• News 14 May 2024 Creating a market for off-grid e-cooking in Africa Today, nearly four in five people in Africa cook their meals over open fires and traditional stoves, using wood, charcoal, animal dung, and other polluting fuels. This has dire impacts on health, gender equality and the environment, with women and children bearing the worst consequences. At the same time, cooking with biomass such as wood and charcoal amounts for as much as 2% of all CO2 emissions, while the extensive reliance on wood for cooking is contributing to deforestation, worsening the…
• Project 1 May 2024 Socially Inclusive Energy Transition for Indonesia (SISET) Developing countries are undergoing green energy transitions, longer-term energy planning processes, and defining net-zero emission targets. Energy transitions cannot be considered in isolation from the broader socio-economic system. The shift away from fossil-fuels to new renewable energy solutions will have interactions and feedback effects also on the wider economy. The extent to which countries can benefit or miss out on opportunities from energy transition will also depend on their…
• Project 1 May 2024 Transition of Cities Towards Net Zero Transport in Developing Countries The Paris Agreement establishes a mechanism to fight climate change by contributing to the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2019, GHG emissions from Transport accounted for about 23% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, of which 70% are from road transport. Thus, urban transport is vital for mitigating GHG emissions within road transport. Even more so in fast-developing Asian and African cities, where rapid urbanization has resulted in a very high demand for motorized…
• News 23 January 2024 Kick-starting the market for e-cooking for displaced people and host communities UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is helping to design a new financing model to boost access to clean energy for displaced populations. Energy poverty among displaced populations in low-income countries is a major challenge leading to deforestation, relatively high greenhouse emissions and a range of risks to human life and health. This includes indoor air pollution, conflict with local communities and violent crimes committed against women and children who are often responsible for collecting…
• News 8 September 2023 A stocktake: From technology needs to implementation Enhancing the development, transfer and uptake of technology is a key pillar of the international response to climate change. Developing countries’ efforts to conduct effective Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) and implement their prioritized technologies, has become instrumental to the UNFCCC implementation efforts. In an official side event at the Africa Climate Week panellists discussed how to overcome the implementation gap enhancing the development, transfer and uptake of climate…
• News 8 September 2023 A Stocktake: From Technology Needs to Implementation Enhancing the development, transfer and uptake of technology is a key pillar of the international response to climate change. Developing countries’ efforts to conduct effective Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) and implement their prioritized technologies, has become instrumental to the UNFCCC implementation efforts. In an official side event at the Africa Climate Week panellists discussed how to overcome the implementation gap enhancing the development, transfer and uptake of climate…
• News 4 September 2023 TNA Capacity Building workshop will help countries achieve Development Goals The Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) process presents an opportunity for least-developed countries to reflect on their needs to achieve their development goals, identify gaps, and technological solutions needed to address the identified gaps or constraints. The process also provides recommendations on national strategies and policy frameworks to achieve key national priorities and development goals. Delivering her opening remarks, the Director of the Pacific Centre for Environment &…
• Project 24 August 2023 Policy and partnerships for sustainability and climate action at the Last Mile Currently, more than 1.5% of the global population are forcibly displaced. Now at over 120 million people this is nearly double the number from a decade ago, with women and girls being the most affected. If current trends and drivers of displacement remain then this number is likely to increase, with up to 216 million people internally displaced by environmental crises alone by 2050. These figures from UNEP’s Foresights Report (2024) show how multiple crises of conflict,…

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