• Publication 5 November 2025 Stories from the Technology Needs Assessments 2025
• Project 3 October 2025 Governance and Financing Mechanisms for Climate Action in the Lao People's Democratic Republic The Lao People's Democratic Republic is proactively addressing climate change through national strategies and regulations aligned with the Paris Agreement's global objectives. The country’s 9th Five-Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2021-2025) emphasizes disaster readiness and resilience-building, reflecting the nation's commitment to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Its National Green Growth Strategy 2030, established in 2019, focuses on reducing vulnerability to…
• News 10 December 2021 Climate smart agriculture puts food on the table in  Laos In Laos, the agricultural sector accounts for 29.9% of the country’s GDP, and approximately 70-80% of the population is dependent on the sector for its livelihoods. The importance of agriculture to both the people and the economy makes the sector a decisively vulnerable one. Flooding disasters in particular are responsible for yearly losses in agricultural production of hundreds of millions of USD. As climate change is gaining pace and disastrous natural events increase in frequency, putting…
• Project 7 November 2018 CDM Loan Scheme   The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Loan Scheme was conceived as a means to improve the regional distribution of the CDM by enhancing the number of registered CDM activities in under-represented countries. The CDM Loan Scheme has been instrumental to support the increased participation to the CDM by countries with less than 10 registered CDM projects in underrepresented regions. As agreed by Parties at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009 the loans are provided interest-free from…
• Project 7 November 2018 CBIT Transparency Support Team The CBIT Transparency Support Team is a collaborative effort that brings together a team of experts from UNEP DTU Partnership working with the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT). In conjunction with countries around the world the team prepares projects to be presented under the CBIT Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund. The overall objective of collaborative effort is to strengthen the preparation of CBIT projects to be presented to the GEF, by sharing common practices…
• Project 24 September 2018 Technology Needs Assessments (phase I and II) Between 2010 and 2018, UN Environment and UNEP DTU, with financing from the Global Environment Facility, completed two phases of Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) in more than 60 countries. The overall objective was to go beyond identifying technology needs narrowly, work towards investment.  TNAs also present a unique opportunity for countries to track their needs for new equipment, techniques, services, capacities and skills necessary to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In…