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- News 10 September 2020 United in Science report: Climate Change has not stopped for COVID-19 Climate change has not stopped for COVID19. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are at record levels and continue to increase, with emissions heading in the direction of pre-pandemic levels. The world is set to see its warmest five years on record – in a trend which is likely to continue - and is not on track to meet agreed targets to keep global temperature increase well below 2 °C or at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. These are some of the findings of United in Science 2020, a…
- News 8 September 2020 Trinidad and Tobago - an integrated approach to NDCs and TNA UNEP DTU Partnership recently asked the National Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Coordinator for Trinidad and Tobago, Kishan Kumarsingh, about his country's approach to TNA. Mr Kumarsingh is Head of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Unit at the Ministry of Planning and Development. "Given that climate change is mainly a development issue, the TNA process is not a standalone process. It should be viewed as an opportunity to identify, assess, adapt, adopt, synergise, and implement…
- News 17 July 2020 Focus on efficient cooling in post-pandemic recovery plans Global temperature rise fosters increased need for cooling The Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report, which launches today, estimates that some 3.6 billion cooling appliances are currently in use worldwide. Yet, if cooling is provided to everyone who needs it – and not just those who can afford it – this would require as many as 14 billion cooling appliances by 2050. Download the report here The COVID-19 pandemic underlines the essential nature of cooling services as lockdowns force…
- Webinar & E-Learning 8 July 2020 Beyond Energy Efficiency - Life Cycle Based Data Centre Sustainability (Webinar) – 02.07.2020 Digital Climate Emergency Series - EP.2 As the role of data centre keeps increasing, so will concerns over its huge energy use, increased energy cost, associated impacts on climate change and more corporate social responsibility pressures. In recent years, the data center industry has made excellent progress in enhancing energy efficiency and adopting renewable energy sources. However, a sole focus on energy efficiency may cause burden shifting and overlook other relevant environmental problems…
- News 29 June 2020 New publication: Regional Technology Brief Latin America & the Caribbean TNA work in the Latin America & Caribbean region Since 2009, close to a hundred developing countries have joined the project, of which 22 are in Latin America and the Caribbean. Technical assistance, capacity-building and guidance are being provided by UNEP and UNEP DTU Partnership through their Regional Centres for the TNA project, which in Latin America and the Caribbean include Fundación Bariloche (Argentina), Libélula (Peru) and currently the University of the West Indies, located in…
- Project 26 June 2020 Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency - Sustainable Datacentres and ICT The project is led by the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency and serves as a global platform to share best practices of energy efficient solutions in data centres, provide policy recommendations to policy makers and foster transformational collaboration among various public and private stakeholders in the global data centre industry. It is founded on the basis that exponential increase in the amount of data demand and production is driving the request for more digital processing and storage…
- Event 23 June 2020 Digital Climate Emergency Series - Beyond Energy Efficiency - Life Cycle Based Data Centre Sustainability EP.2 (Webinar) July 2, 2020, 11 AM - 12:45 PM CEST As the role of data centre keeps increasing, so will concerns over its huge energy use, increased energy cost, associated impacts on climate change and more corporate social responsibility pressures. In recent years, the data center industry has made excellent progress in enhancing energy efficiency and adopting renewable energy sources. However, a sole focus on energy efficiency may cause burden shifting and overlook other relevant environmental problems…
- News 13 May 2020 First Virtual workshop on NDC transparency The first virtual workshop hosted by UNEP DTU Partnership took place on the 23rd to 24th of April as part of the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) technical training in Vietnam. Based on the reporting and transparency requirements in the Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement, ICAT methodologies and the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Cost Model (GACMO) was introduced by experts from UNEP DTU Partnership and ICAT partner The Italian Institute for Environmental…