The Development Ministry (BMZ) will actively support Kenya in implementing its ambitious goals for a just energy transition. That is what the two countries agreed at their government negotiations in Berlin. The priority areas of this cooperation are developing renewable energies, expanding the electricity network, establishing hydrogen production and creating new jobs.

Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary in the Development Ministry, will visit South Africa from today until 9 December for the 4th German-African Business Summit (GABS). One important aspect of the visit will be looking at ways to achieve climate-neutral economic systems and a just energy transition. He will be accompanied by the new BMZ Commissioner for the Just Energy Transition Partnership with South Africa, Rainer Baake.

Germany will scale up its support for helping Serbia become less dependent on fossil energy. This was agreed by the two countries at government negotiations on future development cooperation. The central focus of this cooperation is the green transformation based on expanding the use of renewables.

The 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) ended today in Sharm el-Sheikh. As Team Germany, the Federal Government has worked both in the negotiations and through concrete initiatives and partnerships for greater ambition in containing the climate crisis and for more solidarity with the countries impacted most by it.

The negotiations at the international climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh are entering their final phase today. It is already clear that it has been possible, beyond the negotiations themselves, to agree on substantial tangible advances that will mitigate global emissions and the impacts of the climate crisis.

The Global Shield against Climate Risks is a joint initiative of the G7 and the V20 (an association of countries particularly threatened by climate change). It bundles activities in the field of climate risk insurance and prevention.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Only together can we identify ambitious solutions and implement them fast enough. The BMZ supports developing countries and emerging economies with a wide range of measures and programmes to achieve their climate commitments and to protect themselves against the impacts of climate change.

Three projects from Madagascar, India and Ethiopia illustrate how digital climate information services, circular economy and landscape approaches can contribute to climate change adaptation.

The increasing number and intensity of droughts, floods, and heavy rainfall show that the climate crisis is equally a water crisis. The BMZ understands water as a central element in advancing climate change adaptation and mitigation goals.

Climate risk management helps address the remaining climate risks by using a range of effective and innovative tools and measures to prevent, minimise and manage loss and damage.

Effective adaptation strategies can enable local smallholder farmers to better cope with these challenges in Ghanas Upper West Region.