UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, both recently accepted invitations to join the framework, with founding partners UNDP, UNEP, World Bank Group, African Development Bank, and UNFCCC. There are more than 1650 CDM projects to date in 55 countries.

A growing but still very small number of those projects are in Africa -- 30 projects, or 1.8% of all registered projects. Parties to the Kyoto Protocol have identified improvement of regional distribution as a priority concern for CDM. Launched by then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Kenya in December 2006, the Nairobi Framework partnership is a sign of the UN family's firm commitment to address the need for improved regional distribution of CDM project activities.

The new partners will allow for the scaling up and enhancement of existing activities under the framework, which have focused principally on raising the capacity of countries to take productive part in the CDM.

Background
The Nairobi Framework was initiated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Bank Group, African Development Bank, and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the specific target of helping developing countries, especially those in sub-Sahara Africa, to improve their level of participation in the CDM.

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