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The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge supports two projects of energy communities in the Valencian Community

2022-06-30T08:33:29+00:0030 de June de 2022|Categories: University News|Tags: , |

The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has presented the results of the first call for grants for pilot projects for small-scale energy communities. In total, 45 projects in 14 autonomous communities will benefit from this measure, of which two will take place in the Valencian Community. The initiative has an investment of 14.7 million euros.    The aim is to promote social [...]

The ‘Valencian Climate Change Agency’ is almost a reality

2022-02-23T15:57:14+00:0023 de February de 2022|Categories: Diffusion, University News|Tags: , |

This monday the Delegate Commission of Ecological Transition and Environmental Sustainability of the Council met, made up of representatives of all the Ministries of the Valencian Government. The meeting has given the green light to the final procedures to make the Valencian Climate Change Agency a reality, a tool that will allow us to respond to the current climate emergency situation.    This Agency is [...]

Green transition only possible without global energy inequality

2022-02-02T09:51:44+00:002 de February de 2022|Categories: Diffusion, University News|Tags: , |

  On the occasion of the 6th EU-African Union Summit to be held in February, the Africa-Europe Foundation, a network of African and European political leaders and civil society personalities, has already organised virtual meetings in advance. One of the topics discussed has been the great energy inequality between the two continents.   The African continent, despite representing in 2019 around 17% of the world's [...]

Discrepancies on the consideration of clean energies in the EU

2022-01-24T12:35:33+00:0024 de January de 2022|Categories: Diffusion, University News|Tags: , |

There is a debate in Europe about which energies can be considered green and which cannot. The European Commission proposed by the end of 2021 that both green energy and gas should be labelled green. The conflict arises from the different positions of the EU countries, which are quite diverse.   For example, Germany opposes green labelling for nuclear energy, but accepts it for natural [...]

Aurora Pedro, in an interview analyzing the impact of the current Covid-19 situation on tourism

2021-12-16T13:31:42+00:0016 de December de 2021|Categories: University News, UV|Tags: , , |

The director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, has given her vision of how tourism will be affected by the current pandemic situation. She has done so in the newspaper InfoLibre, which analyzed how the increase in cases threatens the apparent return to normality of tourism.   Pedro has been very clear about her position, stating that [...]

Interview with Dionisio Ortiz, director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the UPV

2021-11-19T09:55:20+00:0019 de November de 2021|Categories: University News, UPV|Tags: , |

The UPV's School of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (EAMN) has published an interview with Dionisio Ortiz, director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the UPV. His role is to address the challenge of the systematic and transversal adoption of the principles of the green transition in the field of public policies.    In this interview, Ortiz gives an overview of the objectives of [...]

The Chair awards the Final Degree and Master’s Degree Projects on a more sustainable Tourism

2021-09-29T11:34:22+00:0029 de September de 2021|Categories: Contests, Diffusion, University News, UV|Tags: , |

Students who have dealt with any aspect of sustainable tourism in their Bachelor's or Master's Degree Final Project are in luck! The team of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat de València has announced a series of awards to highlight those works on sustainable tourism, green transition, decarbonisation in tourism, circular economy, green financing in tourism and any other related topic. [...]

We participate in the Open Days ‘La UPV responds to the mission València Ciutat Neutra’

2021-09-28T13:39:11+00:0027 de September de 2021|Categories: Conferences, Diffusion, University News, UPV|Tags: , |

On October 7 and 8, 2021, the UPV's open days will be held in the Nexus building of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in response to the València Ciutat Neutra mission. Among the 12 chairs of this university that will join with the aim of proposing initiatives for the decarbonization of Valencia, is the UPV team in the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition. Within [...]

Creativity for the change! Take part in the creative competition ‘Enjoy and respect’ of the Chair at the UV and make sustainable tourism a reality!

2021-09-24T21:59:10+00:0024 de September de 2021|Categories: Contests, University News, UV|Tags: , , , |

We remind you that you can still participate in the competition that the team of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia launched a few weeks ago!  It is aimed at university students from Valencian public universities. The mission of the contestants will be to present in a creative way how they would approach the change towards a more sustainable [...]

The Chair organises the course ‘Tourism, pandemics and climate change. Conflicts and challenges’ at the Summer University in Gandía by the University of Valencia

2021-07-07T12:36:14+00:001 de July de 2021|Categories: Investigation, University News, UV|Tags: , , |

The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition has organized the course Tourism, pandemics and climate change. Conflicts and challenges, which will take place on July 16 at the Summer University in Gandia. Together with the director of the Chair at the University of Valencia, the course will be attended by leading experts such as the executive director of the UNWTO Academy of the World Tourism [...]

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