Newly updated capacity-building portal: The recently updated UNFCCC capacity-building portal provides all Parties and other stakeholders with access to information, tools and resources across 18 climate-related topics, ranging from finance to adaptation strategies to Nationally Determined Contributions. Users can find curated resources aimed at boosting their ability to tackle climate challenges at national, regional and local levels. The portal is currently available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese. 

UNDP Climate Promise: UN Climate Change is working together with UNDP on their Climate Promise initiative to ramp up support for NDCs. UNDP has been supporting over 120 countries and territories with revising and boosting their NDCs – covering 80% of developing countries globally and becoming the world’s largest offer of support on NDC enhancement. This support covers a range of key technical areas, including strengthening targets and aligning with key national policies, assessing costs and investment opportunities, as well as setting up the systems for monitoring and reporting on progress.

NDC 3.0 Navigator: UN Climate Change and the NDC Partnership launched the NDC 3.0 Navigator, to provide Parties with access to information that can help them develop new NDCs with a focus on implementation.

Regional Forum on NDCs: UN Climate Change, UNEP, UNDP, and the NDC Partnership are working on a project to host a forum on NDCs, region by region, with the aim to build capacity and keep driving momentum. The forum starts in Samoa in August and then week by week across all regions.  Each forum will spotlight climate change impacts in the region, highlight the importance of regionally specific, locally driven mitigation efforts, and discuss ways to accelerate climate action and a just, inclusive transition in the region. For more information, please contact RCC-coordination@unfccc.int 

Regional Collaboration Centres: Our regional experts in our Regional Collaboration Centres – RCC Asia and the Pacific, RCC Caribbean, RCC East and Southern Africa, RCC Latin America, RCC MENA and South Asia, and RCC West and Central Africa – are available to support Parties as they formulate and implement their NDCs 3.0 and long-term low-emission development strategies (LT-LEDs). For more information, please contact RCC-coordination@unfccc.int 

More NDC 3.0 resources and support: UN Climate Change’s new NDC 3.0 webpage contains a full list of secretariat-provided resources and platforms related to capacity-building and technical support for Parties. It also contains a full list and contact details of NDC 3.0 support provided by other organizations. 

Non-Market Approaches platform: The NMA Platform was developed to record and exchange information on non-market approaches – which focus on cooperation on climate policy. The NMA Platform records support needed, for Parties participating in non-market approaches and other non-Party stakeholders.

Article 6 capacity-building workshops: The Regional Collaboration Centres will organize a series of capacity-building workshops, to provide Parties with the knowledge and tools needed to participate in and benefit from Article 6 mechanisms. For more information, please contact RCC-coordination@unfccc.int

Regional Collaboration Centres: Our carbon pricing and Article 6 specialists can provide technical support and capacity building on carbon pricing mechanisms and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. They are working closely with countries in their respective regions to develop and implement market-based approaches that can help boost climate ambition and cooperation. For more information, please contact RCC-coordination@unfccc.int

Adaptation Knowledge Portal: The Adaptation Knowledge Portal provides free and open access to adaptation knowledge resources. The portal provides information on the Nairobi Work Programme’s network of over 400 partner organizations, as well as engagement opportunities.

Local communities and Indigenous Peoples platform: The LCIPP platform promotes the exchange of experiences and good practices for addressing climate change in a holistic way.  It also builds capacity for engagement, and brings together diverse knowledge to help Parties design and implement climate action and policies. The platform, for example, promotes agricultural practices that include indigenous and local knowledge and can help with climate change, food security, biodiversity conservation, and desertification and land degradation.

NAP Central: Nap Central is the main entry to National Adaptation Plan practitioners and offers links to available resources (funding and technical support), programmes supporting adaptation in developing countries, scientific aspects of adaptation (data, assessment, responses, etc.), and a platform for sharing experiences and ideas for better adaptation planning.

Regional Collaboration Centres: Our adaptation experts can provide tailored support for climate resilience and adaptation planning. Their work focuses on boosting adaptive capacities and integrating adaptation measures into national policies and strategies. For more information, please contact RCC-coordination@unfccc.int

Together For Transparency initiative: under the banner of the #Together4Transparency initiative, the Transparency Division raises awareness, builds capacity and engages diverse stakeholders for the full implementation of the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF).  This includes organizing high-level events, roundtables, side events, mandated events, capacity-building sessions and hands-on training opportunities, involving Party and non-Party stakeholders. All UNFCCC transparency-related events can be found on the Transparency Calendar.

New ETF reporting tools: UN Climate Change recently launched its online reporting tools for the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). These tools will enable countries to track crucial climate data and information, from greenhouse gas inventories to progress made implementing their national climate plans, achievements and support.

GHG Helpdesk: The GHG Helpdesk is for all experts and stakeholders involved in the GHG inventory planning, preparation and management from developing countries to allow them to ask questions and raise issues about their national GHG inventory development, and receive detailed technical advice to resolve them.

Transparency Helpdesk: The transparency helpdesk contains technical resources for implementing the measurement, reporting and verification arrangements under the Convention and the Enhanced Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement.

Building capacity for transparency: The capacity-building initiative for transparency is part of the GEF's response to the Paris Agreement. It strengthens countries' national institutional capacities on climate transparency, facilitates the development of tools and training, and it improves transparency over time. 

REDD+ Web Platform: The REDD+ Web Platform contains information shared by stakeholders on the outcomes, experiences and lessons learned from their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+). It contains information and explanatory material on REDD+ safeguards, REDD+ national strategies, measuring and reporting of forest-related emissions and removals, and REDD+ results-based finance.

Lima Information Hub for REDD+: The Lima Information Hub for REDD+ was established to publish information on the results of REDD+ activities, and corresponding results-based payments. The Lima REDD+ Information Hub aims to increase transparency of information on REDD+ results-based actions.

Sharm el-Sheikh online portal: The Sharm el-Sheikh online portal under the Sharm el-Sheikh joint work on implementation of climate action on agriculture and food security contains information on projects, initiatives and policies for increasing opportunities for implementation of climate action to address issues related to agriculture and food security.

Needs-based Finance Project: UN Climate Change established the Needs-based Finance Project to support the access and mobilization of climate finance to developing country Parties. It focuses on implementing priority mitigation and adaptation measures identified by developing countries, in line with their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans, and other relevant policies.

The Standing Committee on Finance engages with stakeholders from the financial sector and observer organizations on its technical reports by holding global and regional webinars and expert sessions. The objective is information and knowledge exchange among Party representatives, practitioners and experts, input to the technical work (for example, the goal of mobilizing USD 100 billion of climate finance per year) and awareness raising around latest developments and reports by the Standing Committee on Finance (for example, the report on the determination of needs of developing country Parties).

TT:CLEAR: TT:CLEAR serves as the web platform for all things climate technology – from solar power to wind energy and from early warning systems to sea walls. It houses information on the Technology Mechanism (which accelerates the development and transfer of climate technologies), the Technology Executive Committee (which is the policy arm of the Technology Mechanism and provides climate technology recommendations to countries) and Technology Needs Assessments (which identify technologies needed for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries). Parties visiting the TT:CLEAR site can learn about technology projects from around the world, use that information to inform decision making, and find ways to connect with the people behind them.

The Technology Executive Committee (TEC) has produced a series of policy briefs and technical publications that aim to accelerate the development and transfer of low-emission and climate resilient technologies. Publications cover various areas critical for developing countries, such as national innovation systems, agriculture, water management, distributed renewable energy, coastal zone technologies, incubators and accelerators. These resources can help inform policy makers as they develop Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and other climate-related policies.

Gender-responsive NDCs: UN Climate Change provides support to Parties, including regional workshops, so that they can include a gender in their next round of NDCs. The NDC 3.0 Navigator also includes examples and insights on how to integrate gender into NDCs. For more information, please contact Gender-Team@unfccc.int

Climate finance and gender: The climate finance and gender webpage provides information on capacity-building resources and training opportunities on gender-responsive climate finance in particular. It is intended to support National Gender and Climate Change Focal Points to better access climate finance and dedicated funding for gender mainstreaming.

Meetings for national gender and climate change focal points (NGCCFPs): UN Climate Change regularly organizes online closed meetings for NGCCFPs on priority topics defined by the group, such as just transitions, transparency and climate finance. The objective of these meetings is to build NGCCFP's capacities on such topics through presentations by invited experts and knowledge exchange among participants. The secretariat also maintains a Microsoft Teams group for the focal points to facilitate informal meetings, information-sharing and interaction. For more information, please contact: Gender-Team@unfccc.int

ACE Focal Points Academy: The annual ACE Focal Points Academy provides training modules based on the needs identified by ACE focal points and negotiators to foster ACE implementation at all levels. Participants have various opportunities to showcase good practices, receive hands-on and interactive training, and engage in meaningful discussions with experts and peers (This is an initiative under the ACE Hub).

Informal virtual networking events: UN Climate Change regularly organizes Informal virtual networking events to strengthen the network of ACE focal points at the international and regional levels. These networking events help facilitate the exchange of views, good practices and lessons learned to build and strengthen capacity and skills, and facilitate peer support for ACE implementation.  This is an initiative under the ACE Hub.

UNESCO-UNFCCC webinar series on climate change education for social transformation: Following the success of the previous two seasons of the webinar series, each focusing on greening curriculum and greening schools, the current season delves into the challenges at all levels of education and explores concrete solutions for greening teacher training and education systems' capacities in order to deliver quality climate change education.  This is an initiative under the ACE Hub.

Training sessions on UN Climate Change thematic topics: Developed with the support of the COP28 Presidency and the COP28 Youth Climate Champion, the modules aim to raise awareness and understanding of the UNFCCC process and build the capacities of stakeholders, including Party delegates, to engage in climate policymaking processes at national and international levels.