Secretariat - Green Climate Fund. Howard Bamsey, Executive Director Howard Bamsey is the Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund.
He was appointed by the GCF Board at its 14th meeting and took office on 10 January 2017. Coalition for Advancing Low Carbon Fuels Launches at COP22. A massive scale-up in renewable energy deployment is vital to fully decarbonize the global energy system by 2050, which is required to meet the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and keep global temperature rise to 2 degrees celsius.
At the COP22 Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, a 20-country coalition launched a new initiative to help decarbonize the transport and industry sectors through modern, sustainable low-carbon biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels. Clean Energy Ministerial Secretariat finds new home at the IEA. (Paris) — 15 June 2016.
Pocketbook energy 2016 web final final 1. Myremote Teleworking. ECN - Your energy. Our passion. Energy Innovation Board. My full speech at the #SETPlan16 conference emphasising the role of energy innovation #CleanEnergyEU. European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations - Energy diplomacy: Commissioner Arias Cañete participates in the Euro-Mediterranean Forum on Energy. Effective information measures to promote energy use reduction in eu member states on line. Horizon steel debate: can the industry go green? What’s standing in the way of the steel industry becoming more sustainable?
Wendel Trio: ‘When governments reached the Paris Agreement (in December 2015), they took upon themselves a huge challenge to keep (the global) temperature rise well below 2 Celsius and even limit it to 1.5 C. That challenge is bigger for certain sectors than others. Publication: Key World Energy Statistics 2016. Cash, Jobs And Better Health: How Renewables Can Give Tunisia’s Economy A Lift #climate #Tunisia2020. Looking Ahead with Advanced Biofuels. Today’s modern world is one defined by mobility.
From people commuting across a city for work or traversing the globe for an annual holiday, to industries shipping raw materials and final products, transportation is at the core of so many things we do. Unfortunately this freedom relies on a transport sector that accounts for around a third of the world’s energy use, half of its oil consumption and a fifth of its greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve the goal of reducing global CO2 emissions and adverting irreversible climate change, the world must look to a host of sustainable transport options, including advanced liquid biofuels — fuels derived from feedstocks as agriculture residues, woody material and algae — to provide a practical fossil fuel alternative for powering airplanes, ships, and heavy freight trucks.
Meeting our goals Encouraging benefits. Innovation Outlook: Advanced Liquid Biofuels. Countries - Eurogia. Compact of Mayors. Covenant of Mayors - Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy. Heralded as the “world’s biggest urban climate and energy initiative” by Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, the Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy brings together thousands of local and regional authorities voluntarily committed to implementing EU climate and energy objectives on their territory.
New signatories now pledge to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 40% by 2030 and to adopt an integrated approach to tackling mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy - LeafletLeaflet introducing the Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and the benefits of joining. A high-definition PDF is available upon request. New 2030 Framework and Integration of Adaptation. The Agency. Page Content The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), a European Union Agency, was created by the Third Energy Package to further progress the completion of the internal energy market both for electricity and natural gas.
ACER was officially launched in March 2011, and has its seat in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The International Energy Efficiency Scorecard. The 2012 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard ranks 12 of the world's largest economies, representing over 78 percent of global gross domestic product, 63 percent of global energy consumption, and 62 percent of the global carbon-dioxide-equivalent emissions.
The rankings include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union. Over 25 different energy efficiency indicators or "metrics" have been analyzed for each economy ranked in the report. The rankings are determined by a total score out of 100 possible points. Spanish EUREKA Chair. Spain is a EUREKA founding member country taking over the network’s chairmanship for the third time.
The Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) is a Spanish public organisation, under the Ministry of Science and Innovation, whose objective is to help Spanish companies to increase their technological profile. CDTI manages the Spanish participation in EUREKA including the responsibility of approving and financing projects.In the last years, Spain has been an engine of project submission and participation. WorldEnergyOutlook2016ExecutiveSummaryEnglish. A delicate balance between water demand and the low-carbon energy transition. 15 November 2016 Biofuels production, concentrating solar power, carbon capture and storage and nuclear power can have significant water demands (Photograph © Graphic Obsession)
About us. The Directorate-General for Energy is one of 33 policy-specific departments in the European Commission. Ten Tough Interview Questions and Ten Great Answers - CollegeGrad.com. The best way to prepare yourself for the interview is to know what questions may be coming and practice in advance. The following are some of the most difficult questions you will face in the course of your job interviews. Some questions may seem rather simple on the surface—such as "Tell me about yourself"—but these questions can have a variety of answers. Climate Change - United Nations Sustainable Development. Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. People are experiencing the significant impacts of climate change, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea level, and more extreme weather events.
The greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are driving climate change and continue to rise. They are now at their highest levels in history. Energy - United Nations Sustainable Development. EnergyFlorencia Soto Nino2016-08-17T17:44:54+00:00 Share this story, choose your platform! Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces today. Be it for jobs, security, climate change, food production or increasing incomes, access to energy for all is essential. Sustainable energy is opportunity – it transforms lives, economies and the planet. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is leading a Sustainable Energy for All initiative to ensure universal access to modern energy services, improve efficiency and increase use of renewable sources. One in five people still lacks access to modern electricity3 billion people rely on wood, coal, charcoal or animal waste for cooking and heatingEnergy is the dominant contributor to climate change, accounting for around 60 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissionsReducing the carbon intensity of energy is a key objective in long-term climate goals.
Dealing with details in Marrakesh. Tracking climate expenditure en. Mission Impossible? Five Challenges Facing 'Mission Innovation', the Global Clean Energy Innovation Drive. Hannon, Matthew (2016) Mission Impossible? Sweden on target to run entirely on renewable energy by 2040. Renewable energy capacity overtakes coal. Image copyright Getty Images The International Energy Agency says that the world's capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources has now overtaken coal.
The IEA says in a new report that last year, renewables accounted for more than half of the increase in power capacity. The report says half a million solar panels were installed every day last year around the world. In China, it says, there were two wind turbines set up every hour. Renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydro are seen as a key element in international efforts to combat climate change. At this stage, it is the capacity to generate power that has overtaken coal, rather than the amount of electricity actually produced.
Renewables are intermittent - they depend on the sun shining or the wind blowing, for example, unlike coal which can generate electricity 24 hours a day all year round. So renewable technologies inevitably generate a lot less than their capacity. Even so it is striking development. InnoEnergy – pioneering change in sustainable energy. Fuel cell and Hydrogen JTI. Introduction The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) is a unique public private partnership supporting research, technological development and demonstration (RTD) activities in fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies in Europe. Its aim is to accelerate the market introduction of these technologies, realising their potential as an instrument in achieving a carbon-lean energy system. Fuel cells, as an efficient conversion technology, and hydrogen, as a clean energy carrier, have a great potential to help fight carbon dioxide emissions, to reduce dependence on hydrocarbons and to contribute to economic growth.
The objective of the FCH JU is to bring these benefits to Europeans through a concentrated effort from all sectors. 2016 rtd 001 energy union research strategy en.