Even 30 years after the Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change came into force, the capac­i­ties for design­ing and imple­ment­ing effec­tive cli­mate poli­cies are still weak in the coun­tries of the project region. The coun­tries are unit­ed by the chal­lenge of suc­cess­ful­ly trans­form­ing their eco­nom­ic sys­tems into open mar­ket economies while inte­grat­ing ambi­tious cli­mate pro­tec­tion poli­cies into nation­al devel­op­ment plan­ning. Above all, there is a lack of per­son­nel and insti­tu­tion­al skills and exper­tise. The project imple­ments mea­sures to raise aware­ness among deci­sion-mak­ers and improve nation­al frame­work con­di­tions so that the pre­con­di­tions for a sig­nif­i­cant reduc­tion of green­house gas­es are cre­at­ed and eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion goals are achieved at the same time. Fur­ther­more, pilot activ­i­ties and addi­tion­al indi­vid­ual and small-scale mea­sures are imple­ment­ed to strength­en capac­i­ties that result from con­crete needs in the project region.