Author: Rachel Allies

 In July 2024, the Ministry of National Coordination and Development of Indonesia, BAPPENAS, launched its Circular Economy Roadmap and National Action Plan for Development of the National Circular Economy in Indonesia. The Roadmap and the Action plan focusses on 5 sectors: food, plastic packaging, electronics, construction and textiles. The Roadmap sets out 3 strategies for promoting circularity in the textiles sector: 1. Develop infrastructure and strengthen the national textile economic ecosystem in particular with regards to post consumer textiles (reuse, repair, recycle and recover) 2. Reduction of textile waste (reuse, repair, recycle and recover) 3. Increase resource efficiency in the textile production process including through the promotion of eco-design (rethink, and reduce) UNEP in 2023 initiated the UNEP Textile Initiative to provide strategic leadership and encourage sector-wide collaboration to accelerate a just transition towards a sustainable and circular textile value chain. UNEP takes a life cycle approach, where the entire life cycle of a product or service is analysed and data is collected, in order to identify opportunities for improving environmental impacts and help make informed evidence-based decisions. Through this project UNEP in collaboration with and with funding from Denmark will implement InTex Indonesia in collaboration with local partners to support Indonesia’s efforts to enhance sustainability and circularity in the textiles sector in support of the implementation of the Circular Economy Roadmap and Action Plan. This may include scoping the possibilities of developing an ecodesign standard for the textile sector in Indonesia. The objective of the project is: To support sustainability and circularity in the Indonesian textile sector by both improving production resource efficiency and informing product design for circularity upstream. The project will support the Indonesian government in implementing the Circular Economy National Roadmap and Action Plan for the Textile Sector. Specifically, implementation of Strategy 3 on improved resource efficiency, by working with industry actors to assess and reduce the environmental impact of textiles production, and it will contribute to the implementation of Strategy 1 with a focus on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy development.

 6 May, 2025

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The UNEP Eco-innovation approach helps SMEs to develop a business model, shaped by a new business strategy, which incorporates sustainability throughout all business operations based on life cycle thinking and in cooperation with partners across the value chain. It entails a coordinated set of modifications or novel solutions to products (goods/services), processes, market approach and organizational structure which leads to a company’s enhanced performance and competitiveness. The UNEP eco-innovation textile supplement guides technical intermediaries (i.e. service providers that help SMEs in a consultancy role to apply eco-innovation) how to apply this approach in this specific sector, with the UNEP eco-innovation chemicals supplement providing further cross-sectoral guidance. The Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded project “Reducing uses and releases of chemicals of concern, including POPs, in the textiles sector” (hereinafter GEF 7), will pilot how eco-innovation can help textile SMEs in one country to better manage or phase out priority chemicals of concern (CoCs), including POPs, while creating incentives for them to adopt change. Brands or associations can act as entry points to identify SME suppliers in the project countries, to change business models through eco-innovation methodology (with a target to eliminate POPs). Focus will be on upstream interventions involving a whole value chain (i.e. multiple companies). Applying the eco-innovation methodology could have outcomes such as changing product design (e.g., for increased durability, better recyclability), business models (e.g., reuse, repair), and consumer engagement (e.g., through campaigns or eco-labels), all with a broad sustainability focus but including addressing POPs.

13 May, 2025

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 As the landscape of measurement data grows, and IMEO accelerates its work on data integration from diverse data streams (e.g., remote sensing data, industry reported data, inventories) in the data platform projects, in particular related to met coal, will focus on four key objectives: 1. Collect existing met coal methane emissions data and integrate them to create an actionable database to support steel sector’s decarbonization. 2. Compare existing datasets on metcoal methane emissions with measurement-based methods 3. Advance reconciliation and data integration approaches for multi-scale emissions data. 4. Create an inventory of met coal methane emissions geolocated sources, such as ventilation shafts and drainage stations as well as mine boundaries to support remote sensing measurements. This particular project proposal focuses on point 4 of the list above. In Phase 1 of the Steel Methane Programme database we are aiming to collect info on the above for selected mines that will account for >50% of the world’s metcoal production. The expected duration of this particular project is 10 months.

15 May, 2025

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The overall program is the Net-Zero Nature-Positive Accelerator Integrated Programme (NZNPA IP). The central objective of the NZNPA IP is to support countries in accelerating their efforts to achieve net-zero and nature-positive economies. This is to be achieved by catalyzing finance and partnerships, triggering investment, promoting policy and governance coherence, and curating, diffusing, and transferring experiences, good practices, and lessons learned. The NZNPA IP is aligned with the GEF-8 programming strategies and responds to the focal areas of climate change, biodiversity, and land degradation. The NZNPA IP includes a Global Platform and Country Child Projects. The Global Platform (GEF Project ID: 11098) is a global coordination project that acts as a central ‘enabler’ for the entire integrated program. Its main objective is to support the 12 participating countries in their transition to net-zero nature-positive economies by generating and transferring knowledge, building capacity, catalyzing finance, and fostering partnerships. The Global Platform focuses on helping global and national actors understand how to effectively integrate nature into net-zero planning and implementation actions. It will develop new global knowledge, building upon existing efforts, and ensure that experiences and lessons learned from the country projects are shared. This knowledge will be a global good accessible to all countries. The Global Platform is comprised of a collaborative and coordinated effort between UNEP, ADB, CAF, CPI, WCMC and UNEP FI and has a duration of six years to support the participating country projects. The incoming implementing partner will join the above list of agencies to coordinate and run the global platform. The Country Child Projects are national-level projects being implemented in 12 participating countries: Chile, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Indonesia, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Viet Nam. These projects are supported by the Global Platform, which will service, coordinate amongst, and create capacities and enabling conditions for them. The child projects are intended to concurrently implement their own national NZNPA strategies in priority sectors, thereby contributing to significant global environmental benefits such as greenhouse gas emission reductions, biodiversity conservation, and land restoration. The Global Platform will provide these countries with tools and knowledge for developing comprehensive nature-positive plans to achieve climate neutrality through ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs). Resources from the child projects’ GEF budgets are designated for participation in Global Platform activities.

 11 May, 2025

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FARM is a five-year, $341 million initiative, which seeks to reduce and manage the use of harmful pesticides and plastics in agricultural production and encourage the adoption of low- and non-chemical alternatives. In addition to the Global Child Project, FARM consists of seven child projects led by UNEP and implemented by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNIDO. The execution of the child projects is carried out in-country by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and relevant country institutions in Ecuador, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Uruguay and Viet Nam.

16 May, 2025

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 The BTR Top-Up Focus for countries completing a national communication and a BUR extend the greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory to cover additional years up to 2021 or 2022; expand reporting on mitigation actions to report NDC progress, expand existing adaptation reporting to address climate change adaptation as per Article 7 of the Paris Agreement, including reporting on loss and damage; and expand reporting on technology transfer and financial, technology, and capacity needs to address financial, technology, and capacity-building needs and support received as per Articles 9, 10, and 11 of the Paris Agreement. The MPGs, formulated to implement transparency in reporting under the Paris Agreement, defined specific new requirements for reporting the results of national GHG inventories. Information on national GHG inventory results should be included in a specific chapter of the BTR (Chapter I) and supporting information should be included in the annexes. In addition, all Parties must provide a NIR, which consists of a national inventory document (NID) and the common reporting tables (CRT), to the UNFCCC as part of each country´s BTR submission process. The objective is to develop the National Inventory Report (NIR) for inclusion in the first Biennial Transparency Report for Qatar which consists of a national inventory document (NID) and the common reporting tables (CRT) in addition to implementation of a 2-day capacity building workshop on NIR preparation over a period of 6 months.

 16 May, 2025

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 The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is implementing The Global Programme for Sustainable Mobility. The Programme supports a transition to low and zero emission sustainable mobility in low- and middle-income Countries (LMIC’s) through technical assistance, capacity building and advocacy to mitigate GHG emissions from the transport sector, improve air quality and promote equity and gender inclusion in the transport sector (and other co-benefits). One of the priorities of programme is to support countries, regions and sub-regions to develop and adopt policies, strategies, action plans or other measures to upscale active mobility investment (through the UNEP Share the Road Programme). This call for proposals serves to identify Africa based organizations to act as our implementing partners for activities in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Morocco as well as other countries in the region and internationally as part of the Pan African Action Plan for Active Mobility (PAAPAM) delivery framework. Organizations can respond to this call, indicating their capacity to implement the specific activities. Once reviewed, rostered Partners will be invited to complete specific EOI’s (Expression of Interest) matched to their expertise and the programme priorities.

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Submission deadline : 16 June, 2025

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