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Director’s UpdateRose Mwebaza
2019 Overview
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Technical Assistance
2019: 1st year of new regional focus
Technical assistance statistics
Requests, 2018 vs 2019 27 vs 69
No. of countries requesting CTCN assistance for 1st time 16
Total number of countries now served by the CTCN 100
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Trends in CTCN technology demand
Distribution of requests by geographical scope
71.8%: National
19.4%: Sub-national
Distribution of requests by type of assistance (2014-2019)
28.3%: Decision making tools and/or information provision
20.3%: Feasibility of technology options
15.6%: Technology identification and prioritisation
10.1%: Sectoral roadmaps and strategies
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Regional perspective: AFRICA
• Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial
Guinea, Gabon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Sudan all
submitted their 1st CTCN requests in 2019
• Regional focus on:
❑ climate smart agriculture policies
❑ energy efficiency regulatory frameworks
❑ land restoration and management
❑ circular economy
❑ biomass to energy
38 countries served
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Regional perspective: ASIA-PACIFIC
• Cambodia, the Cook Islands, Iraq, Nauru, Timor-
Leste & Vanuatu made their first requests
• Regional focus on:
❑ low-emission transportation
❑ coastal management
❑ energy efficiency
❑ climate-smart cities
32 countries served
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Regional perspective: EASTERN EUROPE
• New request from Serbia
• Regional focus on:
❑ Energy efficiency plans
❑Modernization of district heating systems
3 countries served
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Regional perspective:
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
• Bolivia, El Salvador, & Mexico made their 1st
requests
• Regional focus on:
❑ Circular economy
20 countries served
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Partnerships & Support for Technical Assistance
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Small Grant Aggregator: selected CTCN/UNEP and UNDP to jointly manage a new $10
million-dollar pilot adaptation innovation prorgramme ($5 million USD)
Challenge Program for Adaptation Innovation: CTCN to help mid-size cities access
innovative financing for climate adaptation technologies ($677,000 USD)
GCF Readiness Programme: CTCN supported more than 20 countries in formulation of
GCF Readiness proposals for submission. 16 have been approved thus far. (~$5 million
USD)
Climate Action Enhancement Package: The CTCN supporting 7 countries. Some CAEP
funds will be provided to the CTCN for technical assistance implementation, while the
CTCN will co-finance, and in some cases completely finance, the remainder of individual
technical assistance costs. ($585,000 USD)
Pro bono support: The Republic of Korea provided pro bono support to four technical
assistance projects in 2019 ($419,948 USD)
Capacity Building
• CTCN Regional Forums at UNFCCC Climate Weeks
• Workshops to support industrial SMEs in adopting climate-friendly technologies
• Secondment Programme
• Webinar programme
• Capacity building also incorporated into majoring of technical assistance cases
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Network
• 46 new members in 2019
• The Centre welcomed its 500th Network member
• Matchmaking workshops convened to connect NDEs with civil society & private sector solution providers
• Events in Africa, Asia, and Europe brought together government, financial and private sector representatives to identify opportunities for clean technology partnerships.
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Network Analysis
Network representation:
• Private sector: 47%
• Research and academic organizations: 22%
Do we have sufficient resources in responding to requests?
• Compared to a relatively high number of TA requests, there is a
lower Network presence in:
• (sector) Agriculture and Forestry, Transport, Carbon
fixation and abatement
• (cross-sectoral enablers) Economics and financial
decision-making
• (approach) Gender, Endogenous technologies
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Knowledge Sharing
• CTCN knowledge portal is now one of the
world’s largest online source of climate
technology information in the world
• 70% increase in users over the past year
• Knowledge resources developed including:
• technical briefs
• roadmaps
• recommendations
• and other climate technology guidance
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Gender & Youth
• CTCN online Gender Hub: 700 publications, tools and case studies
• Gender Just Climate Solutions Award & Upscaling Workshop: with the Women and Gender Constituency
• Women in Energy - Breaking Stereotypes and Inspiring Change:
TERI collaboration to identify case studies on women in energy supply chains
in India and Nepal
• Mainstreaming gender in Technology Needs Assessments Workshop
• New workplan with YOUNGO and workshop “When youth creates its own future: a focus on climate technologies”
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CTCN AT COP 25
• Technology Mechanism exhibition space hosted
bilateral meetings and hundreds of visitors
• 1,680 Participants at 30 CTCN events
• More than 23 articles in media around the world
• CTCN views on Facebook increased 73%
• 7 CTCN videos showcased daily at the COP
Action Hub
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Adapting our work during COVID-19
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Meeting climate change needs in challenging times
Adapting our work during COVID-19
❑ As part of the business continuity plan for the CTCN, we undertook a risk analysis of
the impact of the corona virus on the CTCN work programme for 2020.
❑ We also undertook a risk analysis on the impact of COVID-19 on the CTCN reporting
mandate for COP 26.
❑ In March 2020, the impact of COVID-19 on CTCN budget performance stood at 15%.
❑ However, if we are not able to work fully by summer, the impact on programme and
budget delivery will be significant and we shall need to immediately consult with our
funding partners
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Technical Assistance
❑ Ongoing technical assistance:
❑ Much work is continuing to move forward
❑ However, some important stakeholder consultations (especially in rural areas)
are proving challenging
❑ Governments are in some cases adopting a wait and see policy
❑ Contracts are being updated to reflect this
❑ Requests:
❑ Number of requests is down in comparison to same time last year
❑ Secretariat analysing country programmes, NDCs and collaborating with NDEs
to develop new requests so a pipeline is being built and maintained
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Meeting climate change needs in challenging times
Moving activities and meetings online whenever possible:
❑ 13 webinars and major online events attended by 1076 people
❑ June Momentum Technology Mechanism Event ~300 participants
Keeping stakeholders up to date and engaged:
❑ 7 online regional NDE briefings: 192 participants from 70 countries around the world
Network Engagement:
❑ Online briefings for Network members
❑ Two stage bidding process via the UN Global Marketplace introduced
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Meeting climate change needs in challenging times
❑ Responding to requests for corona virus-related support:
❑ Sound environmental management of biomedical waste from COVID-19
❑ Expanding online infrastructure to accommodate developing country stakeholder needs:
❑ Support NDE meetings
❑ Technical assistance planning
❑ The need is higher now due to travel bans.
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Meeting climate change needs in challenging times
In order to support the global call to build back better, the CTCN is supporting countryinitiatives and technology choices that facilitate:
❑ Creating National Systems of Innovation to enhance resilience
❑ National Circular Economy Roadmaps and business models based on theconcept of circularity through engagement of private sector, creation of jobs aswell as supporting integration of circularity in updated versions of NDCs to raiseNDCs’ ambition of countries
❑ Introducing transformative technology in the Urban Transport sector throughe-Mobility policies and framework of its implementation through the correcttechnology choices and market based financial mechanism.
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Visibility and Impact: Communications Outreach
CTCN in the media: Jan-May 2020
• Media clippings: 425
• Earned media financial value: 188,200 EUR
• Social media impressions: 10,5 million
• Increase on Twitter: 9,2%
• Increase on Facebook: 1,7%
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Visibility and Impact: Other communication channels
Jan-June 2020:
• CTCN website: 126,361 visitors
• Web impressions: 8.63 million
• CTCN newsletters subscribers:
~18,000
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