News and Events

04Jan
2023

GIZ -Dale Carnegie Leadership Training Module for Indian Forest Service Probationers at IGNFA Dehradun

The Indo-German Development Cooperation Project on “Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation” in India aims at providing technical support at the national level, and in selected partner states for effective implementation of human-wildlife conflict mitigation measures. In this regard, Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) and GIZ had entered into a Memorandum...

09Dec
2022

Idea competition: Initiative for Climate Smart Supply Chains (I4C)

[GIZ / Sven Schuppener] Agriculture is one of the sectors most exposed to the effects of climate change. At the same time, agricultural supply chains, especially the agricultural production of commodities, are a major cause of climate change. Unsustainable farming practices and the current structures of our global supply chains...

10Nov
2022

COP 27 PATPA’s events

During COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, PATPA has organized several side events and co-organized others with its several partners including: Tracking NDCs: understanding and explaining variations in GHG emissions, Nov 10th, 2022; 12:30-13:30, Watch the recording here Benefits and tools for implementing the Enhanced Transparency Framework, Nov 17th, 2022; 13:45-14:45, Watch...

10Nov
2022

The 27th Partnership Meeting of the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement (PATPA) took place in Sharm el-Sheikh

On November 10th, 2022, the Secretariat of the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement (PATPA) hosted its 27th Partnership Meeting on the side-lines of the COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. This year’s second Partnership Meeting brought together negotiators and practitioners from partner countries and international organizations to discuss the...

09Nov
2022

Side Event – ‘Capturing Climate Co-benefits of Wetlands’ at CoP14 to the Ramsar Convention held at Geneva, Switzerland

A glimpse of Ramsar CoP14 Side Events [©Avantika Bhaskar/GIZ] The International Climate Initiative (IKI) - BMUV project, ‘Wetlands Management for Biodiversity and Climate Protection’, organised a side event titled ‘Capturing Climate Co-benefits of Wetlands’, at Ramsar COP14 on 9th November 2022 in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and...

08Nov
2022

Trainings on Sustainable Practices for Cardamom Farmers in Kerala

Farmers attending FSA training program and discussion and group exercise with women farmers on importance of Biodiversity [©GIZ/Poonam Pandey] The cardamom plantation itself is a biodiversity-rich farm. However, the overuse of agrochemicals in recent decades has had negative impacts in the long term. Farmers are using huge amounts of pesticides...

27Oct
2022

Turning tides in the Philippines

One of the 22 MRFs rehabilitated by the project (before the project) [Katherine C. Viñegas] The Philippines is the third largest contributor of mismanaged plastic waste into the ocean, with 0.28 to 0.75 million tons annually. (Jambeck et. al. 2015). Much of these plastic wastes entering the ocean is attributed...

27Oct
2022

Sustainability is promising when your partners buy in!

The measures, knowledge and tools developed and implemented by the Coffee+ project have been sustained through enablement of each relevant partners and farmers from various government and non-government sectors in delivering the mutual goal. The mechanisms include institutionalisation, collaboration, and capacity development. Improving smallholder coffee farming systems in Southeast Asia...

27Oct
2022

Making Agriculture Climate Smart: Integrating finance with scaling-up climate-resilient technologies from small holder perspective in India

Farmers and users at workshops sharing their experiences of using few of the presented climate-resilient solutions [GIZ] Under the Indo-German Cooperation CAFRI-NABARD project, GIZ India and Sa-Dhan Association (an association of Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs)) have joined hands with the core objective of getting the financial institutions build up financial...