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- News 17 February 2025 Carbon market guest lecture at the National University of Sciences & Technology The Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C) programme held an awareness raising session at the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) in Islamabad, to disseminate information about the scope of carbon markets in the country and apprise students of the program’s Research Mentorship Program (RMP). The SPAR6C programme is led by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), with implementation in Pakistan led by UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre and supported by GFA…
- News 7 November 2024 Huge uplift needed on climate adaptation, starting with finance commitment at COP29 As climate impacts intensify and hit the world’s most vulnerable hardest, the Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on finance at COP29. The Adaptation Gap Report is co-produced and co-edited by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Global average temperature rise is approaching 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, and…
- News 18 April 2024 Strengthening NDC and Climate Finance Capacity in Latin America More than 250 people joined a recent UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre training course on NDC finance and proposal development tailored to bolster the capabilities of National Technical Institutions and governments across Latin America. This initiative, a part of the NDC Action Project, aimed to equip participants with the skills necessary to prepare concept notes for submission to financial institutions, a pivotal step in accessing climate finance for NDC implementation. The training sessions…
- News 20 April 2023 Regional Transparency Networks launched around the globe While the climate crisis calls for action and transformations throughout countries, regions and societies, the Paris Agreement requires countries to regularly submit transparency reports from 2024 onwards. These reports enable tracking of where we stand on achieving the global climate goals, and are part of the efforts to increase trust and ambitions. However, these new reporting requirements, also known as the “Enhanced Transparency Framework”, present a significant challenge for most…
- Project 20 April 2023 The Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency – Global Support Programme (CBIT-GSP) UNEP-CCC supports developing countries around the globe in their efforts to meet the new transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement.The CBIT-GSP is global project, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), executed by UNEP and implemented by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. CBIT-GSP is a continuation and merging of two prior global progammes, the CBIT Global Coordination Platform and the Global Support Programme. The Paris Agreement established the Enhanced Transparency…
- News 26 September 2022 The future of climate action transparency What are the next steps for climate action transparency, and how can we use transparency to create a better and more sustainable world for all? Transparency experts and practitioners from around the world attempted to answer these questions and many more at the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Community Meetings in Copenhagen’s UN City last week. The meeting focused on countries’ need for easy-to-use tools to effectively use data and information to drive the implementation of…
- News 28 October 2021 Enhancing finance capacities for the Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP) in Morocco. This month, UNEP DTU Partnership invited Moroccan practitioners from the government, service provider and NGOs to a two-day workshop building capacity for climate action. The aim of the workshop, organised with the help of the Ministry of Environment of Morocco, was to provide a thorough understanding of climate finance, and the tools associated with it, to more effectively address the challenges of the Moroccan Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement. Recordings of the…
- Project 1 October 2021 A Circular Bioeconomy for the Kenyan Dairy Sector (VALORISE) A collaborative research project on the valorisation pathways for sidestreams in the Kenyan dairy industry - from less to more demanding pathwaysThe Global food system is the single largest driver of environmental change, contributing to 24% of global emissions and consuming 70% of the world's blue water. At the same time 2 billion people are live with food insecurity. All this while 24% of calories produced for humans are lost or wasted in the supply chain, and food loss and waste (FLW)…