Author: Aristeidis Tsakiris
Buildings get an energy efficiency boost from new regulations in Mexico City
Part of recent efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase sustainability in the Mexico City’s vast urban landscape, the municipal government recently integrated energy efficiency into the city’s latest construction regulations. Both new constructions and existing retrofits were addressed by the update, which was an initiative of Mexico City’s Ministry of the Environment (SEDEMA). The SE4All Building Efficiency Accelerator […]
September 1st, 2016
Asian Development Bank makes record investments in clean energy in 2015
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is changing its lending strategies to reflect the challenge of climate change and sustainable development. Last year, ADB set ambitious targets for investments that respond to climate change, and pledged to double its annual financing for mitigation and adaptation projects to USD 6 billion by 2020. Of this amount, USD 4 billion will be allocated […]
August 15th, 2016
SE4All’s Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform holds seminar during EU Sustainable Energy Week
Increasingly, public officials and governments are showing interest in energy efficiency (EE) actions and have been turning to SE4All to find out how to fit EE into their sustainable energy plans and find private partners to help transform plans into reality. Last June, during the European Union’s Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels, SE4All’s Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform organized a […]
July 15th, 2016
Bloomberg saves USD 2.2 million annually with a new LEED Gold Data Centre
By expanding demand reduction strategies and infrastructure investments, Bloomberg, the international financial software, data and media company, has committed to achieving 50 percent energy efficiency improvement by 2020 as compared to its 2007 baseline. One of the biggest challenges to achieving this goal will be reducing energy consumption at the company’s data centres. Possible energy saving measures under consideration include […]
May 27th, 2016
SE4All – Helping us all go further, faster
The Paris agreement, according to Rachel Kyte, CEO of SE4All, increases the stakes for Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7): Affordable and Clean Energy. ‘What Paris did to the SDG,’ she explained during a briefing at the United Nations headquarters in New York last March, ‘is make it even more urgent that we get going on an energy transition that […]
May 26th, 2016
World Bank and ADB provide loans for energy efficiency in India
In 2015, India pledged to reduce the energy intensity of its economy by 33 to 35 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The Indian government has also found that increased energy efficiency is critical to containing energy demand without jeopardising the country’s growth. Now India’s ambitious initiatives have won significant funding support from two major SE4All partners: the World Bank […]
May 26th, 2016
Accelerating Energy Efficiency: From Commitment to Action
By Ligia Noronha, Director, Division of Technology Industry and Economics, United Nations Environment Programme
May 25th, 2016
C2E2 Knowledge Management System Launched
On May 11, SE4All’s new CEO, Rachel Kyte, launched the Copenhagen Centre’s new Knowledge Management System (KMS) at EE Global in Washington DC. This state-of-the-art KMS is a one-stop system for accessing the latest in energy efficiency news, knowledge, publications, databases and tools from around the world. Accessible and user-friendly, the KMS provides targeted information for energy efficiency policy makers […]
May 25th, 2016
Copenhagen Centre at EE Global
The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency participated in a number of different capacities at the EE Global Forum on 11-12 May in Washington, DC. The event, organised by the Alliance to Save Energy, is a well-established annual gathering of energy efficiency leaders that come together to discuss how utilities, regulators, legislators and companies are incorporating cost-effective energy efficiency measures into their operations. Sustainable […]
May 23rd, 2016
New C2E2 Publication Showcases Best Practices in Industrial Energy Efficiency
Globally, industry accounts for about 29 percent of final energy consumption and employs some 23 percent of the world’s workforce. Best Practices and Case Studies for Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvement – An Introduction for Policy Makers is a new Copenhagen Centre publication geared towards countries seeking to implement and accelerate energy efficiency in industry. Designed to support policymakers, the report includes […]
February 19th, 2016