The goal of the Community Waste Management Practice (COP - MRE) is to provide current perspectives, practices and trends and key technologies, and the opportunities of these technologies to mitigate climate change and improving the conditions of welfare and health of the population in a relevant sector in the transition to low-emission and climate resilient economies.

The Community of Practice Solar Photovoltaic (COP-ESF) aims at the dissemination and sharing of updated information on the situation, trends and opportunities for solar PV in Latin America and the Caribbean. The information disseminated on the website of the COP-ESF include: the technical aspects of applications in small and large scale projects both in rural areas far from the grid, as grid-connected installations, well as non-technical aspects of legal, economic, environmental and institutional nature.

Lighting a Billion Lives is a global initiative to facilitate clean energy access and the delivery of last mile energy services for basic and productive use. The initiative enables energy poor communities to transition from traditional and inefficient energy sources to modern, more efficient and sustainable energy solutions. The initiative accelerates market development for clean energy technologies through knowledge sharing, capacity building and market seeding.

Effective responses to climate change require efforts by both the public and private sectors to develop and disseminate new environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) on a global scale, as well as to adapt them to local needs. However, due to a number of market failures and specific uncertainties, the spread of green technologies is less than optimal, which necessitates additional incentives. Based on a review of recent literature, the present Global Challenges