Climate Diplomacy Action Programme (CDAP)

The Climate Diplomacy Action Programme supports the Federal Foreign Office (AA) in the implementation of German foreign climate policy and accompanies Germany's climate policy cooperation with its partner countries. In doing so, the so called "IKI framework project for climate foreign policy" is guided by the AA's current priorities in international climate policy as well as the requirements of the partner countries and implements regional and bilateral measures in selected thematic areas, such as climate protection, loss and damage, resilience, adaptation to the consequences of climate change, energy, agricultural and food systems, water management, climate diplomacy, climate financing, climate and security. The project takes into account the principles of just transition, feminist foreign policy and the international debate on loss and damage, as well as the horizontal linkages between the thematic areas, such as climate and security or climate and energy.

Project data

Countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Fiji, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Türkiye, United States, Viet Nam, Kosovo
IKI funding: 30,000,000.00 €
Duration: 04/2023 till 09/2027
Status: open
Implementing organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Political Partner: Diverse climate change relevant institutions in the respective partner countries/Diverse klimarelevante Institutionen in den entsprechenden Partnerländern

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State of implementation/results

15 young people who are committed to climate protection were given the opportunity to participate in the COP30 in Baku and thus gain experience in UNFCCC processes and contribute their concerns to the discussion process.
CDAP supports the APRA (Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa) initiative, which promotes the expansion of renewable energies in Africa, e.g. by preparing the APRA Investment Forum in October 2024 (Nairobi) and October 2025 (Freetown), which facilitates the networking of specific energy projects with potential investors. Cooperation with the private sector was supported in dialogue formats as part of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogues (BETD) and the African Energy Forum in March 2025 and Intersolar Africa in February 2026
Support for the German-Chinese Track II dialogue (T2D) on climate change and sustainable development: delegation trips, plenary meetings in China and Germany (Shanghai in May 2024, Potsdam in October 2024, Chengdu in April 2025, Berlin in September 2025), support for thematic working groups with other implementation partners and organisation of side events in the German pavilion at COP28 and COP30 and in the Chinese pavilion at COP29 with high-ranking representatives from both sides.
Supporting the AA in the organisation of the Partnership Trust Fund of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) to promote financing mechanisms for phasing out coal in the region.
Publication of the Green Guarantee Directory, the first publicly accessible, centralised database of environmentally and climate-friendly guarantee products offered by public and private institutions worldwide.
Two activities supported by CDAP were completed in Kenya in 2026. These included a final report of the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) II, which describes the implementation of Kenya's climate targets. In addition, a plan for climate protection investments was drafted for NCCAP III, which will provide governmental and non-governmental actors with guidance for climate protection in Kenya in the coming years.
As part of the COP30 in Brazil, the CDAP-supported Just Transition (JT) Compass was published, which is intended to help develop fair strategies for climate change by mapping the current JT landscape and highlighting implementation paths. In addition, the Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2026 was also launched. The key findings were presented at a press conference and the latest version of the CRI is now publicly available.

Latest Update:
04/2026