• News 9 August 2021 All you need to know about NDCs - now in Spanish and French Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are key to saving our climate. As a crucial part of the global climate negotiations, they are also complicated documents caught in the crossfire between policy, science, finance and necessity. To make information on the NDCs and all their complicated processes and issues more accessible and easy to understand, UNEP DTU Partnership has produced a Pocket Guide to NDCs. Now the guide is available in both Spanish and French. Click to download the Pocket…
• News 9 July 2021 Pilot studies of transformational impact show the extent of climate policy ambition Four pilot cases have showed how looking at climate action policies through a Transformational Change lens can yield new insights into what works and why. The four cases cover different levels, sectors and stakeholders, and have used a new methodology, developed by UNEP DTU Partnership experts, to assess both new and emerging climate policies. The Transformational Change Methodology is a stepwise approach to determine the extent to which a policy is truly transformational in terms of delivering…
• News 17 June 2021 Now available: Capacity building modules for transparency It just got easier to use the series of Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Policy Assessment Guides with four new capacity building modules – Introductory guide, Sustainable development, Transformational change and Stakeholder participation –  to introduce the guides and let users interact and explore cases and carry out exercises. The capacity building modules build on UNEP DTU Partnership’s expertise in developing and using the ICAT…
• News 28 May 2021 Kenya shares transparency experiences with Mozambique In the first of a series of capacity building workshop on climate action transparency, lessons learned from Kenya were shared with institutional stakeholders from Mozambique The workshop was organised through the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) and focused on stakeholder participation in setting up data transparency systems and regulations. It was based on experience and results from Kenya, where UNEP DTU Partnership has facilitated the use of the ICAT Stakeholder…
• News 27 May 2021 First ICAT workshop in China prepares for Paris Agreement rules Last week, the Chinese team organized its first workshop under the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) project, looking at the challenges in the IPCC 2006 inventory guidelines. The workshop aimed at developing concrete recommendations to the Department of Climate Change, to better prepare for the implementation of the new transparency rules under the Paris Agreement. At the workshop, Madam Ding Ding, a senior official from the DCC, welcomed the timely support from the ICAT project…
• Event 25 May 2021 Webinar: How the private sector can transparently assess and report on Sustainable Development impacts of its climate actions (In Spanish) The Paris Agreement (PA) is the international community’s blueprint for achieving the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) goals. The agreement requires countries to adopt “fair and ambitious” voluntary actions to combat climate change. In addition, the PA includes transparency provisions to monitor progress with its implementation, thus helping build trust in the international climate-change regime. A number of voluntary platforms exist for businesses to assess…
• Event 17 May 2021 Webinar: How the private sector can transparently assess and report on its greenhouse-gas emissions To achieve the Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, large reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions are needed across all economic sectors.  Complementing governmental efforts, the private sector is taking steps to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases.  However, at present, mechanisms to account for private sector-driven emission reductions are sub-optimal.  The goal of our project is to help strengthen such mechanisms. A…
• News 13 May 2021 Innovative finance model deemed "highly favourable" Energy efficient LED street lighting is being installed in 9 municipalities across Argentina, in a both climate and budget friendly series of green investments. The LED lights have been purchased through a trust fund, where several municipalities can bundle purchases of green technology, an approach recently called economically and environmentally "highly favourable" in an expert evaluation. The fund is a key pillar of a new innovative financing model for bundling energy efficient investments…

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