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Directorate-General for Climate Action, DG CLIMA

DG CLIMA leads the European Commission's efforts to fight climate change at EU and international level.

Directorate-General for Energy, DG ENER

DG ENER department is responsible for the EU's energy policy for a secure, sustainable, and competitively priced energy for Europe.

Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, DG NEAR

DG NEAR mission is to take forward the EU's neighbourhood and enlargement policies, as well as coordinating relations with EEA-EFTA countries insofar as Commission policies are concerned.

European Investment Bank

The European Investment Bank is the lending arm of the European Union. It is the world’s largest multilateral lender and the biggest provider of climate finance. The EIB Group has two parts: the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund and has more than 60 years’ experience and expertise in project financing. The European Investment Bank focuses on four areas: Innovation and skills, Small businesses, Infrastructure and Climate and environment. All the projects the Bank finances must be bankable. But they also must comply with high technical, environmental and social standards. The combined expertise of its economists, engineers, financial analysts and climate specialists ensures the success of its projects. The EIB response to today’s priorities goes beyond the EU borders. The EIB’s Economic Resilience Initiative increases financing in the Southern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans, also in the context of the migration challenge. As the EU bank, it has made climate action one of its top priorities and today it is the largest multilateral provider of climate finance worldwide. It commits to climate change adaptation and mitigation more than 25% of the Bank total financing. For investments in developing countries, this figure will rise to 35% by 2020. The EIB is providing USD 100bn of climate-related projects in the five years from 2016 to 2020, as it helps turn the COP21 ambitious Paris agreement into reality.

The World Bank

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. With 189 member countries and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), The International Development Association (IDA), The International Finance Corporation (IFC), The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The World Bank provides low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries. These support a wide array of investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. Some of the projects are cofinanced with governments, other multilateral institutions, commercial banks, export credit agencies, and private sector investors.

Agence Française de Développement

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) funds, supports and accelerates the transitions to a fairer and more sustainable world and commits financing and technical assistance to projects that genuinely improve everyday life, both in developing and emerging countries and in the French overseas provinces. In keeping with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, AFD works in many sectors — energy, healthcare, biodiversity, water, digital technology, professional training, among others — to assist with transitions towards a safer, more equitable, and more sustainable world : a world in common. Through a network of 85 field offices, it currently finances, monitors, and assists more than 2,500 development projects in 108 countries. The AFD strategy rests on a vision of “world in common” and five foundational commitments that underpin all actions: 100% Paris Agreement, 100% social link, 3D development thinking, non-sovereign first and partnership design. For them, supporting sustainable projects with strong impacts for populations involves submitting results to the judgments and opinions of all stakeholders. Informing, conducting dialogue and providing responses are consequently among the pillars of the Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility.

United Cities and Local Governments

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve. The organisation’s stated mission is: “To be the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community”. UCLG’s work programme focuses on increasing the role and influence of local government and its representative organisations in global governance; Becoming the main source of support for democratic, effective, innovative local government close to the citizen; Ensuring an effective and democratic global organisation. United Cities and Local Governments supports international cooperation between cities and their associations, and facilitates programmes, networks and partnerships to build the capacities of local governments. The organization promotes the role of women in local decision-making and is a gateway to relevant information on local government across the world.

Global Covenant of Mayors- GCoM

CoM Med is part of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) – the largest coalition of cities committed to local climate and energy action.The Global Covenant of Mayors works to organize and mobilize cities and local governments to be active contributors to a global climate solution.

Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy

The EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy brings together thousands of local governments voluntarily committed to implementing EU climate and energy objectives. The Covenant of Mayors was launched in 2008 in Europe with the ambition to gather local governments voluntarily committed to achieving and exceeding the EU climate and energy targets.The initiative now gathers 7,700+ local and regional authorities across 57 countries drawing on the strengths of a worldwide multi-stakeholder movement and the technical and methodological support offered by dedicated offices.

Joint Research Centre (JRC)

As the European Commission's science and knowledge service, the JRC supports the European union’s (EU) policies with independent scientific evidence throughout the whole policy cycle. The JRC creates, manages and makes sense of knowledge and develops innovative tools on the disposal of policy makers.      

The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)

The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) is an intergovernmental Euro-Mediterranean organization, which brings together all 28 countries of the European Union and 15 countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. UfM’s mission is to enhance regional cooperation, dialogue and the implementation of projects and initiatives with tangible impact on our citizens, with an emphasis on young people and women, in order to address the three strategic objectives of the region: stability, human development and integration.        

The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa - CoM SSA

The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA) is an initiative founded by European Union (EU) to support Sub-Saharan Africa cities in their fight against climate change through a voluntary commitment. It is a bottom-up initiative and a voluntary that allows cities to define and meet ambitious and realistic targets set by themselves in line with the covenant methodology. CoM SSA is opened to any cities in Sub-Saharan Africa regardless of size.

EU Neighbourhood South

EU Neighbours South is an EU-funded regional communication Programme designed to create awareness about the European Union in the Southern Neighbourhood region which includes 10 countries and territories: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia. The general objective of this Programme is to contribute to the improvement of public perception and attitudes towards the EU and to the development of a more receptive environment for European values in Neighbourhood partner countries, by communicating about the impacts of the EU partnership in the Southern Neighbourhood region. The Programme complements and supports the communication work of the EU Delegations in the countries and works closely with the communication teams at the European Commission.

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