Rajiv Garg

Network and Capacity Building Manager

CTCN Activities – Status Update

The Climate Technology Centre & Network

CTCN Mission:

To promote the accelerated development and transfer of

climate technologies at the request of developing

countries for energy-efficient, low-carbon and climate-

resilient development

Background Information and Structure

• Operative arm of the UNFCCC Technology Mechanism

• Working for National Designated Entities

• In partnership with:

• UNEP, UNIDO

• 12 independent, regional and global consortium partner organizations with expertise in climate change technologies

• International network of 300+ academic, multilateral, NGO and private sector institutions

• Strategic Partner DNV GL

CTCN: Responding to Developing Countrytechnology needs

UNFCCC Technology Mechanism created in 2009 alongside Financial Mechanism (GCF+GEF) as part of Copenhagen Agreement

Technology Mechanism consists of a Technology Executive Committee (policy guidance) and Climate Technology Centre and Network (operations)

CTCN is donor-driven, co-hosted by UNEP & UNIDO

Work with Financial Mechanism + country focal points + partner organizations to leverage private sector expertise in service of Developing Country needs

CTCN : 3 core service offerings

Technical Assistance

170+ country-driven requests received from 67 countries; 10 completed to date, 30 under implementation

Expect 200 by end 2016, ±350 total by end 2017 (subject to funding considerations)

Capacity Building

Regional Forums linking country focal points, private sector experts & GCF representatives

LDC Incubator Programme, expanding to SIDS

Knowledge Management + Networking

>300 Network + Consortium implementing partners

Webinars, information portal, sharing best practice

Technology Library: Convention technology focus

Serving as a facilitator between

developing countries and

technology experts

Identification of technology

transfer barriers

Advice on policy, legal and

regulatory frameworks to

support technology transfer

Technology feasibility

assessments

Technology identification

Capacity building

CTCN service areas and core sectors

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181 Technical Assistance Projectsin 80+ Countries

Requests on a map

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Technical Assistance across the technology innovation cycle

Technology Adaptation

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Technical Assistance by Contribution to Sustainable Development Goals

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SDG 13.1 SDG 13.2 SDG 13.3

SGD 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries13.2 - Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning13.3 - Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

(Based on analysis of a representative 16-request sample of CTCN TA)

Technical Assistance Requests by Region

Mitigation Requests by Sector

Adaptation Requests by Sector

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Consortium

Network

• 156 National Focal Points (NDEs)

• Around 300 Network members

• Regional meetings bring togethergovernment, private sector, & finance stakeholders

• Network members bid to implement technology solutions

A global network of partners in over 50 countries

CTCN Network draws from many different types of organizations

Network Activities – Ongoing and Planned

Network Meeting of the Institutions engaged in R&D activities (planned) :

Technology Innovation And Application

Define status and potential of match making activities to support the piloting

and demonstration of climate technology innovation to developing countries

through the CTCN

Identify gaps in developing countries for undertaking technology adaptation to

local contexts including policies, fiscal instruments and markets to promote

innovation

Network Activities – Ongoing and Planned

G-STIC (gstic.org): Global Science, Technology and Innovation Conference,

October 2017 : “TECH FOR SDGs”

Focuses on Multilateral policy making as an entry point to national and

local policies/norms/guidelines

Policy impact points/norms/guidelines that need to change/be developed

to make the transition to more sustainable technological development

models

CTCN to lead workstream on Climate Technologies

Stakeholder Engagement– Ongoing and Planned Activities

Stakeholder Engagement Forums

To enable matchmaking between governments and private sector that can lead to

collaborative public/private efforts and identification of Technical Assistance

requests (outcome).

o NDE/SME Entrepreneurial financing experience exchange – Singapore

Investment Forum , along with PFAN (completed)

o Planned : Stakeholders Forum for - Mekong countries (along with WIPO); Central

American countries (along with LAC Carbon Forum); East African Countries

Climate Technology Opportunity Analytics

To improve the information and understanding of selected climate technologies and

potential benefits and opportunities for private sector involvement and investment.

(technology identification through NDC analysis and market assessments).

Capacity Building - CTCN

1) Facilitate the creation of an enabling environment for the development and

deployment of climate technologies

Country driven approach – institutional, policy, regulations, finance etc.

Strong elements of capacity building in technical assistance

2) Facilitate linkages between technical assistance and financing.

3) Foster institutional strengthening in developing countries

4) Improve developing countries’ overall understanding of climate

technologies

Webinars

Stakeholder engagements etc.

Ongoing and planned CB activities

CB module for GCF concept note development

To enhance the skills of project proponents in preparing GCF concept notes

for future submission to the GCF, based on the project visions identified as

priorities in the country’s climate change process (NDC, GCF country

programme, TNA, etc.)

Pilot programme funded by CTCN and implemented by UDP and AIT in

Guyana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Pakistan

Programme to be funded by GCF. Interest from Guatemala and Nepal

Incubator Programme for LDCs

To support countries achieve commitments in their NDCs through technology

roadmaps – Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar

Ongoing and planned CB activities (cont.)

Focal points workshop on linking UNFCCC mechanisms and initiatives to

accelerate technology transfer

CTCN NDEs, GCF NDAs, GEF, TNA, NAMA and NAP focal points discuss

country priorities and how to strengthen synergies to accelerate technology

transfer

Workshop for Asia took place in Bangkok on 17-18 March 2017

2017 Regional Forum’s

Organised back to back with the GCF structured dialogue

Objective to strengthen linkages and enhance collaboration between NDAs and

NDEs

Ongoing and planned CB activities (cont.)

Radboud Summer School - Climate Change Mitigation: Options and Policy

Engage in discussions on the prospects and attractiveness of specific mitigation

technologies, practices and policies from environmental, technical, economic,

social and institutional points of view.

Support up to a maximum of 10 participants from the Least Developed Countries

Invited to attend the first meeting of Paris Committee on Capacity

Building(PCCB) during SB meeting in Bonn

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CTCN Funding

Complementary resource potential for technical assistance

In-kind

Contribution by Consortium Partners, Network Members, and Governments (via NDEs, including non-Annex I in support of South-South Cooperation) for design and/or implementation of technical assistance

Multilateral Development Banks

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Financial Mechanism

Global Environment Facility

Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme

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