Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is seeking a member of the CTCN Network to provide technical services in order to design scale up of climate resilient waste management and energy capture technologies in small and medium livestock farms in Ecuador.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is seeking a member of the CTCN Network to provide technical services related to development of technological tools to evaluate the impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Uruguay’s coastal zone.
Recent regional studies conducted for Latin America and the Caribbean demonstrate that the incidence of extreme sea levels increased with a greater magnitude and frequency being noted in the coastal areas of the Caribbean and Río de la Plata.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is looking for a member of the CTCN Network that can provide technical services in order to design adaptation initiatives in a land use planning in Costa Rica.
Chile requested technical assistance through the CTCN to help design a national system for monitoring climate change impacts on biological diversity and associated ecosystem services. Chile is one of the first countries, together with Ivory Coast and Colombia, to complete a technology transfer through CTCN.
UNEP is organizing the first global Science‐Policy Forum in Nairobi, 19 -20 May 2016, as part of the overall programme for the second session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA‐2) 23‐27 May 2016.
The Climate Technology Centre is seeking proposals for the development of relevant indicators and an environmental and climate change information system for Guatemala using open-source tools.
On 15 March 2018, the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC), Climate Technology Centre and Network(CTCN), and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) held a dialogue to explore how to catalyse support for developing country entrepreneurs to develop climate technologies.
“Climate technology brings us closer to the goal of the Paris Agreement”, said the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa.
Lao People's Democratic Republic is considered highly vulnerable to climate change in the context of rapid urbanization. Significant damages are expected from climate-induced extreme events, mainly floods, drought and soil erosion. Those impacts affect not only the cities but also country’s hydrology, ecology, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, hydro-power development.
In order to strengthen the national system of protected areas of Peru from pressures related to climate change impacts, it is important to prepare and manage the ecosystems.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) presents a series of briefs as part of the UNEP-UNDP-IUCN EbA Mountain Project partnership and work from project countries - Uganda, Nepal and Peru. The content draws on lessons generated by the broader global EbA community of practice. Please find the first brief below.
The briefs are designed for practitioners, including local government representatives, civil society organizations and other actors working on climate change issues.