Start Date : 1 Jun 09   End Date : 12 Jun 09 Location: Bonn, Germany

UN agencies collaborate on Climate Change Capacity Building. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had announced this effort at the Climate Meeting in Poznan in December 2008. Since then some progress has been made in developing the One UN Training Service Platform for Climate Change (TSP4CC). UN-HABITAT participated in a coordinating meeting organized in parallel to the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Talks* . UN HABITAT currently develops a number of capacity building publications which will be featured on the web based platform. The training material under development includes: A tool for local government policy makers to respond to Climate Change, guidelines for local governments on how to access carbon funding, a tool in support of the development of local climate change plans, a tool for urban planners and a number of technical tools on energy efficient building materials for low cost housing.

*The thirtieth sessions of the UNFCCC Convention subsidiary bodies - SBSTA and SBI, the sixth session of the AWG-LCA and the eighth session of the AWG-KP took place from Monday 1 June till Friday 12 June 2009 in Bonn, Germany