The International Climate Initiative supports its partner countries in developing economic structures that avoid greenhouse gas emissions to the greatest extent possible.
The International Climate Initiative is committed to assisting its partner countries achieve the Aichi Targets in the Strategic Plan 2011–2020 of the international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
The International Climate Initiative supports partner countries and initiatives that contribute to the development of the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) mechanism in developing countries.
The International Climate Initiative supports particularly vulnerable countries and regions in improving their capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change.
Germany is fulfilling the commitments established for financing climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. In addition, the German Government is working towards a new international climate financing architecture as part of an ambitious, comprehensive and binding climate agreement to be adopted at the 2015 Conference of the Parties.
In the last seven years, Germany has increased six-fold its financial contribution to biodiversity conservation and protection of ecosystems worldwide and has also developed new sources of finance. This is a clear demonstration of the high degree of importance the German Government attaches to global biodiversity conservation.
The key role of cities as players in climate change was formally recognised for the first time at the climate negotiations in Paris. At the third UN summit on housing and sustainable urban development – the ‘Habitat III’ conference in Quito in October 2016 – the ‘New Urban Agenda’ also anchored global objectives and orientations for sustainable urban development.
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