The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) set up climate-policy interface projects (“(IKI) Interface projects”) in order to support its work on climate and biodiversity in selected priority countries of the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The Interface Projects support BMUV in the area of knowledge-sharing and networking in IKI partner countries that have substantial IKI portfolios and which are important partners for BMUV in the field of climate and biodiversity policy.
Specifically, the Interface Projects aim, firstly, to facilitate the political and strategic steering of projects and portfolios by BMUV and BMWK and, secondly, to underpin the policy dialogue with partner governments in both the bilateral and multilateral context.
Through regular exchanges between the institutions implementing IKI-financed projects in individual countries as well as between BMUV and BMWK and the Interface Projects, BMUV’s overarching aim is to establish a continuous flow of information and so jointly address climate and biodiversity themes and challenges though a collaborative approach. The effectiveness of the measures in the partner countries is to be increased by sharing lessons learned, technical know-how and contacts. At bilateral and multilateral level, the main objective is to contribute to putting into practice the responsibilities and obligations resulting from the global agendas (UNFCCC, CBD, SDGs)–to which BMUV and its partner countries are committed–and to do this more coherently, effectively and quickly.
Connecting all IKI stakeholders in Ukraine through in-depth exchange and coordination formats is therefore an important apporach of the Interface Project Ukraine. The Project is run by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
