• News 1 November 2024 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report Highlights Path to Tripling Renewable Energy by 2030 As the world strives to meet critical climate goals, the 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report: Unleashing renewable energy for ambitious NDCs underscores the urgent need to triple renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030 and spotlights the enabling conditions to create this transition. Download the report here. In early 2025, Countries will need submit their second round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. This is a pivotal opportunity…
• News 3 September 2024 NDC Action in Uganda: Climate goals translated into action Last week, the NDC Action project validation workshop in Uganda brought together high-level stakeholders to discuss the implementation of Uganda's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Key presentations highlighted the integration of results of the NDC Action project, including innovative climate technologies, such as solar irrigation, picture-based insurance and e-cooking, as well as the development of a blended finance tool to support Uganda's low-carbon development goals. The workshop…
• News 4 July 2024 Trinidad and Tobago secures first GCF funding for carbon capture and storage Trinidad and Tobago has secured support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project, marking the first time the GCF has funded such an initiative. This success is informed by a comprehensive Technology Needs Assessment (TNA), conducted in collaboration with the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. The GCF Readiness project, approved in March 2024, aims to further Trinidad and Tobago's CCS readiness, including assessing storage potential in deep saline formations…
• News 1 June 2024 TNA stories: Framework for renewable energy investments in Liberia Liberia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. 70% of the population work in the agriculture sector and with the country’s dependency on agricultural goods, the increased frequency of extreme weather events threatens the livelihoods of millions. In its Technology Needs Assessment, Liberia prioritized renewable energy technologies for both mitigation and adaptation in the agriculture sector. With the right climate technologies, the significant availability of biomass generated by…
• 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…
• Project 1 May 2024 Implementation of Urban Nature-based Solutions for Mitigation and Adaptation Nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly understood to be effective and efficient options for addressing both mitigation and adaptation challenges in a wide range of settings. In urban contexts, they contribute to mitigation by sequestering and storing carbon in their biomass and in soils or by reducing the demand for cooling. NbS are also powerful options to reduce climate risk by significantly lowering the impacts of climate hazards, such as reducing the impact of wave height and…
• News 16 April 2024 Uganda leads the way on electric cooking Along with UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre and a host of other partners, Uganda is introducing sustainable cooking to some of the most vulnerable communities, addressing energy access, health, and environmental sustainability. The goal is to create affordable access to solar electric-cooking for 150,000 households by 2027. At a meeting on 11 April, the Government of Uganda and multiple other UN, Private Sector, and Civil Society partners agreed to set up a steering committee to oversee the…
• News 15 November 2023 Climate action in displacement: Kampala workshop highlights innovative partnerships Driving Climate Action Partnerships in Displacement, international workshop focused on innovative initiatives tackling climate challenges for displaced and host communities, informing pledges ahead of the Global Refugee Forum. UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre co-hosted a hybrid international workshop in Kampala, Uganda, alongside Last Mile Climate on the 8 November 2023. The all-day session was opened by Hon. Beatrice Atim Anywar, Minister of State for Environment for Uganda and attended by more…

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