clean energy Archives - United Nations Sustainable Development /sustainabledevelopment/blog/tag/clean-energy/ 17 Goals to Transform Our World Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:45:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 In Vienna, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ chief calls for more clean energy investment /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2018/05/in-vienna-un-chief-calls-for-more-clean-energy-investment/ Tue, 15 May 2018 15:54:09 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=49705 Calling for a new energy revolution to address the challenge of climate change, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-General António Guterres said, in remarks at the Austrian World Summit in Vienna today, that the world must build on a great many solutions that already exist or are in the pipeline. “In the past decade, prices for renewables have plummeted [...]

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]]> COP23: Itaipu Binacional director on how hydropower reduces emissions /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2017/11/cop23-itaipu-binacional-director-on-how-hydropower-reduces-emissions/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:55:52 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=34785 The post COP23: Itaipu Binacional director on how hydropower reduces emissions appeared first on United Nations Sustainable Development.

]]> New initiatives in energy, water and agriculture sectors announced as Action Days begin /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2017/11/new-initiatives-in-energy-water-and-agriculture-sectors-announced-as-action-days-begin/ Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:49:35 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=34567 In Bonn, new initiatives were announced to push forward the transition to renewable energy and to show that more ambitious clean energy development can quickly become a bigger part of national climate plans submitted under the Paris Agreement.

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]]> Call for applications for US$1M sustainable energy grant /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/05/call-for-applications-for-us1m-sustainable-energy-grant/ Wed, 04 May 2016 21:06:38 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=17233 Applications are open to individuals, institutions or partnerships based on past and current achievements.

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]]> Ban: Global investors must play full role in shift to clean energy /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/01/ban-global-investors-must-play-full-role-in-shift-to-clean-energy/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 22:18:07 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=15195 More than 500 global investors gathered at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Headquarters to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to move the world onto the path of clean energy, with Ban Ki-moon challenging them to, at a minimum, double clean energy investments to $660 billion by 2020.

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