Timor-Leste completed its TNA process in 2024 as part of the TNA IV project. It has identified technology priorities in agriculture, energy, and education, with a focus on climate resilience and supporting the country’s youth. Over the past years, the country assessed barriers and identified measures for priority technologies.
Timor-Leste is an island country in Southeast Asia consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the islands of Atauro and Jaco, and the exclave of Oecusse. It neighbours Indonesia and Australia.
Indeed, the island faces a high risk of earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones and heavy rainfall, aggravated by its limited infrastructure and inadequate social safety-net programs. Timor-Leste is experiencing an increase in temperatures, extreme rainfall events and sea levels. Such climate change-related hazards threaten to exacerbate the risks of flooding, storms and landslides, negatively impacting the country’s food security. It is crucial for Timor Leste to build resilience against such hazards, since more than 70% of the country’s population relies on climate-sensitive and rain-fed agriculture as its main source of income.
As a result, and as highlighted in its NDC, the country needs to build resilience in the following sectors: agriculture and livestock to ensure its food security; water resources; human health; biodiversity; and ecosystems adapted to natural disasters.
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