On July 13, 2022, the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) granted full membership to the GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute. This new development is related to the EEMI’s pending partnership with the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be memorialized by a Memorandum of Understanding between GW and the UNFCCC that presently is under review at the UNFCCC Secretariat’s headquarters in Bonn, Germany.
The CTCN is the operational arm of the UNFCCC, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN Industrial Development Organization. The Centre promotes the accelerated transfer of environmentally sound technologies for low carbon and climate resilient development at the request of developing countries. It provides technology solutions, capacity building and advice on policy, legal and regulatory frameworks tailored to the needs of individual countries.
The CTCN facilitates the transfer of technologies by providing services to developing countries to accelerate the transfer of climate technologies, creating access to information and knowledge on climate technologies, and fostering collaboration among climate technology stakeholders via its network of regional and sectoral experts from academia, the private sector, and public and research institutions.
Through these services, it seeks to use climate technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate vulnerability, improve local innovation capacities, and increase investments in climate technology projects.
View the formal CTCN certification of EEMI’s membership.
More information about the CTCN can be seen at https://www.ctc-n.org/about-ctcn