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
+-= SIDS
Technical Assistance across the technology innovation cycle
Technology Adaptation
Demonstration
Deployment
Diffusion
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Types of Assistance
Technical Assistance by Contribution to Sustainable Development Goals
*based on 16 selected technical assistance projects
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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
Implementation route
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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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Inactive Review Design Implementation Completed Funds
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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
Regional
Sub-regional
Financial Mechanism
Global Environment Facility
Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme
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