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Equitable access to climate-related information and adaptation tools for women farmers In rural Kenya, the agricultural sector employs up to 70 per cent of the population. These regions are very vulnerable to climate change. However, few farmers have access to the online and digital resources needed to mitigate the climate challenges. This IKI Small Grants project addresses this challenge by leveraging local, proven, and easy-to-use SMS and other mobile phone-based techniques to deliver climate information and adaptation resources for women farmers. This considers the digital gender divide. Women of the area hardly use smartphones, but mobile phones are widespread. The mobile-based information includes real-time weather forecasts, seasonal climate hazard forecasts, agricultural adaptation strategies, climate risk assessment tools, and climate finance opportunities. It also provides up-to-date trade and market information. The project enhances accessibility of information to farmers in a simplified and multilingual format that is free to access for maximum social impact.
Advancing The Micronesia Challenge through new protected areas The project supported efforts to implement the “Micronesia Challenge” by designating protected areas. Island states such as the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia face particularly dire threats from the impacts of climate change. In 2006, the presidents of these three nations signed the ‘Micronesia Challenge’ with the goal of conserving 30% of near-shore coastal waters and 20% of their land area by the year 2020. For this purpose project partners identified target areas for conservation measures, implemented these measures and committed to sustainable, socio-economic development in the region.
Organisation of Municipal Climate Initiatives in Croatia The project was supporting selected Croatian towns and cities in developing local climate protection programmes. One of the key aspects was securing the necessary financing for such programmes using both local resources and funding programmes. In collaboration with the Croatian environment ministry and the city community Udruga Gradova, the project promoted the development and dissemination of examples of best practice in local climate protection.
Documentary Film: Energy Efficiency in Buildings in the MEDA Region This project aimed to promote energy efficiency in buildings in the region through the provision of educational materials. To this end, a documentary film about ten successful pilot projects was produced in English, French and Arabic. The film demonstrates not only the economic advantages for homeowners and the building sector, but also the benefits to the economy overall. In addition, country-specific aspects are illustrated by means of practical examples. The film is accompanied by a brochure. This project is linked with the EU-funded MED-ENEC programme.
Sustainable Energies, Entrepreneurship and Development in rural Kashmir (SEED Himalaya) The livelihood of the rural population in Jammu and Kashmir is particularly threatened by climate change due to the negative impact of varied rainfall patterns and more frequent extreme weather events on local agriculture in combination with unreliable energy supply. This leads to economic stress, poverty, and limited employment opportunities, in particular for the youth. SEED Himalaya aims to support the remote Himalayan community of Jabri in its transformation into an environmentally resilient and economically empowered community. This is to be achieved through community-based, decentralized energy supply as well as local value creation in agriculture. The inclusive bottom-up development plan, covering both green infrastructure as well as socio-economic structures, is tailored to the local resources, capacities, and needs. This ensures the sustainability of the project and enables the replication of its approach in other Himalayan communities.
Land-Use Planning and Sustainable Biomass Production for Climate Protection In conformance with the EU Renewable Energy Sources Directive on sustainable production of liquid biomass and biofuels, the purpose of the project was to mitigate the negative consequences of uncontrolled land-use change (greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, negative climate impacts and land-use conflicts) for the purpose of biomass cultivation in Indonesia, Colombia and Brazil. The affected regions were mapped and methods developed for the identification of carbon-rich areas. The project goal was to provide support to decision-making processes in connection with the creation of new and the expansion of existing plantations, in the interests of climate protection and nature conservation. In addition, policy advisory services on land use (LUC/ILUC) were provided and the results were made available to decision-makers in the partner countries as well as at European level.
Support to the Climate Change Support Team of the UN Secretary General In 2015, Heads of State and Government committed to the principles of the Agenda for Sustainable Development and realizing its goals by 2030. They also adopted a new climate change agreement in Paris in December that will contribute to the achievement of these goals. It is within this context, that the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, located within the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, requests financial support that enables the UN Secretary-General to maintain and expand his global leadership on climate change in four key areas:  1) High-level political mobilization including follow-up to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference; 2) Scaled-up climate action;  3) South-South cooperation on climate change; and 4) UN system wide coherence and coordination in support of implementation of the PA and the 2030 Agenda.
Transformational project pipelines for NDC Implementation To date, many countries have lacked a clear pathway to financing and implementing their NDCs. To rectify this situation, the project is building capacity in partner countries to ensure they have the resources and skills needed to develop innovation initiatives that will combine NDC implementation with public- and private-sector financing. Cooperation partners include finance and environment ministries, national development banks and national funds. The overall aim is to enable government partners to obtain climate financing from public funding bodies—and the Green Climate Fund in particular, with individual measures being tailored to national needs. Work being completed by the project includes country-specific analyses of options for accessing multilateral climate funds, the development of online tools for linking project developers to sources of financing and support for the establishment of institutional structures for NDC funding.
Initiative Resource Efficiency and Climate Action (IREK) II The G20 emerging economies are characterized by strong industrial growth. This is associated with increasing resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The project therefore initiated the implementation of integrated strategies and programs to promote resource efficiency, circular economy, and climate protection in industrial sectors in the priority countries Argentina, Indonesia and Mexico. To this end, it strengthened the necessary skills of decision-makers in the public sector and supported the implementation of measures to promote resource efficiency and circular economy for national industrial companies. It also helped to sensitize partner countries to improved data management and to use methodological approaches to quantify the contribution of resource efficiency to climate protection. In addition, the project supported international dialog and cooperation processes for resource efficiency and climate protection, especially in the G20 context, in close cooperation with the BMUV.
Linking eco villages and community water management in Langtang Region Nepal is lacking financial resources for wildlife conservation and addressing the needs of marginal communities residing in the edges of forests. As a result, wildlife depredates crops and decimate livestock. In return, the highland communities often hunt wild to safeguard their valuable assets. The proposed initiative ensures the co-existence of humans and wildlife by reducing the human-wildlife conflict. Under the broad vision of wildlife conservation through community participation, the IKI Small Grants project aims to construct water holes for wildlife and livestock, construct predator-proof enclosures, plant wildlife-deterrent, high-value crops along forest edges, and promote ecotourism in the village.
Capacity Building for REDD+ Funds Tracking The project set up a new international online network for tracking financing for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) with at least 15 countries. This is necessary because money flows must be measureable and traceable in order to create a more favourable environment for further REDD+ investments. The network made objective, neutral and reliable information available, and analyses whether REDD+ financing is used effectively. To accomplish this, project partners built an online database to store easily accessible information on REDD+ spending. An annual report summarises the state of REDD+ financing. The new network enables the various stakeholders to use this information for their strategic planning and coordination. These actors can also benefit from related workshops at national level. In this way, the network helps build capacities in the different organisations.
Financing and Integrating Renewable Energy for the City of Butuan The Philippine government is seeking to increase the proportion of renewable energies and use them to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The project supports these goals by further developing the financing and integration of renewable energies in the city of Butuan. Various urban stakeholders are working together in a Planning Group for Energy Development (PDP) with the aim of developing an inclusive, cost-effective and sustainable energy solution. A master plan for urban energy development ensures that domestic, renewable resources are used in line with the development goals, and to achieve this, the stakeholders complete a workshop series on various aspects relevant to planning in the energy sector. Armed with this newly-acquired knowledge, they can then technically and financially evaluate the proposals for energy development. The project also develops and disseminates a financing product that contributes to the implementation of the master plan.
NAMA-Program The project prepared the first nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) in Mexico in the key sectors of construction/refurbishment of residential buildings, energy efficiency in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and freight traffic. They were earmarked for broad-scale implementation with international co-financing. The project partners set up a NAMA coordination office in Mexico to effectively advise the local authorities. In this way, the project supported Mexican partner institutions, such as the environmental, energy, and transport ministries and the national housing commission, in developing strategies and financing mechanisms, setting up measuring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems, as well as developing the necessary capacity for implementing NAMAs.
Operational plans for climate-resilient Ejidos communities The mountainous region of Valle de Bravo-Amanalco is rich in biodiversity and part of the Cutzamala water system, which supplies Mexico City with water. Rising temperatures, forest fires, and activities such as deforestation and agriculture put pressure on the ecosystem and lead to water scarcity. The project integrates climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation into the land use processes of six ejidos. Ejidos are areas that belong to the community. The members of the ejidos are allowed to use the land for agricultural purposes, but do not have individual land rights. The project strengthens the technical and management capacity of the ejidos through training, workshops, and participatory territorial planning. Main beneficiaries of the project are the members of the ejidos as well as approximately 5,000 inhabitants of the region. Through collaboration with local governments, the project's outcomes are integrated into municipal development plans.
Microfinance for Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (MEbA) In Latin America, the implementation of adaptation strategies at the local level was difficult, because there were only a handful of approaches aimed at achieving this goal. This is why smallholders in particular were strongly affected by the impacts of climate change. Therefore, the project sought to support the development and dissemination of microfinance products such as small loans, which were used for climate change adaptation in the affected regions. To this end, the project built up know-how on ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in the microfinance institutions (MFIs). Using the instruments that have already been developed, the MFIs autonomously granted loans that enabled investments in EbA and increased the income of the borrowers. The project, implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme Panama, also worked with governments and development banks to create a favourable environment for the expansion of the approach.
Supporting climate strategies in countries where motorisation is rapidly increasing Transport sectors worldwide generate large quantities of greenhouse gases. The project supports developing countries to systematically record and reduce emissions in the transport sector so that the sectoral contribution to achieving the NDCs and long-term strategies is as high as possible. The project supports the development of climate protection strategies in the transport sector in the partner countries. At the same time, it strengthens methods for data collection and evaluation. The project promotes global exchange on transport data, emission factors and data management. It feeds methodological approaches into UN Climate Secretariat initiatives and coordinates them with other donors. Through regional ambition dialogues and cooperation with multipliers such as the NDC Partnership, the project makes project results available to other developing countries and emerging economies. A newly established secretariat as a platform for an international power-to-X network promotes the decarbonization of aviation and shipping.
Growth, Investment and the Low Carbon Transition: Constructing a Climate-Resilient Future for the G-20 The objective of this study was to present a compelling analysis of how sustainable, low-emissions and climate-resilient development can be achieved to minimise long-run structural adjustment costs without compromising economic growth, competitiveness, development and well-being. The study spelled out the implications of the climate goals agreed in Paris at COP21 for investments in physical infrastructure and a range of other issues (e.g. technology and land-use), and what could be done to ensure that policy and other choices yield the economic, social and environmental benefits desired by G20 countries consistent with containing climatic risks and enhancing resilience.
!Khwa ttu - Conserving biological diversity The buffer zone of South Africa’s West Coast National Park is home to a globally unique but endangered biodiversity. To address habitat loss in the fragmented region, the project created the conditions for !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre’s 850 ha farm to become legally proclaimed as a Protected Environment. To address habitat degradation, a pilot for ecosystem restoration has been implemented. Indigenous San living on the farm have extraordinary knowledge about plants, their uses and related livelihood opportunities. This knowledge was integrated into restoration activities and the development of learning tools. Young San from several countries did six months internships at the center and were trained to become young ambassadors for biodiversity in their home communities. Approaches for biodiversity conservation were also showcased for other landowners to promote expansion of the protected area in the 60km West Coast Biodiversity Corridor.
Catalysing decarbonisation of Indian steel In response to the increasing steel demand from the construction and infrastructure sectors, this project aims to catalyze the decarbonization of Indian steel production. The initiative focuses on creating an enabling environment for green steel by introducing regulatory, financial, and educational measures to integrate renewable energy and low-carbon technologies. Key actions include: 1. Implementing regulatory frameworks to support renewable energy integration; 2. Establishing innovative financing mechanisms that reduce investment risks in clean technologies; 3. Expanding the demand for and demonstration of Best Available Technologies (BATs); 4. Enhancing the knowledge and skills of industry stakeholders, including up-skilling women; 5. Demonstrating business models to boost green steel demand. The project anticipates leveraging approximately €600 million in combined private and public funding, aiming to significantly increase the adoption of low-carbon technologies in the sector.
REDD+ benefits: designing REDD+ benefit-sharing systems that reduce poverty In line with the national REDD+ strategies in the participating countries, the project examined and tested how benefits resulting from performance-based REDD+ measures can be shared in a way that reduces poverty. This analysis primarily concentrated on the necessary economic, political and institutional frameworks for such REDD+ sharing mechanisms. In pilot regions in the three partner countries, the project partners tested the participatory development and application of such sharing mechanisms. In cooperation with 'The Forest Dialogue', the lessons learned in the pilot projects were disseminated in order to strengthen South–South cooperation.
Demonstration Project in India for Converting a Production Facility to the Manufacture of Climate-Friendly Air-Conditioning Equipment The project has converted the production of air-conditioning systems by an Indian manufacturer from HCFCs to natural climate-friendly refrigerants (hydrocarbons), thereby establishing a best-practice model. The manufacture of energy-efficient models was a further aim. The project included training for production and service technicians to foster skills in the safe handling of flammable refrigerants and maintenance of the equipment. An action plan was developed to promote the market launch of energy-efficient, F-gas-free air-conditioning equipment (development of financial instruments and market-based incentives).
Fostering fiscal policy for climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean To shift financial flows it is key to also consider fiscal policy and green budgeting approaches. Finance ministries in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasing their awareness on climate change and the importance of fiscal policy in this regard but the scale of the challenge requires greater action. The fund works with these ministries to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives to increase the transparency, effectiveness, and efficiency of climate-related fiscal policies. These activities contribute to the successful design and implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions and long-term strategies. The Fund is also supporting the Regional Climate Change Platform of Finance Ministries to facilitate knowledge exchange. These activities help countries to achieve greater efficiency of climate-related spending and support fiscal policies for the transition to net zero emission and climate-resilient economies.
Implementation of the Sustainable Urban Transport Program Indonesia (SUTRI NAMA) This project will help transform urban transport with capacity building and investment. A Sustainable Urban Transport Fund will co-fund transport demand management measures, such as ‘park and ride’ facilities and the building of sidewalks and bicycle networks. The project will provide technical assistance to local governments, including assistance for reviewing Transport Master Plans and approaching investment programmes and the private sector for co-financing. It will stimulate a shift in local transport planning towards sustainable transport measures. Co-benefits include less congestion and air pollution, improved accessibility to public transport, creation of new jobs, and reduced social inequality. The transport sector emitted 25% of all energy-related emissions in 2010. With the rapid population growth and strong urbanization trends, demand is projected to highly increase. The Project could reduce GHG emissions by 0.9 to 1.7 Mt CO2e per year in 2030.
Programme of Activities (PoA) for Energy Efficiency Improvement in Buildings The objective of the project was to develop a 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) in the area of energy efficiency in buildings. Therefore the relatively newly developed and so far almost unused possibility of a 'Programme of Activities' (PoA) was used, as within the framework of these activities numerous efficiency measures shall be implemented in various buildings. As the city council in Manaus is responsible for more than 1000 buildings, the city council is the primary partner. Decisions concerning measures in bigger building complexes were made centrally; therefore, guidelines and measures were implemented rapidly. The approach ought to be transferred to the buildings of the Amazonian state government, which also owns similar buildings complexes in high numbers.
Support for the Brazilian National Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development (ANDUS) Urbanisation processes in Brazil are progressing rapidly, but the consequences are severe social disparities and environmental problems. The project supports federal, state and local stakeholders authorities in implementing strategies for integrated planning and in managing sustainable urban development. Mitigation and adaptation strategies, the urban-rural nexus and the importance of intact ecosystems as “green service providers” for cities are addressed. Existing regulations and instruments will be improved, expanded and tested in pilot measures. Approaches to integrated sustainable urban development are incorporated into government strategies, support programmes and funding lines. Training and dissemination concepts are intended to anchor these approaches in communities and local authorities. The German-Brazilian Urbanization Partnership also supports international learning and exchange processes.
National energy efficiency plan as a core element for an activity- and evidence-based mitigation strategy The project supported the Thai Government in implementing its National Energy Efficiency Plan in the industrial and building sectors. The data pool in particular has been improved in terms of sector-specific energy consumption and potential reductions. This data is helpful in calculating potential efficiency gains, creating new incentive systems, strengthening energy management and establishing optimised standards and designations. The project partners also elaborated and field tested nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs). With co-financing from the European Union, the policy advice was supplemented by concrete pilot measures for improving energy efficiency among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the automotive supply industry. The experience gained in using the instruments in the energy efficiency plan will contribute decisively to further policy making in this area.