New studies released by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) provide a clear path for staying below the danger threshold of an average temperature rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. Its content explains how the emission cuts that are necessary in order to avoid even higher temperatures in the future could be [...]
28 Oct 2010
by Ulrike Lehr - Category: DIREC
The side event was supported by the German Federal Environment Ministry. It hosted a panel of four speakers, Dr. Mario Ragwitz ( Fraunhofer ISI, Germany) and Dr. Ulrike Lehr (Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung, Germany) who presented two studieson the costs and overall economic benefits of increasing renewable energy in the past and gave a future [...]
How can productive activities help the world to develop and progress? How can the interaction between industry and development create practical and innovative solutions for a sustainable future? UNIDO’s new magazine, Making It: Industry for Development, aims to throw some light on these and other matters; to stimulate reflection and debate on both the challenges [...]