Projects

Promoting Community Conservation Resilience Completed

Project Lead: Simone Lovera
01 Mar 2015 to 30 Apr 2019

The aim of the project was to contribute to the implementation of the CBDs 2011-2020 Strategic Plan and Aichi Targets by providing policy advice on effective and appropriate forms of support for comm...
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Scaling-up Biodiversity Communication for Achieving Aichi Target 1 Completed

Project Lead: Gunter Mitlacher, Christine Van Deuren
01 Jan 2018 to 31 May 2023

Aichi Biodiversity Target 1 states that by 2020, at the latest, people should be aware of the values of biodiversity, and the steps they can take to conserve and use it sustainably. The project aims t...
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Strategic Environmental Dialogues On-going

01 Jan 2014 to 30 Jun 2027

The 2030 Agenda and the Paris agreement on Climate change call for the global transformation of economies and lifestyles, providing new impetus for sustainable development. The accompanying internatio...
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Strategic Partnerships for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement (SPIPA) Completed

Project Lead: Nicole Kranz
01 Mar 2018 to 31 Mar 2023

The project contributed to translating the political commitment for advancing bilateral dialogues and cooperation in the field of climate action into concrete interventions, aligning with the ambition...
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Strengthen National Climate Policy Implementation: Comparative Empirical Learning & Creating Linkage to Climate Finance (SNAPFI) Completed

Project Lead: David Rusnok
01 Jul 2019 to 30 Jun 2023

As part of implementing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), governments face the challenge of supporting national climate policies and institutions with limited public funds while also reducin...
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Support to Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs) On-going

01 Nov 2013 to 31 Dec 2024

Indigenous peoples and local communities play a crucial role in the conservation of biological diversity. The project supports these communities in 45 countries in preserving their traditional habitat...
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Supporting PAGE Countries on Green Economic Recovery from Covid-19 Completed

01 Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2022

The UN initiative “Partnership for Action on Green Economy” (PAGE), founded in the context of the Rio+20 conference in 2012, strives to enable the transformation of an economy that is not only int...
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Supporting the Nitric Acid Climate Action Group (NACAG) Completed

Project Lead: Kundan Burnwal
01 Nov 2016 to 30 Sep 2021

The project aims to support countries participating in the NACAG Initiative by means of a technical advisory and support unit (TBU) for planning and implementing specific measures for a sustainable re...
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The Bonn Challenge Barometer of Progress On-going

01 Oct 2016 to 30 Jun 2024

Forests possess a great variety of species, serve as carbon sinks and fulfil many other functions that must be preserved. The Bonn Challenge is the most important international initiative for forest r...
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Tracking and Strengthening Climate Action (TASCA) Completed

Project Lead: Kelly Levin
01 Nov 2016 to 31 Dec 2021

Efficient Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) tracking systems are necessary for demonstrating and reporting progress. Existing Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) systems must be stren...
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