New UNDP Web Site offers wealth of climate information

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 06:57

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. Key features of the web site include:

• Project materials including national issues papers on key sectors, reports from national inter-ministerial dialogues on climate change and a UNDP user guidebook for assessing investment and financial flows.
• 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
• A publications database which contains over 600 documents on climate change in different languages
• Summaries of the UNFCCC negotiations leading to the 15th Conference of the Parties which will take place in Copenhagen in December 2009.