Support Project for the Implementation of the Paris Agreement (SPA)

• Strengthen the capacities of partner countries to successfully implement climate policy, reduce greenhouse gases and increase adaptive capacity, and thus help them to contribute to achieving the long-term objective of the Paris Agreement
• Provide a link between German international climate policy and development cooperation

With four components three initiatives (co-)founded by the BMUB: the IKI NDC Support Cluster, the NDC Partnership, and the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement. With one component, SPA specifically supports the development, improvement and implementation of developing countries’ NDC adaptation goals and makes use of the platforms that are already available as part of the initiatives mentioned above in this process.As an overarching advisory project SPA continuously ensures information exchange between the initiatives, fosters cooperation of the actors involved, and creates synergies. In all components the project contributes to capacity building by providing advisory services and platforms for exchange. In addition, it pools and disseminates climate policy knowledge and cases studies.

In Morocco and Peru, SPA coordinates the bilateral activities of the NDC Cluster.

Through its activities SPA reaches a broad target group around the world. The experience and lessons learned are fed into international discussions on climate policy implementation and the UNFCCC negotiations process.

• Policy dialogue related to UNFCCC negotiations
• Peer-to-peer exchange on NDC implementation and transparency
• Capacity building for on NDC implementation and transparency
• Knowledge management related to on NDC implementation and transparency
• Networking
• Policy advice for BMUB

• Policy makers worldwide
• Climate change practitioners involved in NDC implementation and setting up transparency systems

• Development of processes and formats as part of the NDC Partnership to analyse the support that partner countries need to implement NDCs and select appropriate advisory approaches and financing from various partners, expert organisations, and finance institutions.
• Development of formats for analysing lessons learned from successful NDC implementation and financing from NDC Partnership countries.
• Collaboration on the NDC Toolbox Navigator of the NDC Partnership (http://www.ndcpartnership.org/toolbox-navigator#tools).
• Re-launch of the website of the Transparency Partnership: https://www.transparency-partnership.net
• Annual Partnership Retreats of the Transparency Partnership in Georgia 2017 and Cape Town in 2016 (https://www.transparency-partnership.net/activity/partnership-global).
• Several workshop in the regional groups of the Transparency Partnership (https://www.transparency-partnership.net/activity/partnership-regional).
• Global workshop (https://www.transparency-partnership.net/international-bur-champions-workshop-1) to develop Biennial Update Reports in April 2017 in Berlin.
• Launch of the Cluster website www.ndc-cluster.net.
• Joint implementation of the Global NDC Conference in May 2017 in Berlin with the Low Emission Capacity Building Programme of the United Nations Development Programme LEDS Global Partnership and in collaboration with the NDC Partnership (http://www.ndcconference2017.org)
• Presentation of the NDC cluster as part of a side event at COP22 at the Climate Conference in Marrakesh (COP 22), including the launch of the NDC Helpdesk (https://www.ndc-cluster.net/helpdesk) of the NDC Cluster.