📅 19 May 2025
Nairobi, Kenya
The transition to clean energy and sustainable and inclusive industrial development is one of today’s most pressing global challenges. Achieving climate targets by 2050 requires transformative shifts across sectors, such as electricity, industry, transport, and buildings, with 35% of the necessary emissions reductions needing to come from technologies still at the demonstration stage (IEA, 2023). This underscores the critical need to accelerate the commercialization of innovative climate solutions.
The A2D Facility Annual Event offers a unique platform for stakeholders across the world to collaborate, partner, share knowledge, and highlight successes in implementing demonstration projects in developing countries. By fostering connections among project developers, financiers, industry association,s and other key actors, the event aims to accelerate the development and implementation of projects.
The A2D Facility Annual Event 2025 aims to build an internationally recognized community of key stakeholders for planning, implementing, operating, and scaling demonstration projects in developing countries, and facilitate knowledge-sharing, sharing of lessons learned, and opportunities for stakeholders to network and collaborate.
The A2D Facility Annual Event 2025 offers a unique opportunity to:
- Engage with project developers, adopters, financiers, and industry associations, among others.
- Gain insights into the latest developments in critical minerals, clean hydrogen, smart energy, and industrial decarbonization.
- Participate in thematic and impact-driven sessions on overcoming barriers to implementation.
- Discuss financing mechanisms for demonstration projects in developing countries and share lessons learned.
- Identify good practices related to gender equality, inclusion, and social and environmental safeguards in project implementation.
- Exchange knowledge on monitoring and evaluation guidelines in climate innovation projects.
- Gain a deeper understanding of UNIDO’s initiatives in developing countries.
Key themes and discussion points
The A2D Facility Annual Event 2025 will address some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in planning, implementing, and scaling innovative clean energy demonstration projects in the thematic areas of focus for the A2D Facility. The following guiding questions will steer the event’s discussions, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions:
- How can the implementation of demonstration projects in developing countries be accelerated?
- What are the main challenges, and how can they be overcome, particularly in critical minerals, clean hydrogen, smart energy, and industrial decarbonization projects? What examples of successful projects exist?
- What is needed to facilitate scalability and replicability?
- How can gender equality, inclusion, and safeguards be embedded in the implementation and operation of demonstration projects in developing countries?
- How can private finance be unlocked for demonstration projects in developing countries?
- What is the role of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), UN agencies, and international organizations in facilitating the implementation of innovative demonstration projects in developing countries?
