EU NEIGHBOURS . Representatives from the EU’s six Eastern partner countries met in Tbilisi on 18 November to discuss their progress in mitigating climate change and adapting to its effects by introducing climate-sensitive policies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Organised by the EU and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the EU4Climate programme, the two-day regional discussion assembled high-level officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, as well as participants from the Western Balkans, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Netherlands’s Royal Meteorological Institute and the World Recourse Institute.
The regional workshop supports policymakers from the six Eastern Partner countries in implementing the Paris Agreement, the landmark document that unites the world in fighting climate change.
The EU4Climate initiative was launched in response to the direct and real threat of climate change. It aims to support the six Eastern partner countries to develop and implement climate-related policies based on their commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, the Association and Partnership Agreements with the EU, the Eastern Partnership’s ‘20 Deliverables for 2020’ (in particular the climate-related deliverables 15 and 16) and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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The project is funded by the EU and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme. Its total budget is €8.8 million.
Photo: UNDP
