• Publication 5 November 2025 Stories from the Technology Needs Assessments 2025
• Webinar & E-Learning 28 July 2025 International ESCO Symposium 2025 - Aggregation and Financing Through Super ESCOs Moderated by Svetlana Adamek (Managing Director, adamek & adamek consulting GmbH), this session explored the role of Super ESCOs in unlocking large-scale energy efficiency investments by aggregating projects, reducing risk, and enabling financing solutions. The panel featured public and private sector leaders from the UAE, Philippines, Canada, Morocco, and Trinidad and Tobago, each sharing their unique SuperESCO models and experiences. Key Insights by Speaker Suhaib Al…
• News 4 July 2024 Trinidad and Tobago secures first GCF funding for carbon capture and storage Trinidad and Tobago has secured support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project, marking the first time the GCF has funded such an initiative. This success is informed by a comprehensive Technology Needs Assessment (TNA), conducted in collaboration with the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. The GCF Readiness project, approved in March 2024, aims to further Trinidad and Tobago's CCS readiness, including assessing storage potential in deep saline formations…
• News 8 September 2020 Trinidad and Tobago - an integrated approach to NDCs and TNA UNEP DTU Partnership recently asked the National Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Coordinator for Trinidad and Tobago, Kishan Kumarsingh, about his country's approach to TNA. Mr Kumarsingh is Head of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements Unit at the Ministry of Planning and Development. "Given that climate change is mainly a development issue, the TNA process is not a standalone process. It should be viewed as an opportunity to identify, assess, adapt, adopt, synergise, and implement…
• Project 27 February 2019 Technology Needs Assessment (phase III) UN Environment and UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, with financing from the Global Environment Facility, are implementing a third phase of Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs), involving 22 countries (2018-2022). This third phase focuses on supporting mostly Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing states. The objective of this phase is to go beyond identifying technology needs narrowly and to work towards investment. The overall objective of the TNA project is to support countries…
• Project 4 December 2018 Capacity Building for Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) This project promoted environmental sustainability in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of nations within the context of Millennium Development Goal number 7. The project also worked in line with the international obligations and related commitments under the various Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) signed by the respective countries. The project enhanced the capacity of ACP countries to implement their respective obligations under MEAs and honour related commitments…
• 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 26 October 2018 Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) The Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) aims to strengthen capacities in developing countries to assess the impacts of their climate policies and actions and to support greater transparency, effectiveness, ambition and trust in climate policies worldwide. The Initiative works with countries to build capacities on understanding and applying tools and approaches to measure, report and verify (MRV) greenhouse gas emissions reductions and adaptation action, as well as to strengthen…