Promoting climate-friendly and emission-neutral development
Context
Climate protection and climate change adaptation are two of the biggest challenges of our time and are therefore priorities for the German Government and key objectives of German development policy. In 2015, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed in Paris to limit global warming to significantly less than two degrees and, if possible, to 1.5 degrees. To achieve this, and to cope with the impacts of climate change, countries across the globe will have to reduce greenhouse gases and align global financial flows to climate-neutral and climate-adapted development. At the same time, they will have to adapt to climate change and deal with losses and damage.
Objective
To achieve the 1.5 degree target of the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN’s targets for sustainable development, partner countries are successfully implementing social, ecological, and economic change.
Approach
This project provide support to the climate divisions within the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with the introduction of development-policy considerations into national and international climate policy and the implementation of their climate-policy tasks.
It advises the Ministry on climate protection, climate adaptation, dealing with losses and damage, climate financing, shaping bilateral and multilateral partnerships, and integrating climate issues into all areas.
In addition to this, the project represents and supports BMZ at climate conferences and on associated committees and initiatives.
It also advises BMZ on how to present its climate-policy commitment to the outside world and develop knowledge products. The focus here is on (inter)national professional groups.
The project works with the Swiss consultants EBP.
Last update: June 2023