The International Climate Initiative – achievements to date
(Last updated: November 2011)
Since ICI was launched in 2008, BMU has initiated 256 projects with funding totalling some 556 million euros. The projects run for up to six years. Additional capital contributed by the agencies implementing the projects and funding from other public and private-sector sources bring the total funding volume for the ICI projects to over 1.35 billion euros.
The projects are carried out by a broad range of entities – the majority by the German Government’s major implementing organisations: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and KfW Entwicklungsbank. BMU also commissions multilateral organisations, such as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and multilateral development banks, such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). About a quarter of the projects are implemented by NGOs, research institutes, foundations and private companies.
Regional focus
ICI’s 256 projects are distributed across partner countries in Asia, Central and Southeast Europe, the Newly Independent States, Central Asia, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Africa.
The ICI focuses on the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) and Russia. The Initiative has worked with these five countries on almost a third of its projects.
In addition to bilateral and supraregional projects, the Initiative supports projects with a global focus. 20 per cent of ICI’s total funds are allocated to projects of a global nature. The graphic below shows the precise regional distribution:
Focal themes
ICI’s work focuses on three areas:
• Building a climate-friendly economy
• Adaption to climate change
• Conservation and sustainable use of natural carbon reservoirs / REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation)
Building a climate-friendly economy is currently ICI’s priority: about 58 per cent of the projects target measures to reduce emissions, with a clear focus on energy efficiency and renewable energies.
Almost 28 per cent of ICI’s funding is allocated to projects in the field of carbon reservoirs /REDD+. The regions in question here are South America (Amazon region), Africa (Congo Basin) and Asia (Indonesian rainforest).
Climate change adaptation projects are currently under-represented, with 44 projects under way (14 per cent of the total support volume). They focus on supporting partner countries in developing and implementing national adaptation strategies and increasingly also on ecosystem adaptation.
With the exception of Brazil, cooperation with the BASIC countries primarily focuses on projects relating to building a climate-friendly economy. ICI assists partner countries in building an economic structure that largely avoids greenhouse gases emissions. Cooperation with Brazil is predominantly in the field of carbon reservoirs/REDD+.
