Outcomes

While the technology needs assessment (TNA) process has multiple aims, the principle objective is to support developing countries to enhance the implementation of climate technology projects and programmes. It is only through enhanced action on the ground that we can hold the rise in global temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius and as close as possible to 1.5 degrees. Furthermore, the technology needs assessment process also aims to support countries to strengthen resilience to the adverse effects of climate change.

Read about the latest TNA success stories in this brochure. The brochure highlights projects that developing countries have recently implemented, based on outcomes of the TNA. 

Trends

Since 1999, more than 90 developing countries have assessed their technology needs for reducing greenhouse gases and adapting to climate change. To capture key trends and issues encountered by participating countries, the secretariat has published four synthesis reports on technology needs assessments (TNAs). These synthesis reports highlight trends in technology prioritization, common issues that countries need support to address, and common solutions that countries have identified. 

Below are the findings from the fourth synthesis report on technology needs assessments, which the secretariat prepared in 2020.  This document synthesized the TNA reports submitted in 2018 by 53 developing countries. Find all TNA reports here.

Stakeholder Engagement

Almost all Parties carried out their TNA process with the help of a national ministry. All 53 countries reflected in the fourth synthesis report involved stakeholders in the TNA process, particularly through workshops and expert consultations.

National priorities for mitigation and adaptation 

For mitigation, almost all of the Parties prioritized the energy sector, energy industries and transport being the most prioritized subsectors. As for adaptation, the agriculture and water sectors were the most prioritized. 

Prioritized technologies

Barriers and enablers

Budgets for technology action plans

A TAP is a concise plan for the uptake and diffusion of prioritized technologies that will contribute to the country’s social, environmental and economic development and climate change mitigation and adaptation. In their TNAs, countries prepared TAPs for climate technology implementation. For mitigation, the total estimated budget needed by Parties for their TAPs was USD 20.1 billion. For adaptation, the total estimated accumulative budget requirement was USD 4.4 billion. Find out more about the TAPs. 

Project ideas

As part of their TNAs, many countries also developed climate technology project ideas as concrete actions for the implementation of their prioritized technologies. Most of the project ideas for mitigation were in the energy sub-sectors of energy industries and transport. Ideas within the sectors of agriculture and water formed the majority of adaptation projects. The estimated total budget required for more than 440 project ideas identified by Parties amounted to approximately USD 36.0 billion. Search for descriptions of project ideas here.