• News 28 May 2026 Niger validates its next 5-year climate strategy – the NDC 3.0 The Government of Niger has validated its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) during a national workshop in Niamey on May 19th, marking an important milestone in the country’s preparation of its next generation climate commitments under the Paris Agreement. The revision of the national commitments was a collaborative process that brought together a wide range of national and international partners. Throughout this exercise, UNEP and the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre provided…
• News 3 March 2026 Africa's First Centralized Review of Biennial Transparency Reports The UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, through the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency – Global Transparency Support Programme (CBIT-GSP), is contributing to a landmark step in Africa's climate transparency journey: the first centralized Technical Expert Review of Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) of Least Developed Countries in Africa under the Paris Agreement's Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). As part of the biennial reporting cycle under the ETF, countries’ submitted BTRs are…
• Project 27 February 2019 Technology Needs Assessment (phase III) UN Environment and UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, with financing from the Global Environment Facility, are implementing a third phase of Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs), involving 22 countries (2018-2022). This third phase focuses on supporting mostly Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing states. The objective of this phase is to go beyond identifying technology needs narrowly and to work towards investment. The overall objective of the TNA project is to support countries…
• Project 18 December 2018 CDM Green Facility The Green Facility project supported sub-Saharan African countries become more engaged in the Clean Development Mechanism (CMD) market by focusing on project development and capacity building, laying the groundwork for long-term CDM investments. It was designed and implemented by UNEP DTU Partnership. The objectives of the project were: Conduct a rapid capacity building needs assessment in the countries, and identify key stakeholders who could benefit from a targeted capacity building program…
• Project 13 November 2018 African Carbon Asset Development (ACAD) Facility I & II The African Carbon Asset Development (ACAD) Facility was originally established in 2009 at the height of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project development to address the widespread concern that CDM evaded the African continent. As the market shifted away from CDM and into other concepts like Programmes of Activity, NAMAs and microfinance, ACAD II followed. ACAD was an innovative public-private partnership that collaborated not only with local project developers to enhance their awareness,…
• 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…