• News 7 November 2025 Dialogue in Copenhagen Highlights Critical Climate Challenges Before COP30 A high-level climate dialogue held at UN City Copenhagen brought together international leaders and experts to assess the findings of UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report and discuss the path forward ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The event took place on the 7th of November and was organized by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre and Danish green think tank CONCITO. Anne Olhoff, Director of the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre and Chief Scientific Editor of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report, opened the event…
• News 7 June 2024 Leveraging Technology Action Plans for ambitious climate action Yesterday, climate technologies and how they can leverage more ambitious climate action was in focus at the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024, also known as SB 60. In a fully packed room, the UNFCCC side event Making NDCs 3.0 Ambitious and Investment-Ready through Technology Action Plans explored how the Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) and the Technology Actions Plans (TAPs) can elevate Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to be more ambitious and investment-ready. James Grabert of…
• Webinar & E-Learning 8 September 2023 Empowering the energy transition: energy cooperatives and energy communities (Webinar) - 19.04.2023 Although a nascent business model, today energy cooperatives and energy communities cover already a wide range of activities in renewable energies and energy efficiency in several countries. These are local and citizen-led initiatives that put in common investment means and democratic principles to implement the energy transition. Decentralized renewables and small-scale energy efficiency can quickly materialise and become a solution to energy security and decarbonisation, and benefit from…
• News 21 December 2021 Emissions scenarios for Brazilian climate action In February 2020, the now completed second phase of the Brazil Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) project was initiated, focusing on the sub-national level. It applied technical work undertaken at the national level under phase 1 of the project to the state level. Work under this second phase adopted the ICAT guidance for assessing impacts of non-state and subnational actions. Phase 1 of ICAT in Brazil has since March 2018, supported the development of a methodology to calculate…
• News 26 August 2019 LAC Climate Week Calls for Urgent, Ambitious Action The Latin American and Caribbean Climate Week closed last week with calls for more ambition and stronger collaboration among all levels of government, the private sector and civil society. Around 4,000 people participated in the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW) with a focus on implementing national climate plans and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Taking place in the Brazilian city of Salvador, the Climate Week sent a message of solidarity with all the people of…
• 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…
• Tools 3 March 2016 Super-efficient Equipment and Appliance Deployment (SEAD) What is SEAD?At its core, SEAD is about governments working together to save energy, turning knowledge into action to advance global market transformation for energy efficient products.SEAD's 17 participating governments (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the European Commission, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States) collaborate to accelerate and strengthen the design and…