Six
nations submit requests to support new UN Climate Technology Centre
Peter Labeja
Copenhagen/Bonn, 25 June
2014
– Developing countries are now beginning to make active use of the United
Nation’s new global network for climate technology solutions, the Climate
Technology Centre and Network (CTCN).
This constitutes a promising signal
that momentum for climate action is building ahead of a new, universal climate
agreement in 2015.
So far this year, six countries have
submitted eight requests for technology assistance to the CTCN, which is
headquartered in Copenhagen. These include Afghanistan, Bhutan, Chile,
Colombia, Honduras and Pakistan.
The requests for support relate to a
broad range of climate action, from renewable energy policies to public
transportation, and from biodiversity monitoring to saving mangrove forests for
coastal protection.
Welcoming the development, Achim
Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said: “Innovation is the engine of
development, and replacing current technologies with cleaner, low-carbon
alternatives is a vital part of tackling the causes and effects of climate
change. The Climate Technology Centre and Network works to accelerate the use
of new technologies in improving the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in developing countries who are
dealing with the impacts of climate change on a daily basis.”
According to Christiana Figueres,
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC), the growing use of the CTCN is encouraging and now needs the
necessary finance.
“As countries work towards a universal
climate agreement in Paris in 2015, the CTCN provides yet another foundation
upon which optimism and action is being built. For it to fully flourish and
provide maximum support to developing country ambitions, the requests for
support now need to be matched with the finance required, most notably through
swift and sufficient capitalization of the Green Climate Fund,” she said.
Last week, the board of the Green
Climate Fund (GCF) completed the essential policy requirements to make the fund
operational. The GCF was established as a prime global channel to deliver
public funds and to leverage private sector finance for developing country
climate action.
Meanwhile, the CTCN has put all central
requirements for the transfer of technology in place.
Since its launch in late 2013, over 80
countries have established national CTCN focal points (known as National
Designated Entities) who work with country stakeholders to develop and relay
requests to the Climate Technology Centre’s network of regional and sectoral
experts from academia, the private sector, and public and research
institutions.
A side event on the progress to date of
the Technology Mechanism and the CTCN was held on the margins of Bonn Climate Change Conference on 7 June, 18:30-20:00.
This side event was organized
collaboratively by the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and the CTCN. It
will opened by UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, and will include
presentations by the Director of the CTCN, Mr. Jukka Uosukainen, and the Chairs
of the TEC and the CTCN. More information: http://goo.gl/PUK0Kp.
For
more information, please contact:
Karina Larsen, CTCN Knowledge & Communications Manager: +45 4533 5373; karina.larsen(at)unep.org
Karina Larsen, CTCN Knowledge & Communications Manager: +45 4533 5373; karina.larsen(at)unep.org
Nick Nuttall, Coordinator,
Communications and Outreach: +49 228 815 1400; +49 152 0168
4831 nnuttall(at)unfccc.int
John
Hay, Communications Officer: +49 172 258 6944; jhay(at)unfccc.int
Website: unfccc.int
Website: unfccc.int
To read the
original article: follow this link
http://www.un.org/climatechange/blog/2014/06/02/six-nations-submit-requests-to-support-new-un-climate-technology-centre/
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