Welcome to UN CC:Learn

The One UN Training Service Platform for Climate Change is a collaboration of more than 20 UN agencies which seeks to foster knowledge sharing and strengthening of climate change learning and skills development in Member States, through a One UN approach. CC:Learn is developed in a step-by-step manner and includes three activity areas linked to each other: 1) Knowledge Management, 2) Development of a One UN Climate Change Training Package, and 3) Support of Country Driven Learning and Skills Development Strategies on Climate Change. Under the Knowledge Management activity area, a first version of an Inventory of UN Climate Change Learning and Training Materials is now available. 

Workshop in Albania Highlights the Role of Sub-national Authorities in Addressing Climate Change

From the 23rd to the 25th of June 2010, the first workshop in Europe under the global Territorial Approach to Climate Change (TACC) Initiative took place in Tirana, Albania. The event brought together 25 participants from regional authorities and from national government in Albania. It was supported by UNEP within the context of the TACC initiative, a collaboration of UNDP, UNEP, UNITAR and UNHABITAT. UNITAR supported the workshop through the development of training material and participation of a resource person.

COP-15 Copenhagen Side Event on Capacity Building Featured UN CC:Learn – The One UN Service Platform on Climate Change

Capacity development and systematically strengthening the skills of individuals is a prerequisite for achieving other important climate change objectives, for example in the area of climate change financing and adaptation. This message was one of the key conclusions of the One UN COP-15 Side Event on Climate Change Capacity Development, co-convened by UNDP, UNEP, UNITAR and the UNFCCC on 10 December 2009 in the margins of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.

UNFPA Releases Resource Kit "Climate Change Connections: Gender and Population"

How can population and gender aspects be integrated into policy analysis and decision-making related to climate change? The resource kit Climate Change Connections: Gender and Population - developed by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) - is designed to build capacity and provide tools and strategies for analysis and action on climate change.

UNDP Project "Capacity Development for Policy Makers to Address Climate Change"

In December 2007, governments agreed to step up their efforts to combat climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process with the ‘Bali Road Map’. Strengthening capacity of policy-makers to develop, implement and evaluate cross-sectoral national policy options in response to international negotiations, offers an opportunity to link national action to the international negotiation procsess while moving toward sustainability.