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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