India accounts for 5.3% of the world’s annual emissions, at 1324.05 Mt CO2 in 2007, with emissions expected to increase sharply in the future. India’s energy demand is expected to more than double by 2030, particularly because anything up to 500 million people still have little or no access to electricity. The focus of the government therefore remains on maintaining a high level of economic growth and addressing poverty.
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.
The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) welcomed two participants to its Secondment programme from India and South Korea.
The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) organized a workshop on accelerating clean energy technology transformation with private sector during the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2019 in Manila, Philippines. This European Commission supported workshop was attended by 60 energy professionals and organized in partnership with the Asian Development Bank and co-supported by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
London, 17 September 2015
CTCN, UNEP DTU Partnership and CATIE have launched a new publication ‘Good practice in Designing and Implementing National Monitoring Systems for Adaptation to Climate Change’ in Spanish: Buenas prácticas para el diseño e implementación de sistemas nacionales de monitoreo para la adaptación al cambio climático.
CTCN Consortium Partner Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) together with Climate Policy Initiative prepared the study on the role of technical assistance and how such assistance may help mobilize investment for climate change.
The document can be downloaded here:
http://climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/the-role-of-technical-as…;
Eco-Business
By Stephen Minas
Negotiators at Paris will have to determine the shape and ambition of support for the development and transfer of clean technologies such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, says King's College London research fellow Stephen Minas.
By Kevin McSpadden
As the world tries to stay below that two degree Celsius target, what are the specifics for technology’s role in the process?
The Hindu. By Sujatha Byravan
In order to have a chance of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, we need suitable technologies to make low-carbon transitions in development right away.
Now that the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP) meet is long over, countries need to concentrate on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which need to peak soon and go to zero by mid-century if there is to be a chance of preventing average temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the level of pre-industrial times.