CTCN Technical Assistance Project

National Adaptation Monitoring System for Colombia

Monitoring and Evaluation of national promotion policies for energy efficiency (EE) in Colombia

CTCN is implementing an evaluation of the Colombian energy efficiency program and developing a monitoring system for this program.

Climate change presents a new type of challenge for development. It is, by now, widely acknowledged that climate-change impacts amplify existing unfavorable conditions for developing countries (McCarthy et al.2001). It is also acknowledged that developing nations are more vulnerable and have less adaptive capacity to confront such changes (Swart et al. 2003). Countries with limited resources, poor infrastructure and unstable institutions have generally little capacity to adapt and are highly vulnerable (Smit and Pilifosova 2001).

Chile is seeking to design biodiversity monitoring network in the context of climate change

The development of a terrestrial, aquatic and marine biodiversity monitoring network design in the context of climate change, gathered national and international experts in Santiago de Chile, to share experiences on ongoing monitoring systems around the country and to establish a preliminary set of indicators for the network.

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.

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.

Following the Paris Agreement, the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) and the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) emphasized a focus on enhancement of endogenous capacities and technologies, RD&D, and climate technology financing. Both arms of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism were represented at an event on climate technologies on 19 May at the UN climate change conference in Bonn to provide an overview of technology transfer in both the policy and implementation arenas.  

Transfer of a broad range of adaptation and mitigation technologies are now being realised through collaboration led by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN). 

As part of its technology transfer efforts in Chile, the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) assisted in design of a national system for monitoring climate change impacts on biological diversity and associated ecosystem services.