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Policy Brief: Climate Change Mitigation through Development Cooperation: Level, Distribution, Effectiveness and Impact of Climate Policy Interventions

  • Dr Thomas Wencker
  • Kevin Moull

In 2015, the international community set itself ambitious targets for climate change mitigation in the 2030 Agenda, its Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Agreement. The most important of these targets is limiting the global temperature increase to well below 2 °C and, if possible, below 1.5 °C compared to pre-industrial times. The German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) has examined the relevance, effectiveness and impact of mitigation-relevant Development Cooperation by the German Federal Ministry (BMZ) and the donor community of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as well as identified the prerequisites for evaluating its efficiency. This policy brief presents key findings and recommendations of this evaluation study.

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  • Wencker T. and K. Moull (2025), Climate Change Mitigation through Development Cooperation: Level, distribution, effectiveness and impact of climate policy interventions, DEval Policy Brief 2/2025, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
 Accessible Instruments and structures of development cooperation Ecology and Climate Policy Briefs

Policy Brief: Klimaschutz durch Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Finanzvolumen, Verteilung und Wirksamkeit klimapolitischer Maßnahmen

  • Dr Thomas Wencker
  • Kevin Moull

Die internationale Gemeinschaft hat sich 2015 mit der Agenda 2030 für nachhaltige Entwicklung und dem Übereinkommen von Paris ehrgeizige Klimaschutzziele gesetzt. Am wichtigsten ist die Begrenzung des globalen Temperaturanstiegs auf deutlich unter 2°C und möglichst unter 1,5°C im Vergleich zur vorindustriellen Zeit. Das Deutsche Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval) hat die Relevanz und die Wirksamkeit minderungsrelevanter Entwicklungszusammenarbeit des BMZ, Deutschlands und der Gebergemeinschaft der Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD) untersucht sowie Voraussetzungen einer Effizienzbewertung herausgearbeitet. Die Ergebnisse und Empfehlungen dieser Evaluierung werden in diesem Policy Brief zusammengefasst und analysiert. 

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  • Wencker T. und K. Moull (2025), Klimaschutz durch Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Finanzvolumen, Verteilung und Wirksamkeit klimapolitischer Maßnahmen, DEval Policy Brief 2/2025, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.
 Accessible Instruments and structures of development cooperation Ecology and Climate Policy Briefs

Policy Brief: Targets without Traction? Do Nationally Determined Contributions Fail to Drive Mitigation Funding Distribution

  • Dr Thomas Wencker
  • Dr Ruth Carlitz

Given the urgency of climate action, support to developing countries must meet their needs. This brief presents key results from a DEval evaluation on climate change mitigation through development cooperation and a corresponding scientific study conducted with the University of Amsterdam.

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  • Wencker T. and R. Carlitz (2024), Targets without Traction? Do Nationally Determined Contributions Fail to Drive Mitigation Funding Distribution, DEval Policy Brief 4/2024, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
 Accessible Instruments and structures of development cooperation Ecology and Climate Policy Briefs

Climate Change Mitigation through Development Cooperation. Contribution of German Development Cooperation to Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Developing Countries

  • Dr Thomas Wencker
  • Georg Kühltau
  • Dr Isabel Mank
  • Kevin Moull

An effective contribution of development cooperation to climate protection in the countries of the global South is becoming increasingly relevant in view of the growing climate crisis. In order to provide decision-makers in German development cooperation, but also in other donor countries, with relevant orientation knowledge, DEval has conducted a macro-quantitative study in the field of climate change mitigation, thus building on its work in the field of climate adaptation. This evaluation presents evidence on climate policy interventions by the BMZ, Germany and the OECD donor community.

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  • Wencker, T., G. Kühltau, I. Mank and K. Moull (2024), Climate Change Mitigation through Development Cooperation. Contribution of German Development Cooperation to Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Developing Countries, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
 Accessible Instruments and structures of development cooperation Ecology and Climate Supraregional Reports

Die Schutzgebietsförderung durch das BMZ

  • Anna Sting
  • Dr Kim Lücking
  • Dr Marie-Sophie Heinelt
  • Carolin Wicke
  • Alina Dausendschön

Die vorliegende Evaluierung untersucht die Maßnahmen der deutschen bilateralen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) in Schutzgebieten. Das BMZ verfolgt bei der Schutzgebietsförderung zwei übergeordnete Ziele: den Erhalt der globalen Biodiversität und die Sicherung nachhaltiger Einkommen für die lokale Bevölkerung. Die Förderung bewegt sich daher in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Schutz- und Nutzungsinteressen, die miteinander in Einklang gebracht werden sollen.

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  • Sting, A., K. Lücking, M. Heinelt, C. Wicke und A. Dausendschön (2024), Die Schutzgebietsförderung durch das BMZ, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Bonn.
 Accessible  Easy Language Instruments and structures of development cooperation Ecology and Climate Sustainability Human Rights and Governance Supraregional Reports

Access to (Green) Energy in Rural Africa

  • Dr Mascha Rauschenbach
  • Alexandra Köngeter
  • Kevin Moull
  • Anna Warnholz

This evaluation analyses the contribution of German development cooperation to energy access in rural Africa. The aim of the report is to assess the relevance of the BMZ's energy portfolio in Africa; it also examines the effectiveness, impact, sustainability and coherence of interventions for rural energy access via off-grid approaches. A portfolio analysis and content analysis of intervention documents were carried out and literature reviews were prepared. Case studies in Benin, Senegal and Uganda – with quasi-experimental surveys, focus-group discussions and interviews – complete the methodological design.

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Bibliographical information

  • Rauschenbach, M., A. Köngeter, K. Moull and A. Warnholz (2024), Access to (Green) Energy in Rural Africa, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Bonn.
 Accessible Ecology and Climate Instruments and structures of development cooperation Africa Reports
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