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September 2011

GIZ Country Activities

The German government’s CDM/JI Initiative focuses in the main on large emerging economies and developing countries like China, India, Brazil and Mexico, and also on the most important of the JI partner countries, Russia and Ukraine. Another of its functions is to foster cooperation with countries with whom Germany has already signed a Memoranda of Understanding. MoUs are currently in place with Egypt, Azerbaijan, Israel, Mexico, Peru and Tunisia.

In implementing the initiative, the German Environment Ministry works with a broad range of people and organisations who work with the Kyoto Mechanisms. These include other federal ministries and subordinate agencies, research institutes and private bodies – both in Germany and in host countries. The activities conducted as part of the initiative take a long-term approach and pursue a clear objective of continuing cooperation efforts when the first Kyoto Protocol commitment period ends in 2012.

The German government is working to create networks in selected countries, the aim being to nurture close and regular contacts with local businesses, government agencies and so on. These networks draw on the experience of and contacts maintained by local practitioners such as GIZ, the German chambers of commerce overseas and German businesses who operate in the area. They are designed to help businesses who either develop CDM projects, invest in them or supply the necessary technology to gain a better insight into local conditions and assess available investment opportunities. Another function of the networks is to boost CDM/JI capacities in host countries.

The German Environment Ministry has asked GIZ to establish and expand such networks in the emerging economies of India, Brazil, the MENA region and Uganda. Country-specific experts have been hired for each of the countries in question. These support German project developers by providing country-specific information, establishing contacts, identifying projects and screening them as regard their feasibility.