Capacity Building
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- 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…
- Project 22 October 2018 Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) Global Coordination Platform The CBIT Global Coordination Platform keeps track of national CBIT projects and addresses any lack of national transparency capacities and limited coordination efforts. The aim of this project is to address the lack of a global coordination platform for information sharing and knowledge management on the enhanced transparency framework, as defined by the article 13 of the Paris Agreement. Many developing countries are facing similar challenges and currently there does not exist a platform or…
- News 18 October 2018 Two awards for Chinese district energy projects Two projects creating efficient district energy have won awards for Demonstration of energy efficient district energy systems in China. Both projects were designed in their initial phase by Zhuolun Chen, senior advisor at UNEP DTU Partnership's Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency. The awards were given by the China Association of Building Energy Efficiency - China District Energy Association in September 2018 and were given to a total of six projects. As the only two projects, the two…
- News 18 October 2018 Two awards for Chinese district energy projects Two projects creating efficient district energy have won awards for Demonstration of energy efficient district energy systems in China. Both projects were designed in their initial phase by Zhuolun Chen, senior advisor at UNEP DTU Partnership's Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency. The awards were given by the China Association of Building Energy Efficiency - China District Energy Association in September 2018 and were given to a total of six projects. As the only two projects, the two…
- News 17 October 2018 Kicking-off TNA round three The third round of the Technology Needs Assessment Project (TNA III), has been officially started today, during a kick-off workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Implemented by UN Environment and executed by UNEP DTU Partnership, this new round of TNAs assists 23 developing countries in determining their technology priorities regarding mitigation and adaptation to climate change. TNAs are a significant instrument in developing countries efforts to not only determine which technologies best suit their…
- Project 17 October 2018 Implementation of Adaptation projects with UN Environment Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)/Adaptation Fund (AF) In collaboration with UN Environment’s Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI), UNEP DTU has provided implementation support to twelve Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and two Adaptation Fund (AF) adaptation projects in Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Gambia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Rwanda and Tanzania, totalling more than $50 million in funding. The projects covered a wide range of adaptation issues, including implementation Ecosystem Based Adaptation, Integrated Coastal Zone…
- News 17 October 2018 Kicking-off TNA round three The third round of the Technology Needs Assessment Project (TNA III), has been officially started today, during a kick-off workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Implemented by UN Environment and executed by UNEP DTU Partnership, this new round of TNAs assists 23 developing countries in determining their technology priorities regarding mitigation and adaptation to climate change. TNAs are a significant instrument in developing countries efforts to not only determine which technologies best suit their…
- Project 15 October 2018 INDC Support Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are key to saving our climate. As well as being a crucial part of the global climate negotiations, they are also complicated documents caught in the crossfire between policy, science, finance and necessity. UNEP DTU Partnership along with UN Environment are providing support to developing countries with development and implementation of NDCs and the previous INDCs (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions). The actions contained in all NDCs…