• News 1 June 2024 TNA stories: Sustainable livestock in Mongolia Mongolia has seen average temperatures going up by 2.1°C over the past 70 years, as a result of climate change. Average rainfall is declining, and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent creating challenges for livestock production and the country’s vast pasturelands. In response to this, Mongolia prioritized the agricultural sector in its Technology Needs Assessment, with special attention given to the husbandry and livestock production and sustainable pasture management. Building on…
• News 17 May 2024 Innovative climate resilient housing pilot in Bangladesh Through a pilot project for climate-resilient housing in Bangladesh's coastal zone, the NDC Action Project and BRAC are showcasing a new way to tackle the challenges posed by the climate crisis in Mongla Upazila in the Western part of Bangladesh. Along with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who is the country focal point for the NDC Action Project, experts from UNEP, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre and BRAC visited the site of the pilot housing project during a mission…
• News 14 May 2024 Creating a market for off-grid e-cooking in Africa Today, nearly four in five people in Africa cook their meals over open fires and traditional stoves, using wood, charcoal, animal dung, and other polluting fuels. This has dire impacts on health, gender equality and the environment, with women and children bearing the worst consequences. At the same time, cooking with biomass such as wood and charcoal amounts for as much as 2% of all CO2 emissions, while the extensive reliance on wood for cooking is contributing to deforestation, worsening the…
• News 7 May 2024 Unlocking Climate Action in Belize: Using the GACMO tool The Belizean effort to combat the climate crisis has received a significant boost through a training programme aimed at enhancing the country's capabilities in implementing the Enhanced Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement. The programme, which contains a series of training workshops, is carried out under the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) by UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Central to this initiative is the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Cost Model (GACMO), a newly…
• News 23 April 2024 Enhancing Ethiopia's Climate Action Capacity Measuring and tracking the impacts of planned climate actions, and managing related finance flows is vital for successful climate action. This is also the case for Ethiopia, where the country is now, after implementing an ICAT project, better placed to estimate the emission reduction potential of possible mitigation actions and their related costs, and establish a tracking framework to see the realized reductions of implemented policies. Additionally, Ethiopia is armed to manage and track its…
• News 18 April 2024 Strengthening NDC and Climate Finance Capacity in Latin America More than 250 people joined a recent UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre training course on NDC finance and proposal development tailored to bolster the capabilities of National Technical Institutions and governments across Latin America. This initiative, a part of the NDC Action Project, aimed to equip participants with the skills necessary to prepare concept notes for submission to financial institutions, a pivotal step in accessing climate finance for NDC implementation. The training sessions…
• News 23 January 2024 Kick-starting the market for e-cooking for displaced people and host communities UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is helping to design a new financing model to boost access to clean energy for displaced populations. Energy poverty among displaced populations in low-income countries is a major challenge leading to deforestation, relatively high greenhouse emissions and a range of risks to human life and health. This includes indoor air pollution, conflict with local communities and violent crimes committed against women and children who are often responsible for collecting…
• News 7 December 2023 TNA IV countries moving on to barrier analysis and enabling frameworks A group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are well on their way to developing concrete action plans for climate technology implementation. As part of the fourth round of the global Technology Needs Assessment project (TNA) the fifteen participating countries have now almost all prioritized their key sectors and climate technologies for adaptation and mitigation, and have moved on to the crucial second TNA step of identifying barriers to increased…

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