Morocco and Germany co-chair new climate partnership programme

The German and Moroccan governments together with the World Resources Institute (WRI) have initiated a partnership programme to help developing countries create and implement their national climate plans to meet commitments made in Paris last year. “Any delay in implementing the Paris Climate Agreement pushes up the costs. That’s why we need to act now and support developing and emerging countries with their national plans,” said German economic cooperation and development minister Gerd Müller, according to a press release. The federal German government will pay for the establishment of the partnership secretariat and plans to align a large part of its climate financing with the new programme. Founding members include more than 40 industrialised or developing countries, as well as international organisations.

Read the press release by BMZ in German here.