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Climate change: policies and priorities

Climate change: policies and priorities. German Federal Ministry for the Environment Regional and bilateral cooperation with Central Asian countries. Starting point. Support for regional activities via UNECE - EfE, EAP Task Force (OECD), EU Strategy for Central Asia

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Climate change: policies and priorities

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  1. Climate change: policies and priorities German Federal Ministry for the Environment Regional and bilateral cooperation with Central Asian countries

  2. Starting point • Support for regional activities via UNECE - EfE, EAP Task Force (OECD), EU Strategy for Central Asia • Since 2008 intensified bilateral cooperation –MoUs on environment and climate protection • Capacity building for mitigation and adaption • Bilateral projects on promoting biodiversity • Berlin Process by Foreign Ministry

  3. Approach • Create awareness and enable change • Demonstrate potentials via pilot initiatives, light house projects • Good practice dissemination via networks • Support multiplication of results • Support an incentivizing legal-economic framework • Support creation of sustainable financing mechanisms • Enhance access to financing and increase absorption capacity • Continuous dialogue on political level

  4. Mitigation and low carbon growth • Regional project: Improving incentive framework and capacity for green, climate-related investment • Goal: Reap potentials for low-cost mitigation measures; mobilise green, low-carbon investment • Approach: • Identification of suitable policies that increase private and public investment into mitigation measures; support inter-ministerial initiatives • Enhance access to international and domestic climate finance • Concepts for overcoming existing barriers to leverage financing • Enhancing absorption capacity • Support of policy dialogue across Ministries and among public and private sector • Partners: national Ministries, OECD • Duration: 2013 - 2016

  5. Mitigation and low carbon growth • Regional project: Integrated Approach for the Development of Climate-Friendly Economies in Central Asia • Goal: support sector-specific low-carbon development concepts • Approach: • Supporting formulation of NAMAs for the non-Annex 1 countries in Central Asia and instruments for developing and implementing a Green Growth strategy for Kazakhstan • Blue prints for key designs on sectoral level (energy efficient housing, renewables in rural areas) • Capacity building, training and technology transfer • Communication with UNFCCC; Presentation of NAMAs to governments and donors • Partners: MKUR, national experts, CAREC, DIW econ • Duration: January 2012 – December 2013

  6. Adaptation • Adressingkeyneeds: sustainablelandandforestmanagement Tajikistan: 2008-2011 (GIZ) Turkmenistan: 2008-2012 (GIZ) Turkmenistan andUzbekistan: 2013-2014 (GIZ) • Rehabiliationofdegradedland • Preventionoferosions • Improvinglocalmicroclimate • Stabilisingeco-systems, protectingbiodiversity • SupportingandStrengthening Establishment of National Parks andBiospereReserves

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