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• Examiners: Australia & United Kingdom
• Field visit: Morocco & Zambia (Annex D)
• Next peer review due: 2015

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Implementation of 2005
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Collaboration between BMZ and BMU on climate change protection

BMU and BMZ are co-operating closely to combat climate change. In 2008 BMU launched an innovative mechanism to finance climate protection projects – the International Climate Initiative (ICI). For 2010 BMU and BMZ agreed informally on priority activities in the framework of the ICI, including activities covering mitigation, adaptation and reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) and encouraging sustainable forest management activities – REDD+). The ICI is funded by government revenues from the sale of CO2 emission certificates. In both 2008 and 2009, EUR 120 million were earmarked for the ICI in the federal budget. Germany is the first country to earmark revenues from the auctioning of emission trading certificates for investments in climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. The ICI thereby complements the BMZ activities in the area of climate change protection and biodiversity. Both ministries mutually agreed how to develop country-specific priorities in German climate policy.

Read more about how BMU and BMZ are co-operating to combat climate change