The vision of the Frankfurt School (FS) - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (the Centre) is to advance transformation to resilient low-carbon and resource-efficient economies by attracting new types of investors, in particular catalysing the financing of clean energy by the private sector, which has a...
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has assembled a ‘Media Toolkit’, making freely available, resources for discussion, education and reporting purposes, to encourage understanding of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The toolkit supports CDKN's four reports which distil key messages for Africa, South Asia and Small Island Developing States...
There is a growing menu of climate funds that can be used to catalyze other sources for integrated investments in climate-resilient and low-carbon solutions. Policy makers and project planners in developing countries at national and city levels need access to information on all aspects of climate finance. The UNDP/World Bank...
This free-of charge e-course will provide “everything you need to know” about the basics of climate change. It is structured around 6 Modules: Climate Change Science; International Legal and Policy Framework for Climate Change; Climate Change Adaptation; Climate Change Mitigation and Low Carbon Development; Climate Change Finance; and Climate Change...
The REDD+ Academy is a coordinated REDD+ capacity development initiative led by the UN-REDD Programme and the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit, which seeks to match the scale of the global climate change mitigation challenge and enable systematic, focused capacity development to deliver REDD+ on the ground. The Academy...
The course is aimed to strengthen the competences of trade unionists who are involved in promoting sustainable development and decent work. Links will be established between climate change, employment and the principle of just transition to a green economy. Emphasis will be put on the ILO Decent Work agenda as...
The course explores the competencies needed for execution of socially and environmentally responsible procurement while upholding value for money (VFM). It explains the process for development of Sustainable Procurement Plans at national or organizational levels, their contents and targets. At procurement implementation level the course explains how social and environmental...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been producing a series of manuals, guidebooks and toolkits that draw upon the experience and information generated by UNDP’s support for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects and National Communications to the UNFCCC in some 140 countries over the past decade. They are...
The note provides methodological and organizational guidance to countries interested in taking a strategic approach to climate change learning and skills development. In particular, it lays out the process of developing a National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development -...
This document reviews literature to provide a background for the CDKN research project "Gender equality and Climate Compatible Development- Drivers and challenges to people’s empowerment". The project addresses major knowledge gaps in relation to the gender dimension of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and development. Its aim is to strengthen the evidence base of gender-sensitive approaches to climate compatible development (CCD). The project will explore to what extent gender-sensitive approaches contribute to greater gender equality and more effective CCD. It will therefore help to create more nuanced gender analysis of CCD projects, provide compelling evidence of the benefits of gender-sensitive approaches to CCD and translate usable insights for policy and practice while supporting people’s empowerment.