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SEED - UNDP Sustainable Energy and Environment Division


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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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With the creation in 1994 of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Division (SEED), UNDP has sought to mainstream sustainable energy, relating energy issues to UNDP's core development themes and working as one of the Global Environment Facility implementing agencies. Within the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), The Sustainable Energy and Environment Division (SEED) was created to enable UNDP to follow up UNCED more effectively. One of SEED's units,The Energy and Atmosphere Programme (EAP), promotes sustainable energy activities and provides technical assistance and support to programme countries in the design and implementation of energy-related activities that integrate protection of the environment and socio-economic development

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Technical assistance, Social development, Information dissemination, Demonstration projects,

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Worldwide

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NGOs, Private utility, Consultants, Industry, Government

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A review of UNDP energy country programming (UNDP, 1995b) showed that between 1974 and 1994 UNDP provided US$430 million for 980 energy projects, bringing in a further US$200 million in cost sharing. Around two-thirds of these projects concerned energy planning and conventional energy; while renewables and energy efficiency projects accounted for only 12%. UNISE activities include:
  • Nationally: Assisting Country Offices to include sustain-able energy concepts when formulating Country Co-operation Frameworks (CCFs), resulting in energy being included in around 40% of completed CCFs.
  • Regionally: Reorientating the Programme for Asian Co-operation on Energy and the Environment to reflect UNISE's aggressive pursuit of energy efficiency and more widespread use of new renewable energy sources.
  • The Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) has also supported a study on the commercialisation of renewable energy, and a programme on renewable energy technology in north-east Asia. The Latin American and Arab regional bureaus have also adopted UNISE principles in energy policies.
  • Under the EAP, technical assistance projects have included support for the Philippines and decentralised PV rural electrification in Syria. Pipeline projects include Energy and Women, Capacity building for Sustainable Energy, Modernised Biomass for China, and The World Energy Assessment. UNDP/EAP, with the support of the relevant country offices and financing from Norway, is carrying out small-scale climate change-related activities in four pilot countries, Peru, South Africa, the Philippines, and Bulgaria. This project aims to contribute to the advancement of the UNFCCC/Kyoto Protocol process, more particularly in the areas of the Clean Development Mechanism and Activities Implemented Jointly. The project builds capacity and assists in developing locally the knowledge necessary for attracting future climate change-related investments.

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Webpage: http://www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/
Contact: Prof. Thomas. B. Johansson
Email: tjohanss@...

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This profile, based on initial information contributed by Eco Ltd, was updated within the framework of the Sparknet project supported by the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme.

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