UNEP DTU Partnership

Low Carbon Development Program

Karen Holm Olsen

Senior Researcher

UNFCCC Regional Workshop on NAMAs in Africa, 1-3 October 2014, Windhoek

UNEP and UNEP DTU NAMA related activities

Projects & Technical Support

Institutional Capacity Building & Partnerships

Analytical work & Publications

Facilitating Implementation and readiness for Mitigation (FIRM) NAMA Development for the Building sector in Asia Low Carbon Mobility Plan for three cities in India Green Facility – Ghana and Maldives Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Regional Gateway for Technology Transfer and Climate Change Action (REGATTA). Regional NAMAs studies and NAMAs Prioritisation Framework for Philippines National and Sectoral LCDS - Baselines

NAMA Academy Individual Coaching for NAMAs to partner countries GG/LCD training in the Emirates NAMA Partnership & LEDS GP Africa & LA Carbon Forums Energy Efficiency Hub

Institutional challenges for NAMAs Financial engineering Understanding NAMAs SD impacts of NAMAs MRV of NAMAs NAMA Handbook NAMA Guidebook for Enlighten

Capacity building for LCDS, NAMAs and CDM

• FIRM – LCDS and NAMAs • ADMIRE • TNA • Green Energy & LCD –

www.dfcgreenfellows.net • NAMAcademy - www.namacademy.org

Projects

Analytical activities

Data base and analysis providing monthly

• NAMA data & analysis & CDM&JIPipeline

o A web based data base compiling CDM projects

o Analysis and market surveillance

o Projections of GHG emission reductions

o Calculation of different parameters

o It also contains the baseline & monitoring methodologies, a list of DOEs and several analyses. Almost all information is from cdm.unfccc.int and ji.unfccc.int.

Regional activities

•Africa Carbon Forum, Senegal, Sep. 2008; Kenya, March 2010; Morocco July 2011.

•Latin America Carbon Forums, Quito 2006, Lima 2007, Santiago 2008, Panama 2009, DR 2010; Costa Rica, 2011

Knowledge and information sharing platforms

Bring together CDM stakeholders to benefit from:

Updates on Carbon markets; technical knowledge sharing on conferences; trade fair and capacity-development sessions,

Organizers: IETA, UNEP/Risø, WB, OLADE, UNDP, and UNFCCC

Investment mobilization and engaging the finance sector

Regional Carbon Forums

• African Bankers’ Carbon Finance Investment Forum. May 2007, Johannesburg

• Dakar, Senegal: Carbon finance perspectives for the banking sector. Feb 12-14, 2008

• Training finance sector staff – Regional Financial Sector CDM Forum, Lima, Nov 2008

• Finance guidebook

Thank you!!

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