FCRA PROJECTM2M
FCRA PROJECT: INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE INITIATIVE FUND!
Deadline: 06th
june 2016
Since 2008, the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal
Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
(BMUB) has been financing climate and biodiversity projects in developing and
newly industrialising countries, as well as in countries in transition. In the
early years of the programme, its financial resources came from the proceeds of
auctioning allowances under the emissions trading scheme. To ensure financial
continuity, further funds were made available through the Special Energy and
Climate Fund. Both funding mechanisms are now part of the Federal Environment
Ministry’s regular budget.
The IKI is a key element of Germany’s climate financing and the funding
commitments in the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The
Initiative places clear emphasis on climate change mitigation, adaption to the
impacts of climate change and the protection of biological diversity. These
efforts provide various co-benefits, particularly the improvement of living
conditions in partner countries.
Guidelines and Standard Indicators
Project application is open to applicants worldwide
through an annual call for proposals. This two-stage procedure is designed to
ensure that funding is awarded to ambitious projects with the most suitable
implementing organisations. The following points apply in particular to BMUB-funded
projects:
Designing an international climate finance architecture:
The IKI supports mechanisms for mobilising
additional funding, private investments in particular, as well as sustainable
business models for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
measures.
Innovation and the multiplier effect:
IKI projects should follow technologically,
environmentally, methodologically or institutionally ambitious and replicable
approaches that are transferrable and that achieve results beyond individual
projects.
Transparency and Coherence:
The IKI supports its partner countries in making
measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) contributions to climate change
mitigation. BMU also participates in the international debate on MRV. On the
one hand, it is continuously improving its own monitoring approach. The
planning and monitoring of IKI projects follows the impact logic of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). On the other
hand, the IKI also focuses on strengthening transparency and governance structures
in international climate financing.
Learning from Experience:
Stakeholders active in the IKI use platforms such
as workshops or online networks to exchange experiences and know-how and learn
from one another. An independent evaluation of individual projects and the
entire programme provide important insights for continuously improving the IKI.
Standard Indicators:
As from 2015, all new projects are to use not only
the project-specific indicators, but also the overarching standard indicators
that summarise the central impacts of the IKI funding programme. Each project
reports on all standard indicators to which it has made a significant
contribution.
IKI's standard
indicators are:
Reduction indicator: Reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions and increase in carbon storage (as tonnes of carbon dioxide
equivalent) in the project/programme area.
Adaptation indicator: Number of people the project
directly assists with adaptation to climate change impacts or ecosystem
conservation.
Ecosystem indicator: Ecosystem area (in hectares)
that is improved or protected by the project’s activities.
Policy indicator: Number of new or improved policy
frameworks for managing climate change and/or conserving biodiversity.
Institution indicator: Number of new or improved
institutionalised structures or processes for managing climate change and/or
conserving biodiversity.
Methods indicator: Number of new or improved
methodological tools for managing climate change and conserving biodiversity.