Civil society, academia & international organizations

UN Climate Change works with non-governmental and development cooperation organizations, academia, UN system organizations and other international organizations to implement its mandates. 

Civil Society
  • Arts Help is supporting the secretariat's Digital Archives project that seeks to maintain and preserve UNFCCC records and make these records available for public consultation in the future.
Development Cooperation and Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Co-operate in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation, including capacity building on the development of Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) frameworks, the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), climate finance, and market and non-market-based mitigation actions. 
  • Support in the implementation of the UNFCCC-GIR-CASTT (Climate Action and Support Transparency Training) Programme on Greenhouse Gasses.
  • Support the development of transparent and high-quality national GHG inventories by developing countries through the development and dissemination of methods, tools, and data in the AFOLU sector. Delivers training on national GHG inventories in developing countries. 
  • Enhancing the capacity of developing countries in fulfilling their reporting commitments under the Paris Agreement and facilitating their access to technical and financial support for their implementation of the Paris Agreement.
  • Support for capacity-building for MRV and transparency through the development of a training program and its implementation in collaboration with educational and research institutions.
  • Climate-KIC and the secretariat engage in the development, promotion, and delivery of activities that focus on their shared climate change objectives.

• Enhancing the technical capacity of developing country Parties in understanding and fulfilling their transparency commitments, under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (“ETF”) of the Paris Agreement.

• Advancing their shared ambition and working together on a set of initiatives that is inclusive of but not limited to the Hub and the DwP Movement. GeSI and the secretariat work together in the development, promotion, and delivery of activities.

• Developing workshops, training programs, innovation challenges/competitions, events for the regional climate weeks and COPs, and promoting a digital platform designed to submit climate action suggestions.

• Close the Gap reuses and recycles UNFCCC's written-off ICT equipment.

• Club of Rome will provide time of its members for UNFCCC to access forward thinkers and policymakers, and support UNFCCC’s communication and fundraising.

• Enterprise Neurosystem and the AI Innovation Grand Challenge will support the UNFCCC by promoting global innovation in AI-based climate solutions, particularly for developing countries like LDCs and SIDS.

• Development of a user driven automated intelligence-supported platform with the capacity to identify climate innovations and key trends.
• Development of a framework capable of quantifying and classifying the impact of 1.5-degree compatible climate solutions.

Academia

• Support for capacity-building for MRV and transparency through the development of a training program and its implementation in collaboration with educational and research institutions.

• Support for capacity-building for MRV and transparency through the development of a training program and its implementation in collaboration with educational and research institutions.

UN System Organizations

• Co-hosting workshop regarding carbon emission estimations and removals in the land sector. 

• Organization of workshop under the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, including preparation of a workshop report. 

• Strategic collaboration including strengthening climate leadership and engagement of key stakeholders, knowledge sharing, capacity building, policy coherence, awareness raising, joint fundraising, and jointly organizing the Asia-Pacific Climate Week. 

• Collaboration on the organization of the 2019 Forum on climate finance and sustainable cities (SCF Forum). 

• Collaboration on a strategic training framework for governments and stakeholders on legal and institutional frameworks for implementation of the Paris Agreement and Nationally Determined Contributions. 

• Research and technical support to the UNFCCC Work Programme on Loss and Damage including co-development of a technical paper. 

• UNFCCC-UNU Early Career Climate Fellowship Programme. 

• Collaboration with RCC Lomé – Western and Francophone Africa. 

• Collaboration with respect to communication campaigns, frameworks and mechanisms for capacity-building, climate change leadership and engagement, support to climate policy making and climate-smart investment and technical cooperation. 

• Collaboration with respect to information exchange, established climate fora, and other related areas. 

• Collaboration with RCC Panama – Latin America. 

• Collaboration with RCC Kampala – Eastern and Southern Africa.

• Collaboration with respect to knowledge sharing on the functioning of multilateral climate funds, mobilization and delivery of climate finance, capacity building, policy support for climate action, joint outreach, and communication to Parties 

  • Collaboration on the Africa Regional Workshop on the Building of Sustainable National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management Systems. 
  • Hosting a workshop on enhancing the engagement of the private sector, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, in adaptation and climate resilient supply chains. 
  • Loan of personnel for duties related to climate finance and capacity building.
  • Organization of gender-related activities at UNFCCC COPs including Action for Climate Empowerment and Momentum for Change.
  • Collaboration to organize regional training workshop on reporting mitigation actions, and development of virtual workspace for Group or Friends on MRV/Transparency for developing countries. 

  • Knowledge management through the technical implementation of the UN information portal on multilateral environment treaties (InforMEA).
  • Provision of administrative support services, including general administration, protocol, and financial services, in the United Arab Emirates.
  • Joint publishing of Arabic edition of Action for Climate Empowerment Guidelines for Implementation. 

  • Collaboration with respect to personnel for the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency, and co-organization of the Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change. 

  • Design and implementation of targeted programmers and activities to support learning, training, and knowledge management.
  • Collaboration with respect to global climate action and health, WHO's climate neutrality, MRV of assessment of climate and health impacts, National Adaptation Plans on health, and health adaptation and mitigation reporting.
  • Collaboration Projects including support to the Least Developed Countries Expert Group, Adaptation Committee, and other climate-related areas.
  • Collaboration with respect to climate leadership, awareness raising, policy coherence, capacity building, knowledge, and fundraising.

• Design and implementation of activities foreseen in the 2024 work-plan of the Rio Conventions Joint Capacity-Building Programme.

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