United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The United Nations Development Programme, headquartered in New York, New York, is the UN's global development network, with people working in 165 countries to help others build a better way of life. The UNDP is engaged in measures to reduce poverty, democratic governance worldwide, crisis prevention and recovery, HIV/AIDS, women's empowerment, and environmental and energy issues.[2]
The UNDP is interested in sustainable development abroad to allow everyone the access to clean natural resources and energy services. The UNDP is engaged at the global, national, and community level to help develop countries' own capacity to deal with these issues.[3]
Resources
UNDP Tools
- Best Practices in Non-Motorized Transport Planning, Implementation and Maintenance
- China and a Sustainable Future: Towards a Low Carbon Economy and Society
- Climate Finance Options Platform
- ClimateTechWiki
- Energy for Sustainable Development
- Forest Carbon Portal
- Low-Emission Development Strategies and National Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Europe and CIS
- Managing the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process
- Screening Tools and Guidelines
- Technology Needs Assessment Handbook
- Toward Low Carbon and Climate Change Resilient Territories
- UN-REDD Workshop: Monitoring, Assessment and Verification
- UNDP-Catalysing Climate Finance: A Guidebook on Policy and Financing Options to Support Green, Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development
- UNDP-Charting a New Low-Carbon Route to Development
- UNDP-Climate Finance Options Platform
- UNDP-Energy Costing Tool
- UNDP-GEF Fuel Cell Bus Programme: Update
- UNDP-Human Development Reports
- UNDP-Low Carbon Portal
- UNDP-Low Emission Climate Resilient Development Strategies (LECRDS) Guidance Manuals and Toolkits
UNDP Programs
- African Adaptation Programme
- Asia Least-Cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement Study
- Benefits of Tropical Forest Management Under the New Climate Change Agreement—A Case Study in Cambodia
- Burundi-National Adaptation Plan of Action to Climate Change
- Colombia-UNDP Climate Activities
- Compiling RES Legislation for Kazakhstan
- Democratic Republic of Congo-REDD Programme
- Ethiopia-Climate Change National Adaptation Programme of Action
- Ghana-UNDP Climate Activities
- Kenya-Affecting Electricity Policy through a Community Micro Hydro Project
- Kenya-UNDP Climate Activities
- Mexico-UNDP Climate Activities
- Moldova National Inventory Report - Lessons Learned
- Peru-UNDP Climate Activities
- REDD+ In Dryland Forests
- South Africa-UNDP Activities
- Supporting Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Development (SEED)
- UN-REDD Programme
- UNDP Sustainable Energy
- UNDP-Adaptation Learning Mechanism
- UNDP/GEF-Cambodia-Sustainable Forest Management
- Uganda-Demonstrating Wind and Solar Energy on Lake Victoria
- Ukraine-Capacity Building for Low Carbon Growth