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Webinar

15/04/2020

2PM-3PM CET

Technology Needs Assessment

Sara Trærup – UNEP DTU PartnershipVladimir Hecl – UNFCCC

Samba Fall - ENDA ÉnergieMaxwell Otim – TNA coordinator Uganda

Moderated by Léa Jehl Le Manceau – UNEP DTU Partnership

Agenda of the webinar

Introduction to the webinar

Léa Jehl Le Manceau, TNA Project Assistant - UNEP DTU Partnership

Introduction to the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project in Africa

Sara Trærup, TNA Global Project Manager - UNEP DTU Partnership

TNAs and the UNFCCC process

Vladimir Hecl, Programme Officer - UNFCCC

ENDA's regional views on the TNA project

Samba Fall, Project Officer - ENDA Énergie

National perspectives on the TNA process

Maxwell Otim, TNA Coordinator & Director Science, Research and Innovation - Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Uganda

Q&A session


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Vladimir Hecl is Programme Officer at the UNFCCC, Bonn,Germany. He received Ph.D. from Technical University in Zvolen,Slovakia in 2012 from assessment of NOx production from shortrotation biomass combusting. After over 10 years working atEnergy Centre Bratislava, he served as project officer inIntelligent Europe Energy Agency of the DG TREN of theEuropean Commission. In 2006 Vladimir joined the technologyimplementation team of the UNFCCC, working in technologynegotiations, and in technology needs assessments of non-AnnexI Parties to the UNFCCC, including both mitigation and adaptationtechnologies.

Sara Trærup joined UNEP DTU in 2005. She has supporteddeveloping countries in identifying their technology needs, andhelped build capacity for accessing finance for implementingthese technologies. She is both the global project manager forthe TNA project and regional coordinator for Africa.Sara has a background in agricultural economics, and a PhD insocioeconomic aspects of climate change adaptation.

Maxwell Otim Onapa is the Director Science, Research and Innovation at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MoSTI). He is currently the coordinator of the Climate Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) for Uganda. In addition to that, Mr. Otim is the National Lead Negotiator for Uganda on climate technology development and transfer at the COP, and serves as the National Designated Entity (NDE) of the Climate Technology Centre Network (CTCN)Before joining the Ministry, Dr. Otim served as the Deputy Executive Secretary of Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) for 13 year; from 2006 to 2019 when he retired to join the Ministry.

Samba Fall is an agro-economist engineer and is project officer at EndaEnergie. His main professional areas include the technical assistance toelaborate and implement projects and programs focused on technologyneeds assessment and technology transfer. He provides technical assistanceto a range of 12 African countries and conducts regional training workshopsand in-country technical assistance for the implementation of TNA project.Samba is leading the secretariat and matters of the West African Alliance forcarbon market and climate finance (WACC) and is a technical project assistantof in-country support of GHG inventories and climate risk assessment andplanning.


The global Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project

Africa

Sara Trærup ([email protected])

Webinar15 April 2020

www.tech-action.org

What are the Technology Needs Assessments?

- climate technology pathways for implementing the Paris Agreement

TNAs are a set of activities that identify and analyse mitigation and adaptationtechnology priorities of developing countries

Funded by the Global Environment Facility, implemented by UN Environment through UNEP DTU Partnership

www.tech-action.org

http://www.tech-action.org/

Regional capacity building workshops

Technical support missions

National trainings

Help desk

e-learning

guidebooks & tools

Regional activities

Adaptation

Mitigation

Priority sectors, Africa

Agriculture Water

Priority Technologies for Adaptation,Africa

Energy sector

Priority Technologies for Mitigation- Africa

The ecosystems - requirements for technology transfer, implementation and uptake to be successful

ESWATINI (TNA 2018)

TNA priority technologies for adaptation were integrated into the Eco-Lubombo Biosphere project under the auspices of

UNESCO. also forms part of a Green Climate Fund proposal and are included in Eswatini's

Readiness Programme were included in a successful proposal to the Africa Climate Fund were integrated in its Nationally Determined Contribution

Hybrid vehicles, in particular fully hybrid vehiclesHybrid cars are currently not on the market in Tunisia because of a lack of approved standards and the very low knowledge of the technology.

The Government has now introduced a national program in support of hybrid cars.

appropriate regulatory and legal framework and by building the capacity of relevant stakeholders.

‘High Performance Engines’ for the energy industry sector is incorporated into Tunisia’s Green Climate Fund Readiness Programme.

Tunisia (TNA 2018)

More information on TNAsavailable at:

www.tech-action.org and http://unfccc.int/ttclear/

Sara Traerup

[email protected]

Explore TNA reports and country priorities..


http://unfccc.int/ttclear/

mailto:[email protected]

Vladimir Hecl

UNFCCC Technology team

Climate Technologies and Technology

Needs Assessment activities in Africa

UNEP DTU & UNFCCC Webinar

April 15, 2020

Technology in Paris Agreement


• Parties share a long term vision on importance of fully realizing technology

development and transfer in order to improve resilience to climate change, and to

reduce GHG emissions.

• Establishment of technology framework to provide guidance to the work of

technology mechanism in promoting and facilitating enhanced action on technology

development and transfer in order to support the implementation of the PA.

• Parties to the UNFCCC shall strengthen cooperative action on technology

development and transfer.

• The Technology Mechanism established under the Convention shall serve PA.


To operationalize Paris Agreement, the COP in its Decision

1/CP.21, (para. 67) requested the SBSTA to initiate elaboration of

the Technology Framework which should:

• Facilitate undertaking and updating TNAs, and implement their

results via bankable projects,

• Provide enhanced finance and technical support,

• Assess technologies that are ready for transfer,

• Enhance enabling environments for, and address barriers to,

development and transfer of environmentally and socially sound

technologies.


Key themes of the Technology Framework:

• Innovation

• Implementation (TNAs)

• Enabling environments and capacity building

• Collaboration and stakeholder engagement

• Support


Implementation:

• Actions and activities under this key theme should also facilitate the

implementation of mitigation and adaptation action identified using planning tools

and processes such as:

- nationally determined contributions,

- long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies,

- technology needs assessments,

- national adaptation plans,

- technology road maps and

- other relevant policies,

and facilitate overcoming challenges by implementing such action.


Implementation:

TNA discussed workstreams:

• Facilitating the undertaking and updating of TNAs, as well as enhancing the

implementation of their results, particularly technology action plans and project ideas,

and capacity building related to TNAs.

• Promoting the alignment of TNAs with NDCs and NAPs in order to increase

coherence between the implementation of those national plans with national strategies

to achieve climate-resilient and low-emission development.

• Reviewing the TNA guidelines and updating them as necessary with a view to TNAs

leading to plans and implementation that are aligned with the transformational changes

envisioned in the Paris Agreement.

TNA compilation and synthesis

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GEF TNA GLOBAL SUPPORT PROJECT

$25 million in GEF financi

ng

99 countr

ies

4 Phases of

Global TNA

support

project

TNA of developing countries (2019)

• The 4th TNA synthesis report covers the finalized TNA

reports of 53 non-Annex I Parties that were submitted

by 20 August 2019

• TNA reports were submitted by 21 Parties from Africa,

18 Parties from the Asia-Pacific region and 14 Parties

from Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Energy production in mitigation and Agriculture and

Water were reported by African countries as the

sectors with most of climate technology needs.

TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices

4th TNA synthesis report



Mitigation Adaptation

• Main barriers to implementation of these technologies

reported by countries were:

• Poor infrastructure to further develop markets

• Missing laws and regulations,

• Lack of governmental guarantees for investors

• Lack of skilled personnel,

• Missing information about trends and new needs

and approaches.



• Describes gaps, challenges and good practices of the TNA

implementation process,

• Provides overview of good practices of TNA implementation,

• Delivers examples of ways to enhance implementation of TNAs,

• Offers recommendations on actions for enhancing the

implementation of TNA results on various levels: domestic,

regional, international, financial, private sector, others.


Content of a new TEC Policy Brief

• Lack of domestic capacities to facilitate

implementation,

• Limited access to funding sources in many developing

countries,

• Lack of involvement of funding institutions in the early

stages of the preparation of project proposals,

• Implementation-oriented approaches are not

sufficiently considered,

• Late engagement of funders with TNA teams,

• Mismatch between TNA identified priority needs and

priorities of donors.


Gaps and challenges

Mauritius

• In Mauritius, the TAP for waste heat recovery for energy efficient

boilers was used for preparing a proposal to the GEF, addressing

energy efficiency in industries. Mauritius also acquired funding from

the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to implement parts

of their TAP.

Success factors:

• Establishing the successful collaboration between the staff of

Mauritius’ FAREI and IAEA. Personal contacts and trust.


Good practices of TNA implementation

Senegal

• In Senegal, uptake of biomass-based technologies for electricity

production, as prioritized in the TNA has been accelerated through

public-private collaboration. The government provided a feed-in

tariff scheme for renewable energy technology use while a private

company was responsible for technology implementation.

Success factors:

• The way that responsibilities were shared between public and

private sectors stakeholders, as suggested by the TAP guidance.


Good practices of TNA implementation

• The engagement of stakeholders and ministries during the TNA and post-

TNA phase in order to include TNA-prioritised technologies in new or

ongoing governmental programmes,

• Co-development of TNAs and TAPs with NAMAs, NDCs, GEF, GCF and

AF pipelines helps to mainstream TNA outcomes in overarching national

strategies and programmes for climate and sust. dev.,

• Development of pilot projects to demonstrate technology options, with

financial support from multilateral funding programmes and development

partners, and technical support and advice from CTCN,

• Engage possible funders for the TAP activities in an early stage of the

TNA-TAP process, which can inform country stakeholders about what

funders will fund and avoid mismatches between countries’ and funders’

priorities,

• Consideration of TNA prioritised technology options in proposals

submitted to the GCF and other relevant institutions,

• Role of equipped and trained champions is key for projects success, to

continue work beyond TNA project timelines.


Ways to enhance implementation of TNAs

Domestic (capacity building, enabling environment)

• Further promotion of TNA results domestically with a view to enhance

their implementation,

• Experts from relevant bodies, such as Ministries of Finance, and

Energy/Economy, NDEs, NDAs and others could be introduced to

domestic TNA results as an opportunity to leverage their implementation

potential,

• Governments have a major role to play in creating the enabling

environments for technology transfer through strengthening of legal and

regulatory frameworks,

• An effective enabling environment for technology development and

transfer is often characterized by sound coordination and communication

among government departments and agencies, with the goal of

streamlining and easing the way for technology investment,

• Tracking of implementation of TNA results is not only included as a

final step of the TAP development, but also as an issue to be discussed

upon the start of the TNA process.


Recommendations on actions for enhancing the implementation of TNA results

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Thank you

Vladimir Hecl

UNFCCC secretariat, technology team

Regional Centre perspective on TNA in Africa : challenges and learnt lessons

Webinar: Climate technologies and technologies needs assessment acitivites in AfricaApril 15th 20202 – 3 PM (CET)

Samba FallENDA Energie (Regional TNA Centre for Africa)

SENEGAL

Enda Energie as Regional Centre for TNA in Africa

• Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Marocco, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Mauritius, Rwanda, Sudan, Zambia

TNA 1

(2009-2013)

• Burundi, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Tunisia, Togo, Mauritania

TNA 2

(2014-2018) • Benin, Central African Republic, Haïti, Chad, Djibouti, Guinea, Niger

TNA 3

(2018- 2021)

• Providing technical and process support to the participating

countries

•Side-events (CoP, ACF, workshop, webinar etc)

•In-country briefing meeting with authorities and potential donors

•Regional training workshops, technical review of guidebook

•in-country mission, permanent helpdesk on technical issues, technical review of all deliverables

In-country technical support

Global technical support

Sharing of experiences and lessons

learned

Facilitation for political

appropriation

Enda Energie as Regional Centre for TNA in Africa: Multiform technical support

Overall technical assistance and partnership development

TNA’s outputs : barriers & technology action plan (TAP)

Main TAPs highlighted the need for providing technical

assistance (feasibility studies, capacity building) and setting

up regulatory and institutional framework to

contribute to the deployment of technologies prioritized

• economic and financial constraints : high upfront cost (e.g. high cost for feasibility study and construction for micro-hydropower in Madagascar)

• technological challenges (e.g. low national expertise in the design of production equipment)

Key barriers

8%

19%

18%

16%

26%

13%

Strategic and operationalplanning/ M&E

Regulatory and institutionalframework

Access to finance and meansof production

Information/communication/dissemination

Technical assistance (feasabilitystudies, capacity buildingprogram (researcher, expert,student, etc)

Piloting actions(Innovation/R&D)

Types of TAPS

Conducting TNA process: challenges & learnt lessont

Prioritization technologies, barrier analysis and TAP

Sharing data constraints (e.g. performance, costs, benefits of technology)

Administrative/institutional burdens (delayingthe planning of working group)

-Capitalization of exisiting technologies

-Capacity building opportinuties

-Identification of appropriate risk for the TAP

Institutional arrangement

«institutional stove pipes »: creating manynational climate-related committee implyadministrative burdens, data sharing and stakeholder engagement issues

« do not reinvent the wheel»: align the TNA structure within the existing one (i.e. Togo’s NDC committee)

Existing national climate steering committee as TNA committee (Senegal, Togo, Sychelles)facilitate the political appropriation of TNA’s outputs and the interation with otherclimate processes (INDC, NAP, GCF, NAMA, etc.)

challenges

Learntlessons

Climate-relatedmechanism

(NDCs, NAP, NAMA) and

economic plan

TNA

Climate financing (GCF, AF,

GEF.)

TNA & climate-related

mechanisms & processes:

Interlinkages NDC aligned with sectors and technologies prioritized with TNA

TNA’s outputs : barrier analysis and

Technonology Action Plan (TAP) and

project ideas present relevant

background informations for the

elaboration of programmes/projects

(national budget, GCF, GEF, etc.) and

technology transfer assistance (CTCN: Mali-Deployment of climate services, Senegal-Development of energy efficiency projects in industries and services, etc.)

TNA supported country’s ClimateResponse Strategy (Zambia)

TNA team been key actors for the elaboration of national climate policies(NAP, INDC, LEDS, etc.) relevant building capacity opportinuty

Recommendations

•Leadership and well-experienced coordinator is key to ease the mapping of relevant stakeholders and to ensure proper implementation of working group sessions (especiallyafter regional training workshop)

•TNA Coordinator should be a key actor within all related climate processes (NDE, GCF, GEF, NAMA, etc.) and have close relationship with policymakers (ease the buy-in of TNA’results): improve the planning of bilateral meeting with key authorities and donors during the in-country mission

• Improve actor engagement, in particular, national planning divsion, economist and bank manager to better assess financial needs and to ease the resource mobilisation

Implementing TNA’s output: learnt lessont from TNA I & TNA2

ENDA Energie

54, rue Carnot

Dakar SENEGAL

[email protected]

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Technology Needs Assessment (TNA)

Ugandan Perspective

Presented at a webinar on TNA activities in Africa

15 April 2020.

Dr. Maxwell Otim Onapa, Director Science, Research and Innovation,

Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Uganda.

TNA Coordinator

Some BackgroundUganda received support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to TNA. Implementation: UN Environment through UNEP-DTU Partnership, Denmark, and Coordination: National Designated Entity (NDE) for the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN).

Activities 1. Inception Workshop in August 2018. Adaptation - Prioritised Sectors: • Agriculture, • Forestry, and • Water

Mitigation - Prioritised Sectors: • Energy

2. Consultants Recruitment - Between March and June 2019,

3. Documentation of potential technologies for consideration if Uganda is to meet her mitigation and adaptation obligations. 4. Identification and prioritisation of technologies for selected sectors - first of the three (3) steps of the TNA process.

METHODOLOGY

The Technology Needs Assessments methodology is a mature process useful to developing countries as they work to develop and implement their NDCs

under the Paris Agreement.

The Technology Needs Assessments process is organized around three main activities:

a) Identifying and prioritizing mitigation and adaptation technologies for selected sectors;

b) Identifying and analysing the barriers that hinder the successful deployment and diffusion of the prioritized technologies, including its enabling framework;

c) Creating, based on the inputs obtained from the previous two steps, Technology Action Plans (TAPs), i.e., medium- or long-term plans to support implementation of the identified technologies. The Technology Action Plans outline activities that are further elaborated as project concept notes.

What we have done so farA workshop on Prioritization of technologies that were identified by the consultants held June 2019,

The objectives

To identify and prioritize mitigation and adaptation technologies, respectively, for

• Energy sector (Mitigation) and

• Agriculture, Forestry and Water (Adaptation) sectors.

The workshop sought to identify at least adaptation and mitigation technologies (12) for future diffusion, up scaling/dissemination

These are expected to support implementation of Uganda’s nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and related technology-dependent climate actions at national level.

The methodology for identifying climate technologies can be used to assess other local needs under separate processes and projects beyond the TNA, in for instance, assessing technology needs in the science, technology and innovation (STI) sector.

What we have done so far

Stakeholder participation

A total of 32 experts including:

representatives of government departments responsible for policy and regulation; vulnerable sectors (agriculture, forestry, water, and energy),

private sector,

farmer organizations,

technology providers and users,

development partners and

the media participated in the meeting.

Highlights of the workshop

Matters arising/observations

• Need to prioritise the technologies within a defined timeframe to make them relevant to national development needs.

• identification of climate technologies for this TNA process should also be within this context of NDPIII so that they are in tandem with national planning processes.

Key outcomes of the workshop

The Sector Working Groups for

• Energy (mitigation),

• Agriculture,

• Forestry and

• Water (adaptation)

considered the long and shortlists provided by the respective Consultants and recommended and prioritised

Key outcomes

2.2.1 Energy Sector (mitigation)

Agriculture (adaptation)

Forestry (adaptation)

Water (adaptation)

Forestry (adaptation)

Both the Mitigation and Adaptation consultancy have submitted their final reports

The process of analyzing how the prioritized technologies can be implemented in the country and how implementation circumstances could be improved by addressing the barriers and developing an enabling framework based, inter-alia, on undertaking of local market and other assessments;

Where we are in the TNAProcess

1. Updates on the TNA process

2. Brief updates on the BAEF progress by Consultants.

3. Discussions

4. Detailed analysis in breakout sessions

5. Way forward.

BAEF WorkshopOverall objective:• To analyse barriers, • identify measures to overcome barriers and • enabling frameworks for the selected technologies for climate mitigation and

adaptation as part of the TNA process for Uganda.

Day 1 Objective: Recap of the TNA process in Uganda and the key engagements in the subsequent phase - barriers analysis of prioritized technologies

Presentation of the barrier analyses for each of the prioritized technologies to advance adaptation in the Agriculture, Water and Forestry sectors methods for barrier identification, long list of barriers, categorization of barriers and

criteria for prioritization barriers in each category

BAEF Workshop

Presentation of the barrier analyses for each of the prioritized technologies to advance adaptation in the Energy sector– methods for barrier identification, long list of barriers, categorization of barriers and criteria for prioritization barriers in each category

Discussions and feedback from plenary -

Barriers analysis tools - problem tree/CBA/market-mapping etc.

Group work tasks based on themes to validate the barrier analysis drafts pre-done by consultants

• Agriculture

• Water

• Forestry

• Energy

Day 2 objective: Identification of measures and enabling frameworks of identified barriers for the prioritized technologies

Group work tasks based on themes to identify measures to overcome barriers –using solution trees and other tools; and to identify enabling frameworks required

Plenary to share what has been analysed for each technology

BAEF Workshop

Key barriers in each of these categories Econ and Financial – eg access to input, market

viability, cost, demand,. Give the top 3 Non-financial - Information awareness, human cap Support Infrastructure Technical complexity and operational abilities

needed Policy/legal Institutional – structures, incentives Social/cultural/behavioural/gender ??Biophysical? Mechanical?

BAEF Workshop

Thank You

More information about the TNA: www.tech-action.org/

The webinar has been recorded and will be available on the TNA website in the coming days.

If you have any question in relation to this project, feel free to contact Sara Trærup at [email protected]


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