Capacity Building to enhance Climate Resilient Pathways to Sustainable Development (1065 kB)
Ms. Koko Warner
Lead Author for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report

Technology Executive Committee  (TEC)
Recommending actions to create and enhance enabling environments for the development and transfer of climate technology
(641 kB) Mr. Kunihiko Shimada
TEC Vice-Chair

Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
CTCN and Capacity Building (172 kB)
Mr. Fred Onduri
Chair of the CTCN Advisory Board

Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (CGE)
Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Reporting (1164 kB)
Ms. Hillary Hove
Member of the CGE

Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Examples of GEF projects to enhance and/or create an enabling environment (633 kB)
Mr. Rawleston Moore
Senior Climate Change Specialist
GEF Secretariat

Frankfurt School – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Collaborating Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance
Improving the sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Ethiopia and Nepal through climate finance (5328 kB)
Ms. Christine Grüning
Senior Project Manager, Policy Expert

15.00–15.40

Climate Action Network International (CAN)
Capacity as the front end of the mitigation pipeline (340 kB)
Mr. Pat Finnegan
Co-ordinator
CAN-International Working Group on Capacity Building

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Building capacity to mitigate: Examples and lessons learned from IRENA (807 kB)
Ms. Elizabeth Press
Deputy Director Innovation and Technology Centre

International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV (1186 kB)
Mr. Brian Mantlana (South Africa)
Mr. Sebastian Wienges (Germany)

Grantham Research Institute for the Environment and Climate Change
Mobilizing private-sector engagement in the LEDs and NAMAs: Lessons learned from the UNDP Low Emission Capacity Building Programme (689 kB)
Ms. Alina Averchenkova
Co-Head Policy

15.50–16.20

Clean development mechanism Executive Board (CDM EB)
Promoting CDM capacity-building in a time of carbon market crisis: the efforts of the CDM Executive Board (218 kB)
Mr. Hugh Sealy
Chair of the CDM EB Board


UNEP Risoe - The Nairobi Framework
Challenges of and solutions to regional distribution of CDM projects (2061 kB)
Ms. Miriam Hinostroza
Head, Low Carbon Development Programme


Building capacity to develop CDM projects in the Caribbean. The experience of the Dominican Republic (305 kB)
Mr. Federico Grullón (Dominican Republic)

15.00–15.30

Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)
Present and future training approaches of the LEG to build individual and institutional capacities in LDCs (419 kB)
Mr. Batu Uprety
Chair of the LEG


Capacity Building for Green growth and Climate Resilience in Rwanda (4050 kB)
Mr. Faustin Munyazikwiye (Rwanda)

Adaptation Committee (AC)
Technical support and guidance from the Adaptation Committee to promote the implementation of enhanced action on adaptation (506 kB)
Ms. Sumaya Zakieldeen
Member of the AC

Integrating Gender into Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Least Developed Countries. The Experience of Liberia (990 kB)
Ms. Siane Abdul Baki (Liberia)

15.45–16.15

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
FINPAC - Finnish Pacific Project. Reduced Vulnerability of the Pacific Island Country Villagers' Livelihoods to the Effects of Climate Change (896 kB)
Ms. Diane McFadzien, Mr. Espen Ronneberg, SPREP

FINPAC Project, the Cook Islands Experience (1012 kB)
Ms. Lavina Tama (Cook Islands)

Adaptation Fund Board (AFB)
The Adaptation Fund’s Readiness Programme for Climate Finance. Enhancing developing countries' capacity in accessing finance through national implementing entities (576 kB)
Mr. Daouda Ndiaye
AFB Secretariat