Regional Collaboration Centres

The UNFCCC Regional Collaboration Centres (RCCs) support climate action worldwide by helping countries implement the Paris Agreement. Since the Agreement's adoption in 2015, the RCCs serve as regional hubs, delivering technical assistance, fostering capacity-building, and strengthening partnerships and networks to meet national and local climate action needs. 

 

RCC highlights in 2024: stronger together
Credit: UN Climate Change

New! Visit the Regional Collaboration Centres' 2024 Activity Highlights, featuring our partners and their experience with the RCCs! 

 

What We Do

Together with our regional partners, RCCs work directly in partnership with regional host organizations to help access climate finance, comply with transparency requirements and scale up mitigation and adaptation projects. More specifically, the RCCs aim to support the implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), Carbon Pricing instruments and Article 6 mechanisms, and the deployment of the Enhanced Transparency Framework (EFT). 

Recent support includes assisting countries through initiatives such: 

  • Regional webinars on key COP 29 outcomes and their implications for each specific region. 

  • Technical assistance and capacity-building relating to the formulation and implementation of NAPs. 

  • Engaging the youth and strengthening their capacity to participate in the climate process through collaborative initiatives such as Youth4Capacity and YECAP.  

  • Mainstreaming gender balance within the climate change process and its various sectors, for example through initiatives like Youth and Women Greenovations.

And more. 

Where We Work

  • RCC West and Central Africa – Hosted by BOAD, Togo
  • RCC East and Southern Africa – Hosted by the EADB, Uganda
  • RCC Latin America – Hosted by UNEP in Panama City, Panama
  • RCC Caribbean – Hosted by WINDREF, Grenada
  • RCC Asia and the Pacific – Hosted by IGES, Thailand
  • RCC MENA and South Asia – Hosted by WGEO, UAE
General map of the Regional Collaboration Centres
Credit: RCC

 

 Browse RCC Events

RCCs Events

Regional Collaboration Centres organize, co-organize and participate in various events in each region.
The RCC Events page centralizes information about these events and serves as a repository of RCC activities: browse through by region, by topic or by conference.

 

 Explore the RCCs


 

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