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.
Introducing Unified Environmental Permits in Ukraine
On 27 May, the Roundtable on Prevention and Control of Industrial Pollution Reform: Introduction of Unified Environmental Permits took place in Kyiv, jointly organised with the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine. The event focused on further developing Ukraine’s environmental regulatory framework to align it with European Union standards. Representatives of government institutions, international partners, and the expert community gathered to discuss the future unified environmental permitting system for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As part of its path towards EU membership, Ukraine is undertaking one of its most important environmental reforms:…










