Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Project - Phase IV

May 2021- Present

The Bahamas and St. Kitts & Nevis

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Head of the Regional Centre - working as the team leader to provide technical support to the TNA process, country coordinators and local consultants hired under the project. The TNA is designed to determine technology priorities for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to climate change.

UNEP and UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, with financing from the Global Environment Facility, are implementing a fourth phase of Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs). The fourth phase of the project supports seventeen Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in carrying out new or improved TNAs, from 2020 to 2023.
The objective of the TNA project is to support countries in assessing and articulating their technology needs for both climate change adaptation and mitigation. TNAs represent a unique opportunity for countries to track their needs for new equipment, techniques, services, capacities and skills necessary to mitigate and adapt to climate change and provide information about the potential, ability and scale of climate technologies at the country-level.
In particular, the TNAs lead to the development of national Technology Action Plans (TAPs) that prioritize technologies, recommend enabling frameworks for the diffusion of these technologies and facilitate identification of technology transfer projects and their links to relevant financing sources. The TAPs systematically address practical actions necessary to reduce or remove policy, finance and technology related barriers.