Jamaica - TT-Pilot (GEF-4): Introduction of Renewable Wave Energy Technologies for the Generation of Electric Power in Small Coastal Communities in Jamaica

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNDP, Ministry of Energy and Mining, and the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica’s Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy
    Summary:

    The main objective of the project is the introduction of renewable wave energy in a Small Island Developing State like Jamaica for the electrification of coastal rural communities (both on and off-grid) and to contribute to lowering the risk of these communities exposure to high energy storm waves.

    Background

    Project Components:
    • 1. Wave Energy Conversion Technology Assessment
    • 2. Capacity Building and Training
    • 3. Policy and Regulatory Support
    • 4. Demonstration Wave Energy Pilot Projects
    • 5. Project management
    Expected Outputs:
    • 1. Documented Techno-economic feasibility assessments of potential WEC application projects, and of local production of WEC components.
    • 2. Workshop and training courses to increase technical capabilities of government agencies and targeted civil society institutions (NGOs, universities, consulting companies) developed and delivered.
    • 3. Regulatory Framework about Wave Energy in place. Short Term National Wave Energy Strategy defined.
    • 4. Documented results of the implemented WEC application demos; Identified and designed other WEC application projects.
    Contacts:

    UNDP Regional Technical Advisor

    Project Status:
    Under implementation
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    Local communities
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    GEF-SCCF
    Cofinancing Total:
    $ 1,420,00
    Total Amounts:
    $ 2,161,400

TT-Pilot (GEF-4): Renewable CO2 Capture and Storage from Sugar Fermentation Industry in Sao Paulo State

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency:
    UNDP
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    Brazil Ministry of Science and Technology
    Summary:

    Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is considered as a very promising potential technology to mitigate climate change, it involves the separation of CO2 from industrial and energy-related sources, transport to a storage location and long-term isolation from the atmosphere. Most efforts carried out to date deal with CCS related to fossil fuel use and require large investments, even at the demonstration level. CCS is usually a complex process since carbon capture may involve chemical and physical processes and requires energy.

    Project Components:

    Component A: Establishment of Enabling Environment for RCCS Technology Transfer
    Component B: RCCS Technology Demonstration
    Component C: Capacity Building on RCCS Technology Application

    Expected Outputs:

    This project proposes the development of RCCS from CO2 emitted from sugar fermentation in a demonstration plant at a sugar/ethanol mill in Sao Paulo state. During fermentation, gaseous is released in 100% concentration and free of other gases (Nitrogen, CO) and impurities (e.g. sulphur, hydrocarbons, and acids) for underground storage. Thus, this project aims to store already clean CO2 emissions from sugar fermentation underground in available saline formations (see figure below showing storage prospectivity in the region of Sao Paulo).

    Contacts:

    John Hough
    UNDP/GEF
    Deputy Executive Coordinator

    Diego Masera
    Climate Change Regional Technical Advisor
    diego.masera@undp.org
    (507)302-4594

    Project Status:
    Pending
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    Industry and workers
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)
    Cofinancing Total:
    $ 7,715,000
    Total Amounts:
    $ 10,415,000

Yes, We Cancun on Climate Change?

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Scientific American

After Copenhagen, the world reconvenes to try to combat climate change. David Biello reports

Full Article

Last year in Copenhagen, international negotiations to combat climate change fractured. And the rifts have not healed. Developing countries want recognition of the long history of greenhouse gas pollution by developed nations. And they remain skeptical of the Copenhagen Accord.

Tackling climate change in the refugee Chad camp area in eastern Chad

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  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNHCR
    Summary:

    UNHCR and its partners, including the Chad government, are addressing the effects of climate change with programmes aimed at better management of dwindling water resources and at holding back desertification by planting trees in one of the driest and hottest countries on earth.

     

    Contacts:

    Andrej Mahecic
    Senior Information Officer
    UNHCR Geneva
    Phone: +41 22 739 86 57
    Mobile: +41 79 200 76 17
    E-mail: mahecic@unhcr.org

    Project Status:
    Under implementation
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    Information not available
    Financing Amount:
    Information not available
    Cofinancing Total:
    Information not available
    Total Amounts:
    Information not available

Climate Change Adaptation: The Pivotal Role of Water

Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2010-06-22 14:36
Author(s):
UN-Water
Year:
2010
Pages:
18
Summary:
Climate change adaptation UN-Water policy brief

Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences Earth’s ecosystem and thus the livelihood and well-being of societies. Higher temperatures and changes in extreme weather conditions are projected to affect availability and distribution of rainfall, snowmelt, river flows and groundwater, and further deteriorate water quality. If addressed inadequately, management of water resources will jeopardize progress on poverty reduction targets and sustainable development in all economic, social and environmental dimensions.

Promoting Autonomous Adaptation at the Community Level in Ethiopia

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  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNDP, Federal Environment Protection Agency, Addis Ababa Environment Protection Agency
    Summary:

    Climate change is already affecting the security of Ethiopia’s sustainable development. Rain-fed agricultural production, mushrooming population growth, and a decline in per capita environmental resource availability (including arable land, water, pasture, forest and biodiversity) render the livelihoods of the majority of the population sensitive to climate-related shocks including drought and flooding.

    Project Components:

    This UNDP-GEF project is designed to address projected climate change impacts and their underlying causes in relation to low agricultural productivity, poor access to risk-reducing instruments, and poor supply of extension advice and gender inequality. The project will help Ethiopian communities adapt by providing them with the tools needed for anticipatory and autonomous adaptation (i.e. climate risk information, financing, insurance, technical support). By developing capacity to routinely include climate risks into planning processes, planning authorities will be able to provision appropriate levels of support to communities to help them adapt.

    Outcome 1 will work to improve capacity and approaches for integrated climate impact analysis, future implementation planning and costing (including identification of technologies and knowledge needs) at the sub-national level in a way that supports local stakeholder participation in adaptation planning.

    Outcome 2 will work to improve access for development agents and communities to adaptation techniques and practices. Local centers of excellence will provide capacity development services.

    Under Outcome 3, the project will use two critical risk-reducing factors – access to information and access to financial instruments – to incentivise local adoption and adaptation of climate resilience enhancing techniques and practices.

    Expected Outputs:

    Objective: To support local communities and administrations at the level of government to design and implement adaptation actions aimed at reducing vulnerability and building resilience, especially in those communities that are particularly vulnerable

    • By the end of the project at least two national programmes will have mainstreamed climate change adaptation into their practice based on lessons learned from this LDCF project
    • By the end of the project at least four Woreda and one Regional development plan will have been revised to incorporate climate change risks and opportunities
    • By the end of the project, 5000 subsistence farmers have adopted adaptation measures, and climate resilient agricultural production has increased by 12.5% in target areas compared to baseline (1t/ha maize) and adjusted for rainfall.

    Outcome 1: Sub-national institutional capacities for coordinated climate-resilient planning and investment strengthened

    • By project end, four Woreda and one Regional task teams have been trained in and use climate-related vulnerability and risk assessments in an integrated area-based planning approach.
    • Average CCA capacity score in the four Woreda and one Regional level is 3 for both men and women.
    • Climate resilient investment strategies based on integrated climate resilient development plans are in place and attracting funding for four Woreda &one Regional area.

    Outcome 2: Access to technologies and practices that improve the range and efficiency of adaptation options improved

    • By project end, 5000 subsistence farmers (83% male-headed, 17% female-headed) have been trained in and tested on climate change resilience building techniques and practices, of which 35% of both male and female headed farming households have adopted such practices permanently.
    • By project end, five project task teams from four Woreda and one Regional administration have the capacity to transfer adaptation technologies with a capacity score of 3.

    Outcome 3: Capacity for community-based climate change adaptation improved

    • By project end at least 25% of the men and 25% of the women in the target communities are using innovative mechanisms to insure against the inherent uncertainty of climate change.
    • By project end climate resilient agricultural production has increased by 12.5% in target areas compared to baseline (1t/ha maize) and for adjusted for rainfall.
    Contacts:

    UNDP Regional Technical Advisor

    Project Status:
    Project Time Frame: 2012-2015
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    Subsistence farmers in 4 Woredas [districts] and Addis Ababa
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    GEF-LDCF
    Financing Amount:
    GEF Project Grant (LDCF): US$5,307,885
    Cofinancing Total:
    22,650,000
    Total Amounts:
    28,059,385

Advancing technology transfer for climate change mitigation: considerations for technology orientated agreements promoting energy efficiency and carbon capture and storage (CCS)

Submitted by robertaannan on Sat, 2010-03-27 02:56
Author(s):
Carl Dalhammar, Philip Peck, Naoko Tojo, Luis Mundaca, Lena Neij
Year:
2009
City:
Lund
Publisher:
IIIEE Lund university
Volume:
3
Pages:
138
Summary:

The role of technology and technology transfer have emerged as key issues in recent climate change negotiations. The technologies required for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions have been largely identified for both the short and long term, and deployment scales required to mitigate climate change have been analyzed. However a key issue remains that of rapidly progressing such technologies from niche applications in a limited number of countries, to widespread deployment so as to displace incumbent high-carbon technology systems.

Climate Change and Technology Transfer: The Need for a Regional Perspective - Policy Brief No. 18

Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2010-01-07 09:29
Author(s):
Ivan Vera
Year:
July 2009
City:
New York
Publisher:
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Pages:
2
Summary:

UN-DESA Policy Brief features synopses of key policy analysis intended to frame issues, inform decisions and guide policy action in the economic, social and environmental arena.

This policy brief discusses climate change in relation to the importance of transferring technology from a regional perspective. Noting that, "Regional mechanisms that allow for pooling of resources and achieving economies of scale could provide a bridge between what global arrangements can offer and what developing countries need in terms of cost-effective action programmes tailored to their own context."

Acting on Climate Change: The UN System Delivering as One

Submitted by andrea on Sat, 2009-09-26 00:33
Summary:

This publication has been prepared by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), through its High-level Committee on Programmes (HLCP). It brings together information on activities undertaken throughout the United Nations system, including its agencies, funds and programmes, as contributed by the respective entities. The information was compiled by the CEB Secretariat, while the illustrations, photos and formatting have been provided by the UN Department of Public Information, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Produced at United Nations Headquarters, New York in November 2008

Technology Needs Assessments

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency:
    UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
    Summary:

    ##### Description
    As part of the GEF Strategic Programme on Technology Transfer, the project will provide targeted financial and technical support that assists developing countries in carrying out improved Technology Needs Assessments (TNA) within the framework of Article 4.5 of the UNFCCC.

    Project Components:

    1. Support the development of Technology Needs Assessments in 35-45 developing countries or, where these have already been prepared, their strengthening to make them more strategic and useful in an operational sense.
    2. Development of tools and provision of technology information that supports preparation of TNAs.
    3. Establishment of a cooperation mechanism that aids preparation and refinement of TNAs through sharing of experience and that fosters implementation of identified measures.

    Expected Outputs:

    1. Supported countries have: developed a national consensus on priority technologies, agreed on a technology action plan compatible with Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or similar exercises, established an institutional structure for overseeing implementation, and developed capabilities to revise or adapt the plan as needed.
    2. Multi-criteria methodology for identifying mitigation technologies and technologies for adaptation most appropriate for national circumstances available for use by developing countries.
    3. Multi-criteria methodology for identifying mitigation technologies and technologies for adaptation most appropriate for national circumstances available for use by developing countries. Increased national and interregional cooperation on technology transfer as a means of facilitating the preparation of TNAs.

    Contacts:

    Project Contact Person
    George Manful
    Task Manager, UEP/DGEF
    Tel: +254-762-5058
    Email: George.manful@unep.org

    Project Status:
    Council Approved
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)
    Financing Amount:
    8,181,818
    Cofinancing Total:
    2,855,000
    Total Amounts:
    11,036,818