• Project 27 August 2021 Build Back Better: Using Green and Digital Technologies to Reduce Food Waste at Consumer Level This project aims to Support countries in harnessing green and digital technologies to reduce food waste at consumer level; contribute to the attainment of the SDGs and climate goals; support countries in Building Back Better from the COVID-19 pandemic. Project report Downloads: Full report Full report - Spanish version Fact sheet Technology flyer Webinar presentation     Listen to the podcast "Preventing food waste with tech and policy"     Food waste exacerbates our…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Local stakeholder participation in CDM and new climate mitigation mechanisms – case study of a small scale hydropower project in China Public participation is recognized as a key principle for effective climate governance in Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In Warsaw 2013 the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) decided that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board should collect information on practices for local stakeholder consultation in collaboration with the Designated National Authorities (DNA) Forum and…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Prospects for investment in large-scale, grid-connected solar power in Africa Solar power in Africa is on its way to becoming a market-based commodity, thus escaping the niche for individual electricity supply that is mainly supported by international donor organisations. Significant reductions in the cost of photovoltaic (PV) panels and a 400 percent increase in oil prices since the 1990s have changed the competiveness of solar PV in all markets, ranging from individual households via institutions to mini-grids and grid-connected installations. In volume and investment,…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Review of Solar PV Market Development in East Africa While the diffusion of solar home systems in Kenya has been market-based for some years, the diffusion of PV in most other Sub-Saharan African countries has been driven by government and donor-supported projects aimed at serving specific needs for electricity while at the same time creating a national niche market for PV. This practice is rapidly changing and, as in industrialised countries, there is evidence of a transition towards more market-based diffusion and private-sector involvement for…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Climate Change mitigation opportunities in the Energy sector for the Caribbean region The “Climate change mitigation opportunities in the energy sector for the Caribbean region” has been prepared as part of the implementation of the Caribbean Regional Subcomponent of the MEAs Program for Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP MEAs)1. The study has being executed with the collaboration of a team of experts from CUBAENERGIA 2 and UNEP Risø Centre3.The objectives of the study are twofold, the provision of support to Caribbean Countries to actively consider participation in the…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Economics of forest and forest carbon projects. Translating lessons learned into national REDD+ implementation The financial implications of implementing a new forest management paradigm have not been well understood and have often been underestimated. Resource needs for e.g., stakeholder consultation, capacity building and addressing the political economy are seldom fully accounted for in the resource needs estimates put forward in connection to REDD+. This report investigates the economics of implementing forest and REDD+ projects through eight case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia,…
• Publication 16 August 2021 Assessing Support Activities by International Donors for CDM Development in Sub-Saharan Africa with Focus on Selected Least Developed Countries This report assesses capacity building activities of multilateral organisations as well as individual Annex I countries in selected Least Developed Countries (LDC) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In the context of the ongoing research project “Integrating Africa’s Least Developed Countries into the Global Carbon Market”, commissioned by the German Environment Ministry (BMU), it represents an interim step: it paints the picture of an overall donor activities map of the region, while an in-depth…
• Publication 16 August 2021 What is a fair price for carbon credits?

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