Support for implementing the climate targets in Algeria

Context

Algeria has signed the Paris Climate Agreement and has already taken substantial steps towards its implementation. However, the development of a National Climate Contribution (NDC), for example, is still pending and further improving the necessary strategic, institutional, legal and financial basis for implementing the agreement would further enable Algeria to fulfil its commitments under the Paris Agreement.

The previous project “Strengthening climate governance within the framework of intended Nationally Determined Contribution (iNDC)” has already contributed to improving the baseline conditions, while successor, the ClimGov2 project, will serve to build on existing successes and scale-up the pleasing results.

Objective

Algeria is better able to implement the Paris Agreement.

Approach

The project cooperates with the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Environment.

It expands the knowledge and skills of experts and managers at relevant institutions through advisory services, training and studies.

Its efforts focus on four topics:

1. Climate governance
   - The project creates initial drafts of legal texts for climate legislation, such as an implementation agreement for the climate framework law.
2. Adaptation
   - It develops guidelines for planning gender-sensitive adaptation measures and adaptation plans – based on experiences related to forestry.
   - It introduces processes that monitor and assess the adaptation measures. These processes are intended to benefit the Directorate General for Forestry, the Ministry of Agriculture and other institutions.
3. Mitigation
   - The project develops a method with process steps and responsibilities to define the National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC) and establish an interministerial working group on the topic.
   - It builds a pool of trainers to disseminate mitigation-relevant skills, such as modelling and scenario development.
4. Climate financing
   - The project also conducts feasibility studies on possible national climate financing mechanisms and on utilising international sources of financing.

Last update: July 2023