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UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UK PACT)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (UK PACT) is the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) flagship technical assistance programme and is funded via the UK’s International Climate Finance (ICF) commitment. UK PACT operates in countries with high greenhouse gas emissions that are eligible to receive Official Development Assistance (ODA) and have potential for high emissions reduction. UK PACT supports these countries to increase and implement their ambitions for emissions reductions in line with internationally agreed commitments (NDCs). UK PACT works strategically to leverage the UK’s position as a global leader in tackling climate change to provide support and share expertise, build strong relationships with other governments, and deliver transformational assistance
2050 Calculator
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The International 2050 Calculator Programme was a technical assistance programme, funded by UK International Climate Finance (ICF), a ring-fenced portion of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget for climate change, through the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). The programme supported ODA-eligible countries develop their own interactive 2050 Calculator energy and emissions tools.
Climate Ambition Support Alliance (CASA)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Climate Ambition Support Alliance (CASA) programme will work through secondary providers to provide training, in addition to technical, legal and logistical support for developing country negotiators, in order to build the capacity of the least developed and most climate vulnerable states to participate in the international negotiations process and be more effective in influencing its outcomes.
Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
To accelerate the transformation of developing countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions into a pipeline of bankable projects, which have the potential to attract investment at scale from the private sector. The CFA will achieve this by facilitating ‘transaction-oriented’ workshops, convening project developers, policy makers and capital market players from participant countries with UK-based green finance experts.
The Global Innovation Lab - (Continuation of the Capital Markets Climate Initiative)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Global Innovation Lab (the Lab) is a public-private partnership that brings together experts from Governments, investors and civil society to discuss and help understand the barriers to investment. It works to identify, refine, and launch innovative financial instruments to attract private investment in climate change mitigation and adaptation at scale. It aims to drive billions of dollars of private investment into low-carbon, climate resilient economies.
BioCarbon Fund (BioCF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Fund will provide technical assistance for REDD+ implementation and measures which improve the enabling environment for private sector investment; offer a finance for Verified Emission Reductions associated with avoided deforestation; and secures private sector finance, for example through purchasing commitments for sustainable commodities produced in the jurisdiction (sometimes called ‘offtake agreements’). Each country programme under the BioCarbon Fund will operate at the jurisdiction-scale, that is within a landscape-wide area that is governed by a single political jurisdiction.
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) was established in 2008 to assist developing countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and foster conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (all activities commonly referred to as "REDD+") by providing value to standing forests. The FCPF is a multi-donor Trust Fund managed by the World Bank. It has two separate but complementary funding mechanisms — the Readiness Fund and the Carbon Fund.
REDD Early Movers (REM) Programme
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The REDD+ Early Movers (REM) Programme, currently operational in Latin America, aims to reward countries or jurisdictions considered as pioneers in forest protection and climate mitigation. It targets countries or regions that have already taken ambitious actions to protect forests and provides conditional payments upon verified emission reductions from avoided deforestation (REDD+). Results-based payments in the REM Programme are invested according to a “benefit-sharing strategy” that has been jointly agreed by partners.
Carbon Initiative For Development (Ci-Dev)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Carbon Initiative for Development (Ci-Dev) aims to increase the flow of international carbon finance, primarily into Least Developed Countries (LDCs). It launched in 2013 and supports climate change mitigation in pursuit of the Paris Agreement’s goals and facilitates access to cleaner energy and other poverty reducing technologies. It guarantees a revenue stream if projects deliver their expected benefits, builds local capacity to develop projects and monitor carbon emissions, and pilots projects that could serve as blueprints to increase LDC access to the international carbon market
Transformative Carbon Asset Fund (TCAF)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Transformative Carbon Asset Facility will target sector or policy wide programmes where the implementing country is planning to take climate mitigation action. This could be via regulations, fiscal policies, feed-in-tariff or incentives. As long as these plans are in line with the TCAF programme selection criteria, in collaboration with the implementing entity (normally a Government ministry) TCAF will design a methodology that pays for the verified emissions reductions of the programme above its intended ambition, giving targeted support to unlock the barriers to allow the increased ambition to be realised.
Global Facility to Decarbonise Transport (GFDT)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
A new multilateral World Bank Trust Fund providing technical assistance to support the decarbonisation of the transport sector in developing countries. BEIS is providing £4m as a founding donor to support GFDT’s early delivery.
South East Asia Energy Transition Programme (ETP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Technical Assistance programme involving donor countries and philanthropies to support the energy transition across developing countries in South East Asia.
Accelerate to Demonstrate (A2D)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The A2D programme contributes to the UK’s £1bn Ayrton Fund commitment to accelerate clean energy innovation in developing countries. A2D will focus on developing innovative technology-based solutions particularly through transformational “lighthouse” pilot demonstration projects in four thematic areas: critical minerals, clean hydrogen, industrial decarbonisation and smart energy.
IDB Amazon Bioeconomy and Forests Management Multi-Donor Trust Fund
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The AMDTF supports national and subnational entities, and public and private entities, in the Amazonian countries to plan, design and implement investments to halt deforestation, increase forest restoration and conservation, and improve sustainable landscape management and climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Amazon region.
Amazon Fund
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Amazon Fund is a REDD+ mechanism created to raise donations for non-reimbursable investments in efforts to prevent, monitor and combat deforestation, as well as to promote the preservation and sustainable use in the Brazilian Amazon. The UK committed to funding £115 million total for results-based finance at $5 per tonne and £3.5 million for technical assistance, of which £2 million will be destined for GIZ Action for Forests programme. £1.5 million is for MEL.
Accelerating Innovation Monitoring For Forests (AIM4Forests)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Programme supports 20 countries with institutionalised National Forest Monitoring Systems that inform domestic policy and decision-making and provide high-integrity MRV through modern monitoring technologies and innovative approaches. The Programme alos aims to enable participation in REDD+ and emerging carbon finance opportunities, and drive down global emissions from the forest and land-use sector, while strengthening AFOLU contribution in NDCs.
Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership (FCLP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Under the UK Presidency of COP26, over 140 governments signed the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use, committing to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 while promoting sustainable development. To support this, the UK helped establish the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), a coalition focused on achieving the goals of the declaration. The FCLP provides a platform for political action and targeted 'Action Areas' to address barriers to forest protection. This program will fund the establishment of a Secretariat to support FCLP members from 2024-2030, including the development of ‘Forest Country Packages’ to enhance financial impact for forests.
Scaling Climate Action by Lowering Emissions (SCALE) and Enhancing Access to Benefits whilst Lowering Emissions (EnABLE)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
SCALE will provide "end-to-end" support for large, jurisdictional-scale, nature-based emission reductions programming in ODA-eligible countries. This means it will provide upfront technical assistance and grant support to generate high-integrity emission reductions, mobilise further implementation funding from other World Bank programming, verify the emission reductions as carbon credits against high-integrity carbon market standards and use results-based climate finance to provide a guarantee of payment for those carbon credits. SCALE is designed to maximise the mobilisation of additional finance through the sale of carbon credits through carbon markets, to both private sector and Article 6 transactions. EnABLE is an associated programme which aims to help marginalised and vulnerable communities gain access to the carbon and non-carbon benefits generated by SCALE-financed emission reduction programmes.
Climate Investment Funds (CIFs)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The $8 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) accelerates climate action by empowering transformations in clean technology, energy access, climate resilience, and sustainable forests in developing and middle income countries. The CIF’s large-scale, low-cost, long-term financing lowers the risk and cost of climate financing. It tests new business models, builds track records in unproven markets, and boosts investor confidence to unlock additional sources of finance.
Clean Energy Transition Programme (CETP)
UK - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Clean Energy Transitions Programme (CETP) leverages the IEA’s unique energy expertise across all fuels and technologies to accelerate global clean-energy transitions, particularly in major emerging economies. The Programme includes collaborative analytical work, technical cooperation, training and capacity building and strategic dialogues.
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