The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) or German Corporation for International Cooperation GmbH is a German development agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation. GIZ mainly implements technical cooperation projects of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), although it also works with the private sector and other national and supranational government organizations on a public benefit basis. In its activities GIZ seeks to follow the paradigm of sustainable development, which aims at economic development through social inclusion and environmental protection.
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The regulatory framework for independent aggregators
The importance of independent aggregators has been acknowledged in the recently adopted EU Clean Energy Package (CEP). The CEP obliges all Member States to...
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A framework for electricity grid data exchange and reuse for AI foundation models : reflections on five implementation aspects
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European and global climate policies : pursuing fairness and carbon neutrality in an increasingly fragmented world
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