📋 Tender Overview
Project ID
230058
Thematic Priority
Safeguarding the Environment
LocationGlobal
Project ManagerMartin LUGMAYR
Donor
Regular Programme Of Technical Cooperation
Fund
Regular Programme of Technical Cooperati
Gender Marker1 (Limited expected contribution to GE)
Based on a request of the Small Island Sustainable Energy and Climate Resilience Organisation (SIDS DOCK) of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), UNIDO assists in the establishment of the Global Ocean Energy Alliance (GLOEA) for small island developing states (SIDS) and coastal least developed countries (LDCs). Following several technical meetings, the initiative was officially launched by UNIDO and SIDS DOCK during joint side events at COP26 in Glasgow and the UN Ocean Conference in 2022. The initiative is being supported by various Prime Ministers and Ministers from the Pacific, Caribbean and Africa. Recently, UNIDO was invited to submit an ocean energy policy paper for consideration by the 5th Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Meeting, scheduled to take place from 8 to 12 May 2023 in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The meeting will give UNIDO an official mandate for the implementation of the GLOEA in the Pacific. The GLOEA intends to build a bridge between applied research, the emerging ocean energy industry, which needs to test new solutions in various climates and contexts and SIDS and coastal LDCs, which have the interest to get access to technology and expertise. The industry platform will provide support in the areas of policy advisory, knowledge management, quality infrastructure and standards, qualification and training, as well as investment and business promotion. A major focus of the GLOEA will lie on the development and implementation of a pipeline of bankable ocean energy lighthouse projects in the Pacific, Caribbean Indian Ocean and Africa. Due to their large exclusive economic zones (EEZ), LDCs and coastal SIDS can become early-adopters of the advancing technologies and drivers for the market-uptake and technology cost reductions
