International
Climate Initiative (IKI)

The African Carbon Asset Development Facility (ACAD) announced at the second African Bankers' Carbon Finance and Investment Forum on 4 November 2010 in Johannesburg that it would be supporting seven climate protection projects. The event was co-sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), the European Commission and the World Bank.

ICI projects support the negotiation process in many ways. They demonstrate that climate protection and adaptation to climate change are technically possible and economically viable. The projects encourage innovations that are crucial to preparing the way for a resilient, low carbon economy. 

On the occasion of the International Tiger Forum in St. Petersburg hosted by Russian Prime Minister Putin, Jürgen Becker, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, pledged an additional EUR 4 million for protection of forests in the tiger habitat area in the Russian Far East. In this way, within the framework of the International Climate Initiative, Germany is helping to preserve large forested areas as carbon reservoirs.

On Monday, 18 October 2010, the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was opened in Nagoya. The conference will continue until 29 October 2010. With Japan as chair, over these two weeks the global community will negotiate measures against the ongoing destruction of nature

How do you measure whether and to what extent a project is helping to mitigate climate change? In an ICI project, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH has now trialled a greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring approach that can help quantify the impact on climate change of a policy advice project on expending wind energy in Viet Nam. 

Every year, millions of people are stricken by extreme weather events and natural catastro-phes: crops fail, homes are flooded and property is destroyed. As a result of climate change, these weather hazards are becoming more severe and happening ever more frequently. Ty-phoons in Southern China are just one example.

'25,000 solar roofs for Mexico' is the slogan of a project funded by the German Environment Ministry (BMU)

Climate change is one of the most important social and political themes of recent years, and one that features in the media every day.

Germany and Ukraine plan to expand their cooperation in the field of the environment. This was agreed by the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry, Michael Müller and the Ukrainian Vice Minister for the Environment Stepan Lysun during the meeting of the German-Ukrainian Environment Commission in Kiev.

Between 26 and 28 May, Cologne will be buzzing with talk of emissions trading and climate protection. The German Environment Ministry (BMU) and German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) will once again set out the German stall at Carbon Expo, the Global Carbon Market Fair and Conference.