For 30 years, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre has worked with energy, climate and sustainable development in developing countries around the world.

The partnership’s vast experience now makes it a leading research-based advisory organization, for facilitating developing countries reach their energy, climate and sustainable development goals.

The staff at UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre are not only experts at implementing energy and climate projects, their expertise is underpinned by the latest science, used to qualify solutions in developing countries.

At the same time, the Centre’s staff represent all geographical regions with in-depth knowledge of regional and country conditions.

In addition, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre works with a wide network of collaborating partners in 100 countries to implement projects quickly and efficiently in partnership with local stakeholders.

UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre’s expertise is anchored in five areas of specialization represented in the sections below.

Section for Mitigation Analysis and Data Management

Analyses efforts to reduce emissions or enhance sinks of greenhouse gases with the aim to inform the preparation and implementation of climate policies and action. Provides in-depth technical advice as well as tracking tools and MRV systems.

Section for Impact assessment and Adaptation Analysis

Identifies and analyses context-specific sectoral planning and policy options, including barriers and enablers for private sector action. Develops and utilises methodologies to measure and track effects, gaps, and trends in climate adaptation and mitigation, while looking at synergies between climate and broader sustainable development goals.

Section for Institutional Development

Provides the institutional development expertise required to engage on policy, planning, transparency and market development and for climate policy integration into regular development processes.
Analyses institutional strengths and weaknesses to support new or weak institutions at government, regional and local level.

Section for Technology – Transitions and System Innovation

Identifies and assesses barriers and enablers for climate technology transfer and diffusion. Focuses on country needs in technology deployment and facilitates market based innovation with an overall emphasis on creating enabling frameworks for technology transfer.

Section for Business Models and Finance

Works directly with the private sector, including financial institutions, using cutting-edge expertise and analysis on successful project development and implementation models.
Bridges existing institutional gaps and operates through partnerships, financial architecture concepts and development of business models.