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- Event 25 February 2025 Webinar: Scaling Clean Cooking in Schools Many schools in East Africa, schools supported by the World Food Programme (WFP), still rely on traditional three-stone fires for meal preparation. This practice not only is a major source of GHG emissions, household air pollution and driver deforestation but also burdens local communities, especially women and children who gather firewood. Furthermore, it impacts food security, with undercooked meals affecting students' nutrition. This webinar, organized in collaboration with WFP, explores…
- Webinar & E-Learning 24 February 2025 ESCO in Ukraine: 8 Years of Progress and Resilience Amid War (Webinar) - 30.01.2025 An in-depth discussion on how the ESCO mechanism has been pivotal in advancing energy modernization in Ukraine’s municipal sector over the past eight years, even amidst the unprecedented challenges of wartime. This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of the foundational ESCO legislation in Ukraine, emphasizing the state and municipal guarantees that ensure investment returns for ESCO companies—facilitating the successful implementation of over 700 energy performance contracts worth more…
- Event 20 February 2025 Webinar: Reimagining Urban Growth: Scaling Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient Cities Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the transformative potential of nature-based solutions in fast-growing cities. As urbanization accelerates, NbS offers a promising path to address the challenges of climate change and urban resilience. This session will dive into how NbS can be scaled effectively, overcoming existing barriers to implementation. UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre's expertise gathered through extensive knowledge-sharing activities and the development of two key publications…
- News 18 February 2025 Pakistan and Germany hold high-level meeting for carbon market strengthening Prominent government leaders from Pakistan and Germany met during a high-level bilateral meeting organized at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination (MoCC&EC), to discuss shared goals for strengthening Pakistan’s carbon market rules and regulations, policies, integrity and infrastructure. This bilateral meeting was held under the patronage of Secretary (In charge) MoCC&EC, Ms. Aisha Humaera, who stated that she hopes that the technical expertise and capacity…
- News 17 February 2025 UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre launches groundbreaking energy efficiency initiative in Mauritius The UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, in collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Management Office (EEMO) of the Ministry of Energy in Mauritius has initiated the first stages of the De-risking Facility for Energy Performance Contracting project, aimed at overcoming financial barriers to energy efficiency investments through energy performance contracting in Mauritius. Designed in 2023 through the GEF funded project Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions for Low Carbon Island Development…
- 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 17 February 2025 Mutual Learning Programme fosters collaboration and confidence among Eurasia, Central Asia and Caucasus networks At the end of 2024 all parties to the Paris Agreement were required to submit their first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), detailing their progress towards the mitigation ambitions outlined in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). As technically complex documents requiring accurate and consistent data reporting many developing countries face human and technical capacity constraints and no previous experience in compiling and submitting their first BTRs. Recognising the need for…
- News 17 February 2025 Diverse support modalities bring rewards for climate transparency cooperation As of December 31, 2024, 46 countries submitted their BTRs with direct CBIT-GSP support, ranging from hands-on guidance for all elements of the BTR, to quality checks prior to submission. Many more countries benefited from other CBIT-GSP support modalities including regional in-person trainings, online workshops and ample webinars, primarily delivered through its ten Transparency Networks, two of which are implemented with the support of UNDP. Transparency Networks are geographic and linguistic…