Climate Technologies and Technology Needs Assessments activities in Africa
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.
Technology Needs Assessment
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
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
Explore TNA reports and country priorities..
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
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.
Technology in Paris Agreement
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.
Technology in Paris Agreement
Key themes of the Technology Framework:
• Innovation
• Implementation (TNAs)
• Enabling environments and capacity building
• Collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Support
Technology in Paris Agreement
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.
Technology in Paris Agreement
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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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
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.
TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices
4th TNA synthesis report
• 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.
TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices
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.
TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices
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.
TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices
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.
TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices
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.
TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices
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.
TEC Policy Brief on TNA experiences, lessons learned and good practices
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
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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