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Combat climate change

Drive urgent action to tackle climate change, and support adaptation and low carbon growth in developing countries

 

Actions Start End
6.1 Establish Advocacy Fund to help the very poorest developing countries take part in international climate change negotiations
  • Develop and launch Advocacy Fund
Started Sep 2011
  • Monitor and evaluate the impact and value for money of the Advocacy Fund
Sep 2012 Mar 2013
6.2 Support developing countries’ climate adaptation and low carbon growth
  • Develop new programme to improve forest management and tackle illegal logging in order to reduce deforestation
Completed
  • Develop methodologies and indicators to track impact and value for money, on adaptation, low carbon development and protecting forests
Completed
  • Start implementation of new programme to tackle illegal logging and deforestation
Mar 
2012
Mar
2012
  • Publish the UK’s International Climate Fund Plan, working jointly with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and HM Treasury (HMT)
Oct
2011
Oct
2011
  • Support the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to enable developing countries to access the best climate change knowledge, research and data so that they can build resilience to climate change, adopt low-carbon growth and tackle poverty
Started Mar
2015
  • Support, together with other donors, the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Started June 2014
  • Provide UK inputs to second EU report on progress of Fast Start Funding
Nov
2011
Nov
2011
  • Provide UK inputs to final EU report on Fast Start Funding
Nov
2012
Nov
2012
6.3 Make DFID programmes more climate smart
  • Develop and launch the new Environment and Climate Assessment to ensure that environment issues are fully addressed in DFID projects
Completed
  • Pilot Strategic Climate Programme Reviews in six countries to ensure that climate issues are addressed in DFID country business plans
Completed
  • Roll out Strategic Climate Programme Reviews in all programme countries to ensure that climate issues are addressed in DFID country business plans
Sep 2011 Dec 2013
Last updated: 03 Oct 2011