Our Mandate
As defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate technologies cover any piece of equipment, technique, practical knowledge or skills for performing a particular activity that can be used to face climate change.
Our Mission
The CTCN's mission is to stimulate technology cooperation and to enhance the development and transfer of technologies and to assist developing country Parties at their request, consistent with their respective capabilities and national circumstances and priorities, in order to build or strengthen their capacity to identify technology needs, to facilitate the preparation and implementation of technology projects and strategies, taking into account gender considerations to support action on mitigation and adaptation and enhance low-emission and climate-resilient development. (Decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 117 (b), 123)
The CTCN operates within its terms of reference and is accountable to and under the guidance of the COP through an Advisory Board.
Service Areas
The CTCN fulfills its mission by:
CTCN Staff
Nima Joshi
Bibiana Sanchez
Clara Landeiro
Daye Eom
Anastasiia Tiurmenko
Isabel Hagbrink
Julia Kempny
Hoyoung Jo
Jeawon Kim
Molly Sharone
Nadege Trocellier
Wooyoung Kim
Ramiro Salinas
Suil Kang
Valentin Rudloff
Marisela Ricardez Garcia
Woojin Han
CTCN Monitoring and Evaluation
By mobilizing global expertise to deliver the right solutions, knowledge, and financing, we strengthen collective action and leverage technologies to achieve our common goals.
- The CTCN has received requests from 112 countries. See more information and visualizations for CTCN Technical Assistance
- Our Network has over 760 members. See more information and visualizations for CTCN Network
CTCN Impact on the SDGs
All CTCN technical assistance support SDG13: Climate Action. The distribution in the image also highlights the large number of technical assistance supporting SDGs 7, 8, 9 and 11. Remaining SDGs are presented in the order of distribution.
CTCN Monitoring & Evaluation System
This document presents the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system of the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) completed in 2020. It includes the Theory of Change and the Performance Measurement Framework of the CTCN, both of which are in alignment with reporting on the implementation of the Technology Framework under Article 10, paragraph 4, of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This document also includes the 6 data collection forms and templates to be used to gather data for the 45 qualitative and quantitative indicators contained in the CTCN Performance Measurement Framework. Click here to access the document.