Training Courses

Training courses are organised in collaboration with relevant international organisations, with a focus on the special requirements and circumstances of the target countries/regions.  Specific activities include:

• Capacity building for technology needs assessment, project planning and assessment, and establishment of institutional settings; 
• Information dissemination about environmentally sound technologies and best practices appropriate to the region and circumstances of the target country; 
• Identification of financing needs and alternative means of project financing; 
• Exchange of experiences in the use of successful environmental and energy policy instruments (e.g. law, taxes, subsidies etc.) 
• Professional education and training; 
• Initiation and strengthening of networking between agencies/centres for energy saving, energy efficiency and renewable energy; and, 
• Facilitating interaction between governments, agencies, and relevant international and other organisations.
  

Examples of activities are shown below.

• JI/CDM Project Presentation and Investors' Forum in Leipzig, Germany, October 2007    
• The 10th CTI Workshop on Energy Efficiency for Asian Countries, Japan, September 2007    
• Climate Technology and Energy Efficiency - the Engine for Economic Growth and Innovation, Germany, October 2006       
• The 9th CTI Workshop on Energy Efficiency for Asian Countries, Japan, July - August 2006       
• CTI Capacity-building Seminar "Climate Technology and Energy Efficiency - Sustainable Pathways to Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Management", Germany, October 2005               
• The 8th CTI Workshop on Energy Efficiency for Asian Countries, Japan, September 2005               
• CTI Capacity Building Seminar for CEE/CIS Countries: Climate Technology and Energy Efficiency - Using the Kyoto Mechanisms, Germany, October 2004           
• Workshop on "Clean Development Mechanism -CDM- and its Possible Contribution to Sustainable Energy Policy" Mexico, February 2004          
• The 7th CTI Workshop on Energy Efficiency and Cleaner Production for Asian Countries, Japan, October 2004         
• CTI Tanzania Cogeneration Workshop, Tanzania, November 2003        
• The 6th CTI Workshop for Asia on Energy Efficiency, Japan, November 2003

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