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 and approaches to enhance the quality of their technical components. This work is done in line wi

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 existing institutional arrangements and processes for MRV of policies and actions. The Paris Agreemen

The CBIT Global Coordination Platform keeps track of national CBIT projects and addresses any lack of national transparency capacities and limited coordination efforts. The aim of this project is to address the lack of a global coordination platform for information sharing and knowledge management on the enhanced transparency framework, as defined by the article 13 of the Paris Agreement. Many developing countries are facing similar challenges and currently there does not exist a platform or forum that can facilitate a discussion on lessons learned and best practices. Establishing an online

The Facilitating Implementation and Readiness for Mitigation (FIRM) project worked to strengthen national capacities to formulate low carbon development strategies and identify mitigation opportunities. FIRM worked within the context of national sustainable development priorities and the evolving concept of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs).

The overall objective of the NAMAcademy is to provide focused training on practical issues when designing climate change mitigation policies and actions, as well as assisting in bringing the initial idea to a well-structured concept designed to approach potential financiers.