United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

UNEP's mission is "To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations."

United Nations Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative

SEFI is the UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative - a platform providing financiers with the tools, support, and global network needed to conceive and manage investments in the complex and rapidly changing marketplace for clean energy technologies.

SEFI's goal is to foster investment in sustainable energy projects by providing up-to-date investor information, facilitating deal origination, developing partnerships, and creating the momentum needed to shift sustainable energy from the margins of energy supply to the mainstream.

UNEP Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative

Objective of the Initiative To achieve its final objective of promoting a worldwide adoption of sustainable buildings and construction practices, SBCI is implementing a process in 4 steps.

• STEP 1 - Provide a common platform for the stakeholders

SBCI provides a common platform to all buildings and construction stakeholders for addressing sustainability issues of global significance, especially climate change.

• STEP 2 - Establish baselines

SBCI establishes globally acknowledged baselines based on the life cycle approach, with a first focus on energy efficiency and CO2 emissions.

• STEP 3 - Develop tools and stategies

SBCI will develop tools and strategies for achieving a wide acceptance and adoption of sustainable building practices throughout the world.

• STEP 4 - Implementation through pilot projects

SBCI promotes to key stakeholders the adoption of the above tools and strategies which will be evaluated through pilot projects.

Outcomes, Lessons Learned and Good Practices

Presentation		Title	Date
	United Nations Environment Programme	EU-UNDP Capacity Building Programme on Climate Change	2011-02-02
	United Nations Environment Programme	Technology Needs Assessment and Related UNEP Initiatives	2011-02-02

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UNEP Tools

• Asia-Energy Efficiency Guide to Industry
• Buildings and Climate Change
• Catalyzing Low Carbon Growth in Developing Countries
• Clean Development Mechanism Pipeline
• Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector
• ClimateTechWiki
• Common Carbon Metric
• En.lighten Country Lighting Assessments (CLAs)
• Energy for Sustainable Development
• Financing a Global Deal on Climate Change
• Global Climate Change: Risk to Bank Loans
• Global Framework for Climate Risk Exposure
• Global Fuel Economy Initiative
• Global Fuel Economy Initiative Auto Fuel Efficiency ToolSet
• Green Economy: Developing Country Success Stories
• IPCC Data Distribution Centre
• IPCC Emission Factor Database
• IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• IPCC Inventory Guidelines LULUCF
• Integrated Assessment
• Making Africa’s Power Sector Sustainable: An Analysis of Power Sector Reforms in Africa
• Managing the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process
• Private Financing of Renewable Energy: A Guide for Policymakers
• Public Finance Mechanisms to Catalyze Sustainable Energy Sector Growth
• Public Finance Mechanisms to Increase Investment in Energy Efficiency
• Public Finance Mechanisms to Mobilize Investment in Climate Change Mitigation
• Public Transport: Moving towards Sustainable Mobility
• Publicly Backed Guarantees as Policy Instruments to Promote Clean Energy
• REDD Collaborative Online Workspace
• Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA)
• Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation: Transport Sector
• Tematea: Issue Based Modules for Coherent Implementation of Biodiversity Conventions
• Toward Low Carbon and Climate Change Resilient Territories
• UN-REDD Workshop: Monitoring, Assessment and Verification
• UNEP Climate Change Resource Kit
• UNEP Energy Resource Kit
• UNEP Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009 Report
• UNEP Handbook for Drafting Laws on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Resources
• UNEP Toolkit for Clean Fleet Strategy Development
• UNFCCC-Global Map-Annex 1
• United Nations Environment Programme: Global Environment Outlook

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UNEP Programs

• Agriculture Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED)
• China-Assessing Policy Options for Increasing the Use of Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development
• En.lighten
• Energy Efficiency and the Finance Sector
• Ghana-Assessing Policy Options for Increasing the Use of Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development
• Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)
• Mexico - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baselines and Reduction Potentials from Buildings
• Patents and Clean Energy: Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Policy
• Policy Agenda for Addressing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Copenhagen and Beyond
• REDD+ In Dryland Forests
• Regional Climate Change Adaptation Platform for Asia
• Rwanda-National Adaptation Programs of Action to Climate Change
• Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA)
• South Africa - Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines and Reduction Potentials from Buildings
• Supporting Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Development (SEED)
• Tanzania-National Adaptation Programme of Action
• The UNEP-SEFI Public Finance Alliance
• UN-REDD Programme
• UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative
• UNEP-GEF Renewable Energy Project Financial Risk Management in Developing Countries
• UNEP-Southeast Asia Climate Change Network
• Uganda-National Adaptation Programme of Action
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-Finance Initiative

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