• News 9 July 2026 Georgia advances climate implementation and transparency efforts Georgia is taking important steps to turn its climate ambitions into action, with support from UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre focused on mitigation planning, investment opportunities and building the technical capacity needed to track progress towards national climate goals.In mid-June, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre experts joined the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia and national stakeholders in Tbilisi through two complementary initiatives. The activities…
• Project 7 April 2026 NDC PAF Georgia – Cost-effective mitigation planning Georgia has significantly increased its climate ambition under the draft NDC 3.0, committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 47% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 50% by 2035. Meeting these enhanced targets requires stronger data systems, sector‑specific mitigation planning, and a pipeline of investment‑ready climate projects. Although Georgia has made progress, supported by UNDP and the GEF in updating its NDC and preparing its first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), important gaps remain…
• News 2 May 2024 Eurasian Countries Strengthen Climate Transparency Last week, Tbilisi, Georgia, hosted a transformative three-day training to strengthen greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory reporting under the Paris Agreement's Enhanced Transparency Framework. The event brought together more than forty participants from fifteen countries across Eurasia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The training titled “Deep-dive into preparation and reporting of results of national GHG inventories under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement” was…
• Project 8 May 2019 Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency - Creating actionable knowledge and learning on energy efficiency The lack of actionable information and misinformation on energy efficiency is widely considered one of the key barriers to energy efficiency action. The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency is continuously collecting and disseminating the latest knowledge and best evidence to support decision and policy making through its Knowledge Management System (KMS). Knowledge Management System (KMS) The KMS is establishing its status as a widely recognised global reference library for energy efficiency…
• Project 12 December 2018 Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency works to engage national and subnational governments to accelerate energy efficiency implementation, in line with global Sustainable energy objectives. Many developing world governments are motivated to act on energy efficiency, therefore the Copenhagen Centre can help with the capacity to realise their energy efficiency ambitions, and to develop projects that would be able to attract investments and generate actual energy savings. With a focus on the…
• Project 7 November 2018 CBIT Transparency Support Team The CBIT Transparency Support Team is a collaborative effort that brings together a team of experts from UNEP DTU Partnership working with the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT). In conjunction with countries around the world the team prepares projects to be presented under the CBIT Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund. The overall objective of collaborative effort is to strengthen the preparation of CBIT projects to be presented to the GEF, by sharing common practices…
• Project 24 September 2018 Technology Needs Assessments (phase I and II) Between 2010 and 2018, UN Environment and UNEP DTU, with financing from the Global Environment Facility, completed two phases of Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) in more than 60 countries. The overall objective was to go beyond identifying technology needs narrowly, work towards investment.  TNAs also present a unique opportunity for countries to track their needs for new equipment, techniques, services, capacities and skills necessary to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In…
• Webinar & E-Learning 1 June 2017 Energy Efficiency Actions in Georgia and Tbilisi (Webinar) - 01.06.2017 The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency is hosting a no-cost webinar series ‘Think globally, act locally’ in order to explore how energy efficiency policies and actions are linked together at the global, national and local levels of decision-making and how potentially local actions can drive policy and market transformation at the higher levels of governance. Each webinar will start with the global level discussion on the trends and development in the field of energy efficiency followed by…