Namibia) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, South Africa) held a workshop on the identification and prioritization of technologies to address water scarcity and climate change impacts in Windhoek, Namibia. UNEP DTU Partnership provided substantial inputs to the workshop by facilitating the prioritization of technologies using Multi criteria Analysis (MCA). The…
- News 25 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 of …
- 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 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 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 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…
- News 14 October 2015 C2E2 co-organizes 6th International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) co-organised the 6th International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development from 29 September – 2 October in Yerevan, Armenia. More than 250 government officials and experts from 50 countries participated in the forum. The Forum is one of the important events of the UN Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) 2014-2024. Like the 2014 Forum in Hammamet, the Forum emphasized attaining the three objectives of the SE4All Initiative of the UN…
- News 12 September 2015 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum concludes Santiago de Chile, 11 September 2015 – The 9th Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF 2015) concluded today in Santiago de Chile, where key business and government representatives from across the region discussed the use of market-based mechanisms and other forms of carbon pricing and climate finance. The Forum called for their inclusion as mitigation and development tools in the new global climate deal expected from Paris at the end of this year. Following the recent negotiations…