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UNECE developed this Smart Sustainable City Profile of Podgorica to help the city realize its vision of becoming smart and sustainable. The analysis was based on the results of an evaluation of the city's performance against the UN4SSC Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities, a desk review of relevant national and local development plans and face-to-face interviews with national
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Digitalization is gaining more and more attention as a way to support and complement the energy transition process. Digitalization entails the use of digital technologies for existing processes, as it helps address existing challenges in new ways.
While using an integrated energy system with intelligent connected devices has many advantages, it also causes challenges. One of these challenges is
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The sixth compilation of the SDG 7 Policy Briefs, titled "Ensuring Universal Energy Access and Advancing Just, Inclusive and Equitable Energy Transitions," prepared by the SDG 7 Technical Advisory Group (SDG7 TAG), in support of the review of the SDGs at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2023.
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This UN-Energy Policy Brief was prepared in support of the SDG7 review at the High-level Political Forum 2023 in line with the UN-Energy Plan of Action Towards 2025. The Plan outlines UN-Energy’s contributions towards the implementation of the Global Action Plan for Accelerated SDG 7 Action presented by the UN Secretary-General as an outcome of the UN High-level Dialogue on Energy in 2021. The
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This case study addresses the challenge of distributed energy resources integration to support grid resilience, identifying key infrastructure requirements, assessing policy developments and deriving recommendations. The underlying premise of this case study asserts that whilst the energy sector is making advances towards decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization, the increasing share
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Hydrogen is an energy carrier that can decarbonize economies and promote sustainable economic growth and system resilience. Although many low-emission hydrogen projects have been announced over the past two years, a mere 4% of them have reached a final investment decision. This indicates that achieving the scale and pace of hydrogen deployment requires more decisive actions from policymakers and
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This publication contains a background note for the thematic workshop on promoting circularity in rebuilding Ukrainian cities, organized on 25 November 2022. The first part covers key challenges faced by cities in Ukraine, as well as key national legal acts and regulations relevant to circularity, key organizations and data, and key national and local programmes in place before and during the war
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This publication is a guidance document for establishing Geneva UN Charter Centres of Excellence to implement the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing. It provides guidelines for the mode of work of the Centres and the organization of communication between the Centres, the Housing and Land Management secretariat and the Committee.
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This publication contains the results of a survey on improving housing affordability in the UNECE region, conducted in 2020. The UNECE Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management (CUDHLM) organized this survey to explore the views of UNECE member States on key challenges, policies and needs in relation to housing affordability. The aim was to inform the UNECE secretariat how it
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The Country Profile on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management of the Republic of San Marino is meant to help the country realize its vision of harnessing the full potential of information and communications technology (ICT) to further improve the quality of life of its inhabitants following an environment-driven development agenda.
This Country Profile provides a strategic analysis of the
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Transitioning towards a clean energy future is a core element of global efforts to achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. The technologies underpinning that transition to low-carbon energy systems – such as wind, solar photovoltaic (PV), electric motors and batteries – are more minerals-intensive than fossil fuel-based technologies, however. As a result, the energy transition implies a
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In view of their high untapped potential, bioenergy, hydro, solar and wind generation could constitute the building blocks of Ukraine’s future energy system, contributing up to nearly 80% of total energy generation by 2050. Provided key strategies and investments are put in place, and complemented by nuclear, renewables could propel Ukraine towards a carbon-neutral future. These are the main
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The Smart Sustainable City Profile of Tbilisi aims to showcase the progress of Tbilisi in its transition to becoming a smart and sustainable in the context of SDG 11 and other urban-related SDGs with the overall aim of assisting the city in realizing its ambitious vision of becoming one of the leading smart sustainable cities in the UNECE region. The Profile delivers a comprehensive set of policy
- Pусский
На своей восемьдесят второй сессии Комитет по градостроительству, жилищному хозяйству и землепользованию (КГЖХЗ) одобрил Руководящие принципы для разработки добровольных местных обзоров в регионе ЕЭК (ECE/HBP/2021/4) и предложил секретариату обновить эти руководящие принципы на основе результатов их тестирования в пилотных городах и отзывов соответствующих заинтересованных сторон и учреждений
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At its eighty-second session, the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management (CUDHLM) endorsed the Guidelines for the development of Voluntary Local Reviews in the ECE Region (ECE/HBP/2021/4) and invited the secretariat to update the Guidelines based on the outcomes of their testing in pilot cities and on feedback from relevant stakeholders and United Nations agencies (ECE/HBP/
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The Smart Sustainable Cities Profile: Grodno presents the outcome of the evaluation of Grodno against the UNECE/ITU Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on Smart Sustainable Cities (SSC).
The publication provides recommendations to support the commitment of Grodno to becoming smarter and more sustainable and the successful achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for
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可持续发展的多方面要求主要取决于负责任的最优自然资源生产和利用。为 满足均衡开发自然资源的要求，需要自然资源生产和利用的新范式，包括向 循环经济迈进。联合国资源管理系统是支持落实《2030年可持续发展议程》 的综合性可持续资源管理框架。 联合国资源管理系统以全球范围内广为接受的《联合国资源框架分类》为基 础，包含了透过社会－环境－经济可行性、技术可行性和资源估计可信度三 重视角评估资源的一套独特方法论。联合国资源管理系统是公共、公私和民 间社会伙伴关系框架下的可持续综合性资源管理的一种自愿性全球标准。
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Многогранные требования устойчивого развития в основном зависят от оптимального и ответственного использования природных ресурсов. Чтобы реализовать потребность в сбалансированном освоении природных ресурсов, требуется новая парадигма добычи и использования природных ресурсов, включая переход к экономике замкнутого цикла. Система управления ресурсами Организации Объединенных Наций (СУРООН)
- Français
Pour satisfaire aux exigences multiformes du développement durable, il faut avant tout utiliser les ressources naturelles de manière optimale et responsable. Il est nécessaire de mettre en place un nouveau paradigme de production et d’utilisation des ressources naturelles, et notamment de progresser vers un modèle d’économie circulaire, si nous voulons parvenir à un développement équilibré des
- Español
Los requisitos pluridimensionales del desarrollo sostenible dependen principalmente del uso óptimo y responsable de los recursos naturales. Se requiere un nuevo paradigma de producción y utilización de los recursos naturales, lo que incluye avanzar hacia una economía circular, para asumir la necesidad de un desarrollo equilibrado de dichos recursos. El Sistema de las Naciones Unidas para la