Background

UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre

UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre (UNEP-CCC) is a leading international advisory institution on energy, climate and sustainable development. Its work focuses on assisting developing countries and emerging economies transition towards more low carbon development paths and supports integration of climate-resilience in national development.

Since 2009, UNEP-CCC has, through the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Project, supported developing countries determine their technology priorities for mitigating and adapting to climate change. The TNA Project follows a country-driven approach. A designated national institution takes the lead, involving a wide range of stakeholders in the process.

Thanks to the information they provide about the potential, ability, and scale of climate change technologies, TNAs can play a unique role in the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions. Actions identified in the Technology Action Plans highlight what needs to be done to activate robust market systems and enabling conditions for technology diffusion and uptake. These actions can in turn strengthen longer-term strategies elaborated in Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans and potentially raise ambitions by making means of implementation more concrete. This session explored how technologies and TNAs can contribute to raise NDC ambitions.

The Global Green Growth Institute

Based in Seoul, Republic of Korea, GGGI is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization that supports developing country governments transition to a model of economic growth that is environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive.

GGGI has been collaborating with member and partner countries on MRV systems since 2017 and is supporting them in building their institutional and human capacity to prepare for the enhanced transparency framework under the Paris Agreement and beyond – including on instruments under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, domestic climate actions, tracking nationally determined contributions NDCs, SDGs and other projects and programs. GGGI is supporting its member and partner countries to accelerate the implementation of their NDCs to realize the commitments to the Paris Agreement and to achieve their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets. GGGI’s MRV program is designed to build transparency and contribute to reductions of GHG emissions by bringing consistency and enhancing accuracy in emissions reporting.

Objectives

• Share lessons learned on capacity building for maximizing the role of technology in NDC implementation, have a discussion on the way forward building upon such lessons.
• Share the experience in developing inclusive LT LEDS and MRV systems and the necessity to understand the technology gaps with a capacity-building perspective.

Structure & Speakers

 Expected outcomes