• News 4 July 2014 6th Africa Carbon Forum held in Windhoek, Namibia Windhoek, 4 July 2014 – Climate change threatens to undo decades of earnest effort to develop Africa unless sufficient investment can be mobilized to spur sustainable development and make the continent more resilient. This was the message delivered to about 400 participants at the 6th Africa Carbon Forum, gathered to share and learn the latest about market and financial opportunities associated with the international response to climate change. The forum was opened by the Minister of…
• News 17 February 2014 URC presents papers at the Development and Mitigation Conference in Cape Town UNEP Risø Centre participated in the Development and Mitigation Forum in Cape Town from 27 – 29 January, 2014. Convened and supported by the MAPS Programme, the Energy Research Centre of the University of Cape Town and the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, the forum aimed at climate mitigation and development researchers, practitioners and experts from the developing world to present and discuss their work and experiences on mitigation and development. Karen Holm Olsen and Zyaad Boodoo…
• News 18 November 2013 New NAMA publication 'Guidance for NAMA design' released 18 November 2013: The UN Development Programme's (UNDP) Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB) Programme, the UNFCCC Secretariat and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)-Risø have launched a publication titled ‘Guidance for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA) Design: Building on country experiences.' The publication aims to support developing countries in developing and implementing NAMAs through providing guidance and best practice examples on key aspects of NAMAs, including…
• News 5 November 2013 2013 Gap Report Strengthens Case for Wide-Ranging Global Action to Close Emissions Gap Berlin/Nairobi, 5 November 2013 – Should the global community not immediately embark on wide-ranging actions to narrow the greenhouse gas emissions gap, the chance of remaining on the least-cost path to keeping global temperature rise below 2°C this century will swiftly diminish and open the door to a host of challenges. The Emissions Gap Report 2013—involving 44 scientific groups in 17 countries and coordinated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)—is released as leaders prepare to meet…
• News 6 June 2013 New Publication: Understanding the Concept of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action The publication, authored by Sudhir Sharma and Denis Desgain of the UNEP Risø Centre, aims  to provide a comprehensive overview of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) concept and enhance the understanding of NAMAs by explaining the underlying decisions of the Conference of the Parties in layman’s terms. The first chapter describes how the concept of NAMA emerged in the context of the negotiations on climate change. The chapter gives an overview of how the concepts of…
• News 25 April 2013 New Publication Launched: National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baseline Scenarios What do we know about the way developing country governments calculate their baselines? Arguably, increased transparency about the methods and assumptions to develop baselines is warranted, and it is this aspect that the new publication 'National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baseline Scenerios: Learning from Experiences of Developing Countries' seeks to address. Several parties to the UNFCCC have pledged quantified emissions reductions and actions for 2020 (and beyond) relative to their baseline…

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