News - Capacity Building

Aether are presenting a webinar on 1st November hosted by UNDP and the Global Support Programme (GSP). The webinar will cover support available to develop sustainable long-term Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems for gathering, managing and reporting climate action data.

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Workshop in Montenegro

13 February 2018

Justin Goodwin and Emma Salisbury travelled to Montenegro to hold a MRV workshop

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Malta Training

7 December 2016

Kristina Darmanin of Environment & Resources Authority in Malta visited us in Oxford for a two day intensive training session on emissions projections and emission mapping for air quality pollutants.

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Justin Goodwin and Richard Claxton have visited South Africa as part of a project to develop a National Greenhouse Gas Inventory System for the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA).

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Justin Goodwin lead the second in a series of National Systems for GHG estimation and reporting workshops for the Balkan countries, Turkey and Croatia on 8 - 9th March in Tirana.

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Aether is the lead consultant for the development of the North East Scotland Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) encompassing the local authorities (LAs) of Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus and Moray.

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Aether ran a workshop during the Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) annual conference on compiling and using SEAPs and heat maps. The workshop was attended by members of Scotland’s public bodies and was run to build capacity for planning and monitoring energy and low carbon actions.

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In 2015, Member States will need to report Greenhouse Gas emissions which follow the “new” IPCC Guidelines (2006). Chris Dore and Justin Goodwin chaired a workshop at the European Commission to support national representatives in updating their emissions inventories.

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The Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) has been very successful in raising awareness of and encouraging reporting on area-wide emissions by Scottish public sector officers.

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Chris Dore and Richard Claxton provided hands-on training and presentations during a two day workshop in Tashkent (Uzbekistan).

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Barbados workshop

31 January 2013

Justin, Chris and Melanie recently returned from Barbados where they gave a 2 day capacity building and technical training workshop on greenhouse gas inventories. This followed on from Aether compiling the 2010 GHG emissions inventory for Barbados, which will form part of their Second National Communication Report.

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Aether is working with Engain on a project to produce Barbados’ Second National Communications Report.

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Testimonial

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“ The support provided by Aether for this project was especially remarkable considering the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tools and methods used in order to engage local stakeholders really added value to the capacity building of the national team. ”

Shanna Emmanuel, Saint Lucia BUR Project Coordinator

“ Both the face-to-face training and the online version have been of high quality, with dynamic methods and a practical orientation that have allowed students to reach a solid knowledge base. The products have been delivered within the stipulated deadlines with an excellent quality and the team has always shown willingness to make adjustments according to the requirements of CONAF. We are very satisfied with the work. ”

Javier Cano Martín, Professional Unit for Climate Change and Environmental Services, CONAF (National Forestry Corporation), Chile

“ Engaging Aether to support us to develop the first GHG Inventory System and first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the United Republic of Tanzania has been a rewarding experience due to their high level of professionalism, creativity, timeliness and value for money. We will definitely consider Aether in our future initiatives. ”

Abbas Kitogo, Programme Specialist Energy and Climate Change, UNDP Tanzania

“ Saint Lucia embraces the professional approach with which this project was undertaken by Aether, particularly their ability to develop mentorship relations with local government experts. This provides a basis for ensuring that the pool of local experts remain engaged and recognized over successive processes. ”

Annette Rattigan-Leo, Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer

“ If we have a need for any more reports in the future Aether will be first on my list. ”

Alan Hardy, Kyson Design

“ Aether is a great partner for work in the area of European Air Emissions. The team was committed, reliable, well organised and had a deep technical understanding and motivated other partners with their good spirit. ”

Umweltbundesamt: Environment Agency Austria

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