UNDP launches new website on climate change

Microfinance Focus, Aug. 18, 2009: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a new climate change web site, www.undpcc.org. The site is a knowledge database for information on key climate change issues, with a focus on analyses of international climate negotiations as well as the economic and policy implications of climate change, said a press release.
UNDP created the website to assist governments and other policy makers on climate change with features like periodic summaries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on adaptation, mitigation, technologies and financing. The site’s content is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian, with many key documents available in additional languages.
Its publications database contains over 600 documents on climate change in different languages, comprising books, bulletins, discussion papers, journal articles, official policy statements, policy briefs and working papers. The database is interactive and has an option where visitors can upload documents, ensuring its up-to date status.
It has periodic summaries of the UNFCCC negotiations leading to the 15th Conference of the Parties which will take place in Copenhagen in December 2009. The negotiations center around the four thematic building blocks of the Bali Action Plan: adaptation, mitigation, technology and financing. Users of the site can follow the latest news pertaining to negotiations and have access to a continuously updated calendar of climate change events.
Many project materials, including national issues papers on key sectors, reports from national inter-ministerial dialogues on climate change (14 held to date) and a UNDP user guidebook for assessing investment and financial flows — are available on the website. Public and private thematic and country groups where members can participate in discussions as well as post documents, questions or comments to obtain feedback from other group members. Users of the site can choose to receive emails with the latest news and updates to the site and groups by signing up for RSS blogs.

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