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- News 25 November 2015 NAMAcademy expands with courses at home and abroad Demand is growing for the unique programme at UNEP DTU’s NAMAcademy. When it was launched in 2012, the academy’s six-day intensive course on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) was held only once a year. In 2015, not only were there two resident courses onsite in Denmark, but also an in-country course in Mozambique. NAMAcademy offers week long intensive courses and private coaching to public officials and other project developers on the ins and outs of NAMA design and formulation…
- News 24 November 2015 TNA project’s second phase in full swing First draft reports are already being submitted from some of the 26 countries participating in the second phase of the Technology Needs Assessment project (TNA Phase II), which started up in January 2015. The project’s second phase was officially launched May 27 and 28 at a workshop in Bangkok organized in collaboration with UNEP, CTCN and UNFCCC. In addition to presentations by national coordinators for TNA Phase II, coordinators from TNA’s first phase were invited to share their experiences…
- News 15 October 2015 NAMAcademy conducts fourth training course in Denmark NAMAcademy, a project run by UNEP DTU Partnership concluded its fourth residential workshop in Denmark last week. The NAMAcademy is at the forefront of providing capacity building and hands-on assistance to those working on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or NAMAs, and train those focused on structuring NAMAs to attract finance in an attempt to take these from concept to implementation. Attended by 10 participants from 6 countries, the NAMAcademy course helped to provide guidance and…
- News 14 October 2015 C2E2 co-organizes 6th International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) co-organised the 6th International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development from 29 September – 2 October in Yerevan, Armenia. More than 250 government officials and experts from 50 countries participated in the forum. The Forum is one of the important events of the UN Decade of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) 2014-2024. Like the 2014 Forum in Hammamet, the Forum emphasized attaining the three objectives of the SE4All Initiative of the UN…
- News 7 September 2015 New Publication on Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Launched UNEP DTU Partnership and CTCN have launched a new publication ‘Good practice in Designing and Implementing National Monitoring Systems for Adaptation to Climate Change’. The report reviews lessons arising from the developing field of building indicator systems for monitoring and evaluating climate change adaptation at the national level, as well as experiences from implementing such systems. International good practices for the design and implementation of national monitoring and evaluation (M…
- News 14 August 2015 UDP conducts webinar on Technology Prioritisation and Multi Criteria Assessment UNEP DTU Partnership conducted a webinar on Technology Prioritization and Multi Criteria Assessment as part of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) webinar series on 12 August. The webinar aimed to give an introduction on Multi Criteria Assessment and covered examples for both climate change mitigation and adaptation. The target audience for this webinar are public sector officials, civil societies, NGOs, private sector, and students. Through interactive Q&A sessions,…
- News 27 April 2015 TNA project notes successful outcomes in Moldova When the first phase of the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project drew to a close in April 2013, Moldova was one of the 36 participating countries that had benefited from the project to identify what kinds of technologies are best suited to their climate change needs. The GEF-funded program, which is implemented by UNEP with the collaboration of UNEP-DTU Partnership, helps countries assess their needs for new equipment, techniques, knowledge, and skills that will both mitigate greenhouse…
- News 24 April 2015 High level Ministerial dialogue at ACF 2015 Marrakech, Morocco, 15 April 2015 - The high level ministerial dialogue of the Seventh African Carbon Forum was convened, under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, in Marrakesh, Morocco on 15 April 2015. The dialogue was chaired by the H.E. Ms. Hakima El Haite, Delegate Minister in charge of the Environment of Morocco. H.E. Hakima El Haite, Mr. Richard Kinley, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Ambassador Stephane…