CTN status and potential members
Last updated: 4/03/2014
Advisory Board to the CTCN
19-21 March 2014
Third meeting
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Summary on progress
04/02/14
Procedures and associated documents finalized and uploaded to CTCN website
Set of documents for network and network membership application finalized:
 Information Note on the Climate Technology Network (CTN), Version 1.0
 The Climate Technology Network (CTN) Code of Conduct
 The Climate Technology Network (CTN) membership application form, Version 1.0
 Guideline for applying for membership, Version 1.0
Communication Frequently asked questions specific to the network and membership application finalized
On going
Initiating Network Development
1. Potential members:
 Potential members identified in the proposal submitted to the UNFCCC (see below table 1)
 Other organizations have expressed interest in becoming members (e.g. see below table 2)
2. Communication with potential members:
 Notification letter to be sent to potential members to:
o inform them of the network status (open for application)
o provide information on application procedures.
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Next steps
Information updated regularly on the website.
Granting membership
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Receipt of applications (rolling basis)
As of 4 March 2014, the below five organisations have submitted their applications (currently being processed):
 BATC Development, Malaysia
 Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
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Deputy of Natural Resources Development Technology, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology
(TPSA-BPPT), Indonesia
 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), Austria
 REN 21, France
Assessment of applications (6 weeks from the receipt of application/ rolling basis)
Granting membership
Recording/ tracking network members and their activities under the CTN
Further promoting application of prospective members
Public announcement, further search for prospective members, etc.
Contribution to knowledge management system of CTN
1. List of potential members identified in the proposal submitted to the UNFCCC
Latin America and the Caribbean
Country of
registration
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Name of organization
Type of organisation
Thematic expertise/service offered
Scope of activity
Instituto Tecnologico de
Costa Rica
The University of the West
Indies
Research and academic
institution
Academic institution
Climate adaption and mitigation
Name of organization
Bangladesh Centre for
Advanced Studies (BCAS)
SAARC Meteorological
Research Centre (SMRC)
South-South Global Assets
and Technology Exchange
Type of organisation
Research and academic
institution
Research and academic
institution
Thematic expertise/service offered
Adaption/mitigation
Scope of activity
Regional
Adaptation: knowledge management;
capacity building
Regional
University of the South
Research and academic
Adaptation
Regional
Asia-Pacific
Country
Bangladesh
China
Fiji Islands
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Pacific
India
Indonesia
Iran
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Technology Information
Forecasting and
Assessment Council
Agency for the
Assessment and
Application of Technology
Research Institute of
Petroleum Industry
SAARC Energy Centre
International Water
Management Institute
institution
Research and academic
institution
Research and academic
institution
Research and academic
institution
National
Mitigation: knowledge management;
capacity building
Adaptation: knowledge management;
capacity building
Regional
Type of organisation
Regional organisation
Thematic expertise/service offered
Scope of activity
Thematic expertise/service offered
Scope of activity
Regional
Africa
Country
Senegal
Name of organization
African Regional Centre
for Science and
Technology (ARCT)
Europe
Country
Name of organization
Type of organisation
Germany
International Clean Energy
Partnership Association
ICEPS e.V
Det Norske Veritas AS
UNEP FI
Partnership
CDKN – Climate and
Development Knowledge
Partnership
Norway
Switzerland
UK
Private sector
Partnership
Adaptation/mitigation:
investment/finance
Adaptation: knowledge management;
policy and planning
3
Global
Global
Global
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REEEP – Renewable
Energy and Energy
Efficiency partnership
Partnership
Mitigation
Global
Name of organization
Type of organisation
Thematic expertise/service offered
Scope of activity
Consultative Group on
International Agricultural
Research (CGIAR) (ICRAF)
International Renewable
Energy Agency (IRENA)
Climate Technology
Initiative, Private
Financing Advisory
Network (CTI PFAN)
World Business Council on
Sustainable Development
(WBCSD)
World Intellectual
Property Organisation
(WIPO)
Partnership
Adaptation
Global
Intergovernmental
organization
Partnership
Mitigation
Global
Adaptation and mitigation
Global
Global
Partnership
Global
Intergovernmental
organization
Global
2. List of organisations having expressed interest in becoming a member of the CTN
Latin America and the Caribbean
Country
Name of
organization
Type of
organisation
Colombia
Universidad
Antonio Narino
Research and
academic
4
Thematic
expertise/service
offered
Scope of activity
National
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Asia-Pacific
Country
Name of
organization
Type of
organisation
Australia
Australian
National
University
Dynamic digital
data design for
decent
development
Global CCS
Institute
Academic and
research
institution
Private sector
Research Institute
of Petroleum
Industry, Islamic
Republic of Iran
Petroleum
Ministry
Ministry of
Foreign Affairs,
Israel’s Agency for
International
Development
Cooperation
Israel Volcani
Research and
academic
institution
Iran
Israel
Not for Profit
Organisation
Public sector
organization
Research and
5
Thematic
expertise/service
offered
Mitigation: policy and
planning
Scope of activity
Global
Carbon Capture and
Storage (CCS):
knowledge
management
Global
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Institute of
Agricultural
Research
The Knowledge
Centre for
Climate Change
Adaptation
DevTech
academic
institution
Country
South Africa
Research and
academic
institution
Adaptation:
knowledge
management
Private sector
Adaptation and
mitigation: technology
development/transfer;
innovation
Name of
organization
Type of
organisation
Scope of activity
C4Ecosolutions
Private sector
Thematic
expertise/service
offered
Adaption and
mitigation: policy and
planning
Country
Name of
organization
Type of
organisation
Scope of activity
UK
International
Institute for
Environment and
Development
Stockholm
Environment
Research and
academic
institution
Thematic
expertise/service
offered
Adaption and
mitigation: policy and
planning
Israel
Africa
Global
Europe and North
America
Sweden
Research and
academic
6
Policy and planning
Global
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Italy
Canada
USA
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Institute
European
Hydrogen
Association
Centro di
Competenza per
l’Innovazione in
Campo AgroAmbientale,
Universita degli
Studi di Torino
Okapi
Environmental
Consulting
University of
Texas, Austin,
Bureau of
Economic
Geology (Gulf
Coast Carbon
Centre)
U.S. Council for
International
Business
College of the
Atlantic
institution
Partnership
Mitigation
Regional
Research and
academic
institution
Mitigation and
adaption: technology
development/transfer;
innovation; knowledge
management; capacity
building
Global
Private sector
Adaptation: capacity
building; policy and
planning
CCS
Global
Research and
academic
institution
Nongovernmental
organisation
Research and
academic
institution
Gail Karlsson
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National