Climate Diplomacy Action Programme (CDAP)

The Climate Diplomacy Action Programme supports the Federal Foreign Office (AA) in the implementation of German foreign climate policy and accompanies Germany's climate policy cooperation with its partner countries. In doing so, the so called "IKI framework project for climate foreign policy" is guided by the AA's current priorities in international climate policy as well as the requirements of the partner countries and implements regional and bilateral measures in selected thematic areas, such as climate protection, loss and damage, resilience, adaptation to the consequences of climate change, energy, agricultural and food systems, water management, climate diplomacy, climate financing, climate and security. The project takes into account the principles of just transition, feminist foreign policy and the international debate on loss and damage, as well as the horizontal linkages between the thematic areas, such as climate and security or climate and energy.

Project data

Countries: Canada, China, Kenya, Moldova, Philippines, Viet Nam, United States, Türkiye, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fiji, Georgia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, Kosovo, Colombia, South Africa, Brazil
IKI funding: 30,000,000.00 €
Duration: 04/2023 till 09/2027
Status: open
Implementing organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Political Partner: Diverse climate change relevant institutions in the respective partner countries/Diverse klimarelevante Institutionen in den entsprechenden Partnerländern

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State of implementation/results

15 young climate activists from seven countries were given the opportunity to take part in COP29 in Baku and thus gain experience in UNFCCC processes and contribute their concerns to the discussion process.
The Climate Diplomacy Action Programme supports the APRA (Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa) initiative, which promotes the expansion of renewable energies in Africa. Among other things, CDAP supported the preparation of the APRA Investment Forum in October 2024 in Nairobi, which facilitated the networking of specific energy projects with potential investors. The forum presented a project pipeline worth USD 2.6 billion. Networking with the private sector was also supported at dialogues on the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogues (BETD) and the African Energy Forum in March 2025.
Support for the German-Chinese Track II dialogue (T2D) on climate change and sustainable development: delegation trips, plenary meetings in China and Germany (Shanghai in May 2024, Potsdam in October 2024, and Chengdu in April 2025), support for thematic working groups with other implementation partners and organisation of side events in the German pavilion at COP28 and in the Chinese pavilion at COP29. Pavilion at COP29 with the Chinese Vice Minister of the Environment Zhao Yingmin and the Chinese Special Envoy for Climate Change Liu Zingmin. Special Envoy for Climate Change Liu Zhenmin and Jennifer Morgan, former State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Policy at the Federal Foreign Office.
Supporting the Federal Foreign Office in the organisation of the Partnership Trust Fund of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) to promote financing mechanisms for the coal phase-out in the region.
Publication of a flagship report on upscaling green guarantees as derisking instruments for investments for the energy transition as part of the Green Guarantee Group (GGG).

Latest Update:
12/2025