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Energy Efficiency Support Program for Ukraine – EE4U The potential for increasing energy efficiency in Ukrainian buildings has not yet been fully exploited. The Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Financing the Energy Efficiency Support Programme in Ukraine (EE4U), funded with 20 million euros by the federal government and managed by the International Finance Cooperation (IFC), supports the energy-efficient modernisation of Ukraine's housing stock. At the core of its activities, the Energy Efficiency Fund (EEF) provides grants to homeowners' associations to co-finance the implementation of energy efficiency measures in apartment buildings.
End-User Finance for Access to Clean Energy Technologies in South and South-East Asia (FACET) The project was implementing country schemes aimed at mobilising end-user financing for the purchase of clean energy technologies. The strategy was to first identify technology/market opportunities. Then consultation processes were undertaken for the best three to four approaches presented by partner institutions, in order to identify support schemes for initiating bank lending. Each scheme combined technical assistance with a temporary financial support mechanism, usually interest softening or partial guarantees that incentivise banks to set up initial loan portfolios of typically around 10,000 loans. The schemes were open to any technology supplier that could pass a qualification process involving training and submission of business plans to the local banks. At the same time, microfinance approaches aimed to strengthen the demand side.
Sustainable charcoal production and cooking stoves in central Liberia In Liberia, approximately 70 per cent of households do not have access to electricity and rely on fuelwood and charcoal for cooking. Particularly in rural areas, the widespread cooking practice with solid fuels causes severe implications for human health, forest degradation, and climate change. This IKI Small Grants project aimed to improve rural households' access to energy-efficient cookstoves and improved charcoal production technology to mitigate Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, reduce deforestation, and improve health and rural livelihoods in Bong County, Central Liberia. The project aimed to directly benefit 1,000 rural households and two charcoal associations. The targeted households were in three townships. Especially low-income households that were either headed by women or children have benefitted from the project.
Solar energy for wastewater management and irrigation in Jenin district Water shortage and the related lack of irrigation has been a long problem for many smallholder farmers in the Palestinian Territories. To combat the problem, the American Near East Refugee Aid jointly with Jenin Municipality implemented a project to reuse treated wastewater for irrigation produced from Jenin wastewater treatment plant in 2015. However, the high cost of wastewater treatment has forced the municipality to pause the treatment. The consequent deterioration of water quality as well as the farmers’ lack of experience in maintaining the irrigation system led to the shrinking of the irrigated area. This project installed a solar energy facility to the waste-water treatment plant. With its solar panels, it provided smallholder farmers with clean energy and access to sustainable irrigation techniques. Accompanying trainings for the farmers to repair and maintain the system were an integral part of the project design.
Pilot Auktion Facility for Methan and Climate Change Mitigation With the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation (PAF), the World Bank is launching an innovative fund. Based on the concept of result-based payments, which are based on the independent review and the approval process of the Framework Convention on Climate Change with public participation, cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions are to be ensured. The funds deposited will be used via an auction process that promotes competition among providers and thus avoids deadweight effects. The fund is aimed at CDM projects that are wholly or essentially dependent on the sale of international certificates (CER, certified emission reductions) and which, in view of insufficient market demand for certificates, cannot continue their emission reduction activities.
Reducing emissions in Chile by promoting the use of combined heat and power plants in industry and commerce Combined heat and power (CHP) plants are an efficient technology and have potential in Chile. However, their use has been rare until now. A completed pilot project has demonstrated a successful potential use case in public hospitals. To expand CHP technology into the industry, commerce and public facilities, specialised expertise, improved regulatory frameworks and skilled local experts, as well as an improved awareness among public and private investors is necessary. The current project was advising relevant contacts on approaches to build up expertise and resources while setting up a CHP Centre of Excellence and supporting implementation work. The ultimate aim was to reduce Chile’s greenhouse gas emissions footprint. Insights gained in the project will be shared with neighbouring countries.
INFORBIO - INtact and effectively managed FORests and BIOdiversity as natural barriers to mitigate climate change and risk of pathogen spillover The Congo Basin rainforests constitute one of the last real tropical carbon sinks. They are key biodiversity areas which support livelihoods, health and maintain the cultural identity of indigenous people and local communities (IPLCs). However, they are disappearing at alarming rates. This impacts their resilience, and their capacity to act as a natural barrier against the spillover of zoonotic diseases. Based on the One Health approach, the project will raise excellency in the management of existing Protected Areas, establish new community-led conservation avenues to increase forest areas and connectivity, foster forest-based effective economic modalities, and will set an early warning system and intervention response to minimise the risk of zoonotic outbreak. It will raise the interlink between “intact ecosystems, human wellbeing, animal health" at national and international agendas, and promote significant, long term policy commitments to restore and conserve this biome.
SCP Asia Phase II - sustainable consumption and production in Thailand and Cambodia In order to improve the environmental performance of agricultural products in partner countries, the project promotes sustainable forms of consumption and production. By bringing together different stakeholders along the value chain, it stimulates the production of more sustainable agri-food products. In model regions, the project develops nature-friendly cultivation practices and creates value chains to open up markets. In addition, the project increases the demand for nature-friendly, low-carbon products among consumers and empowers them to make informed purchasing decisions through sustainability information. For scalability, the project engages in local, national and global policy-making processes and supports governments in integrating sustainability consumption and production principles into coherent policies in line with climate, biodiversity and SDG targets.
Integrated Climate Change Management in Communal Reserves in the Amazon Rainforest The habitats of indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon region are threatened by the consequences of climate change and by the illegal clearing of forests for various purposes such as gold mining. The project strengthened the affected population’s resilience to the negative impacts of climate change in two communal reserves. One measure was the integration of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) strategies into the sustainable management of protected communal areas. Project activities such as aerial photography to identify threats and forest restoration helped to ensure that these valuable areas are preserved and provide support for the sustainable development of the indigenous communities, whose livelihoods depend on natural resources. The experience gained in this project was transferred to ten communal reserves in Peru.
Advancing and Measuring Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) for a Low-Carbon Economy in Middle-Income and Newly Industrialized Countries (Advance SCP) The sustainable consumption and production of products reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases. The project contributed to establishing sustainable consumption and production patterns in eight emerging countries in South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. Orientation is provided by the “Ten-Year-Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production” of the United Nations. To this end, the project supported the development and introduction of sustainability information systems (SIS), which form a foundation for informed consumer decisions. The emission of climate-damaging gases was thus reduced and resource efficiency along the value chains was improved. The individual project activities focused on strengthening institutions, providing technical training, facilitating the transfer of knowledge and developing integrative, political solutions. The project also sought possibilities for the development of NAMAs.
Promoting Green Deal Readiness in the Eastern Partnership Countries (ProGRess) The project supports the countries of the Eastern Partnership in their transition to climate-friendly economic development. It aims to improve the conditions for the transformation of EU trade-related agricultural and industrial value chains. The project promotes the introduction of innovative technologies, tools and methodologies that provide a significant impetus for a transition to greater sustainability, climate resilience and long-term greenhouse gas (mitigation in the region, accompanied by framework conditions that improve implementation and sectoral acceptance. Better access to financing options and support for the development of financing mechanisms and instruments involving for example national banks, development banks and public budgets will facilitate implementation. Good practices and expertise will be anchored in the institutional structures of the regional and national implementing partners.
Implementation and Financing of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) by the Food and Agriculture Sector to reduce climate risk and environmental impacts in Latin America Climate change and COVID-19 are disrupting Latin American agricultural systems as value chains have been upended, driving producers into unsustainable production. Through an improved enabling environment for EbA, the project will transform three million hectars of agricultural land into regenerative landscapes that benefit climate, biodiversity, productivity and producers. The project will increase knowledge of EbA agriculture and green recovery, including analyses of their barriers and successes, while also strengthening regulatory frameworks which promote EbA and eliminating disincentives. The project will develop 13 business models with climate and agricultural data and will implement at least 5 financial instruments/financial risk transfer solutions to enable EbA finance and investment. More than 7000 producers will adopt these approaches and a multi-stakeholder platform will facilitate public-private-community coordination and promote rapid scaling of adoption.
Climate Change Scenarios for the Congo Basin The project provided national and regional decision-makers in the COMIFAC (Central African Forests Commission) Member States with climate change scenarios that have been specifically calculated for the Congo Basin. It also analysed existing water resources and calculates water availability as well as flooding and drought risks to allow the development of natural resource management strategies that are adapted to climate change. It quantified the impact of climate change on forestry and on water resources for agriculture and the energy sector, and analysed the effects on the region’s economic and environmental development. This work helped the COMIFAC Member States to adopt a joint negotiating position based on better information that is both up-to-date and scientifically founded.
Managing invasive species in community forests for forest restoration and sustainable agriculture Invasive Alien Plant Species (IAPS) are growing burden in natural and managed ecosystems across scales and their threats to biodiversity are increasing with global environmental changes. Many of Nepal´s community forests are affected by IAPS being among the world's 100 worst invasive species (Mikania micrantha, Chromolaena odorata and others). IAPS are hindering biodiversity, compromising ecosystem services and affecting forest dependent people's access to forest resources. The Project combined natural regeneration of community forests with sustainable agriculture through biomass management of IAPS. The project adopted a participatory action research approach and worked with local communities. The project further worked to strengthen capacity of forest technicians for effective management of IAPS in forests through training and knowledge management.
Sustainable Energy Transition in Indonesia (SETI) The project will support Indonesia in decarbonizing carbon-intensive energy users through integrated renewable energy and energy efficiency applications in energy consumption hot spots. Through collaboration with partner institutions at national and regional levels, it will support an inclusive policy-making process for the development of regulatory frameworks and support mechanisms. A finance support facility and innovative business models will catalyse sustainable energy investment. The demonstration of innovative technologies and business cases will encourage private sectors to replicate successful renewable energy and energy efficiency approaches and help boost Indonesia's global competitiveness. Finally, learning networks anchored at local stakeholders and business associations will provide public knowledge, empower innovation, and facilitate the upscaling of promising user cases.
Cities Matter: Capacity building in sub-Saharan African megacities for transformational climate change mitigation Megacities in sub-Saharan Africa are severely affected by climate change and are submitting a large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. The project supported technical capacity building for long-term climate action plans. Comprehensive approaches were also being developed to promote low-emission urban development and mechanisms were identified to improve the national and local integration of mitigation measures. The project employed an administrative, climate protection city advisor in each of the participating cities to integrate internal and external interest groups, facilitate as knowledge transfer to other cities. Instruments for greenhouse gas balancing and the management of monitoring, reporting and verification measures (MRV) were developed together with the cities. As part of the Corona Response Package the project identified measures that create green jobs and contribute to low-carbon and resilient urban development These were then prioritised in the development of climate action plans.
Mami Wata – Enhancing Marine Management in West Africa through Training and Application The African Atlantic coast has a combined “Exclusive Economic Zone”, which has a number of hotspots for biodiversity and extensivefishing grounds. These are threatened by overfishing and pollution. Mami Wata provided technical and institutional training-of-trainers and peer-learning based capacity building for national planners and decision-makers dealing with marine and coastal management, in collaboration with regional Centres of Expertise, which will be strengthened and linked into a network to provide long-term knowledge hub functions. Mami Wata built institutional and technical capacity enhancing Abidjan Convention member countries’ abilities to manage their marine and coastal environments in an integrated, ecosystem-based way leading to the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of marine and coastal resources.  Mami Wata worked with national pilot projects in Benin, Côte D’Ivoire, Ghana, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegals, and support transboundary cooperation between Côte D’Ivoire and Ghana as well as Togo and Benin.
Support for Protected Areas in Amazonia (ARPA) Brazil was supported in this effort by, among others, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the German government within the context of the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) programme. The goal of the programme was to designate as conservation zone and to maintain over the long term areas covering 60 million ha in Amazonia. In this endeavour, ARPA promoted the designation of new areas, the establishment and management of sites, and cooperation with the local population by providing infrastructure and equipment as well as advice and training. Funding from the International Climate Initiative complemented ARPA. The project particularly focused on promoting extractive reserves, in which sustainable resource use by traditional population groups (e.g. rubber tappers and Brazil nut gatherers) was permitted.
Supporting PAGE countries on Green Economic Recovery from Covid-19 The UN initiative “Partnership for Action on Green Economy” (PAGE), founded in the context of the Rio + 20 conference in 2012, strives to enable the transformation of an economy that is not only internationally competitive but also sustainable. PAGE positions itself as an implementation vehicle for the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs and thus meets increasing demand in emerging and developing countries. Given the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in which governments are forced to put in place large stimulus packages to rescue their economies, it is important that the capital invested is channeled into sectors that enable a resilient green economy and do not create lock-in effects at the same time take into account the national climate targets. To support this, PAGE has launched activities that are specifically tailored to environmentally and climate-friendly crisis overcoming measures and economic stimulus packages (green recovery).
Creation of a comprehensive framework for NAMAs and MRV in Viet Nam The project supported Vietnam in enhancing the institutional and personnel capacities needed to successfully develop and implement nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs). This included the set up of coordinational structures for NAMAs within the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), the development of central elements for a measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) system and the development of two NAMAs. NAMAs are also supposed to generate important co-benefits such as improved urban infrastructure, increased competitiveness and environmental protection. Moreover, the project advised MONRE on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the review process of the Vietnamese NDC. In addition, the project supported the BMU with knowledge management and networking in Vietnam. The experience gained will be shared internationally through regional and global dialogue forums and peer-to-peer learning platforms.
Improving the Management of Peatlands and the Capacities of Stakeholders in Indonesia (Peat-IMPACTS Indonesia) Some 50 percent of Indonesia’s peatland areas have been converted and degraded by excessive land use and fire damage. A sustainable and climate-neutral solution to the management of peatlands is based on a transformational landscape approach that combines technical and organisational resources and skills in peatland restoration, while being aligned with the needs of the public and private sectors. The project is also raising awareness among key stakeholders about peat fires and the associated emission risks in relation to peatlands. Support is being provided for the integration of peatland management into a broader-based landscape management, and the project is also providing skills training for smallholders in the management of paludiculture. The project’s efforts are helping to safeguard local livelihoods, while communication of the lessons learned is ensuring that insights are shared nationwide. The mitigation of emissions achieved is helping to meet Indonesia’s NDCs and its national 2015–2020 development plan.
Support to the Climate Change Support Team of the UN Secretary General The Climate Change Support Team, hosted by the UN Secretary-General, is being supported in "resilience" activities in preparation for the climate summit in fall 2014. The goal is to raise awareness and mobilize key actors from business and in developing countries for climate-resilient planning and investment decisions. In the coming years, many investments will be made in regions that are exposed to increasing climate risks. These include, in particular, rapidly growing coastal cities in developing and emerging economies. Much of such investment will come from the private sector. In order to strengthen the adaptive capacity of the affected population, it is therefore important to take a joint, strategic approach to investment and planning processes. Therefore, the application aims at bringing together high-level decision makers.
Support project "Biodiversity financing and implementation of the strategic plan 2011-2020 of the CBD". Support project "Biodiversity financing and implementation of the strategic plan 2011-2020 of the CBD"
YouthEnergy - Activating youth potentials for driving the just energy transition in Argentina Systematic use of its outstanding renewable energy resources would enable Argentina to put its economy on a sustainable development path and achieve the Paris climate goals. Young people have a wide range of potentials that are crucial for shaping this future. The project empowers young people to drive a just energy transition. It focuses on students from technical schools and on youth organizations. Young people will be empowered to communicate and disseminate knowledge to address climate change, the energy transition, and related gender, class, and ethnic inequalities; become innovators and designers of future energy systems; and actively participate in energy policy at the local and international levels. Participating schools, organizations, and state authorities will be able to apply and disseminate the methods and tools developed.
SHIFT – Scaling-up clean Heating Investments to Facilitate energy Transformation The project aims to transform the heating sector in Monogolia by demonstrating the applicability of renewable energy technologies for district heating systems and supporting the adoption of a clean heating policy and investment plan. The project will support Mongolia to achieve its NDC commitment to reduce emissions from energy production by 32% by 2030.  The project will establish 4 solar district heating (SDH) plants (11 MW each) and mobilise EUR 15 m. of public and private funds. This is expected to lead to reduction of 2.3 Mt CO2e during the project lifetime and 10 years after the implementation.
Study on CCS Repositories Within the context of the EU-China Summit in December 2008, this project aimed to support cooperation on the issue of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). A focus was placed on assessing China’s geological capacity for storing carbon dioxide, and on preparing an implementation plan for a CCS demonstration plant by 2013. To this end, a European leadership group received support in undertaking research into developing a robust technical, financial and policy framework. As part of this work, consultations with CCS experts and stakeholders were held in China and the EU.