Background 

For more than two decades Technology Action Plans (TAPs), developed through Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs), have helped shape the climate technology agenda in developing countries and inform the intergovernmental process on climate change. Parties use TAPs to guide the financing and implementation of their climate priorities in alignment with their NDCs, drawing on support from a diverse range of domestic and international actors. 

 A 2025 report by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Center (UNEP-CCC), the implementing agency for the GEF-funded Global TNA Project, showed that approved projects informed by TNAs and TAPs have mobilized nearly 3 billion USD through the GEF, the GCF and the Adaptation Fund. The total volume of support is likely even higher, as developing countries also draw on bilateral cooperation and multilateral banks and other funding sources to advance their climate technology priorities.  

The UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC), with support from the UNFCCC secretariat and in collaboration with UNEP-CCC, continues to track the outcomes of the TNA process and collect evidence of implementation. These efforts aim to inspire action, demonstrate the value of the TNA process, and strengthen collective learning on how it can accelerate climate action. 

The adoption of the Belém Technology Implementation Programme under the Paris Agreement, the first-ever implementation programme, places renewed emphasis on TNAs and TAPs as vehicles for articulating climate-related technology priorities and associated implementation roadmaps in developing countries. It also highlights the role of a diverse landscape of actors for supporting post-TNA action, including multilateral development banks and other financial institutions, United Nations entities, private sector entities and philanthropic organizations.  

Objectives

This event brings together a diverse range of actors to shed light on the diversity of approaches, modalities and support avenues used by developing countries to advance TAP implementation. It will also provide space for exchange of views on what can be done to galvanize and scale support through partnerships and international cooperation - to go further and faster in achieving the transformational changes envisaged under the Paris Agreement.

Format 

The event features inspiring fire-side chats around the implementation of TNAs and TAPs by different actors, followed by reflections on opportunities for further advancing technology priorities of developing countries into fundable projects and programmes. Moreover, the TEC will launch its practical guide on how developing countries can be supported for implementing their TAPs and TNA outcomes.