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	Completed
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	Completed
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)	Completed
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	Completed
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	Started	Dec 2013

Last updated: 05 Apr 2012

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