1. 1 EU ongoing activities and financial assistance on environment to CA countries Almaty, 11 June 2014 European Union-Central Asia 3d meeting of the Working Group on Environmental Governance and Climate Change

2. 2 EU Regional Environmental Programme for Central Asia EURECA Regional coordination and support for the EU – CA enhanced Regional cooperation on Environment and Water: WECOOP Forest and biodiversity governance, including environmental monitoring: FLERMONECA Partnership of water management and basin organizations in Central Asia: WMBOCA Environmental awareness raising: AWARE

3. 3 FLERMONECA: Regional cooperation and partnership with Europe in the fields of forest and biodiversity governance, including environmental monitoring Duration: April 2013 – October 2015 1.FLEG focusing on Forest Governance 2.ERCA (ecological restoration and biodiversity) 3.MONECA on environmental monitoring. Implementing partners: GIZ, Hessen Forst, Austrian Environment Agency UBA and CAREC

4. 4 WMBOCA: Water Management and Basin Organisations in Central Asia 1. Support to water management and strengthening transboundary river basin administrations in Central Asia 2. Capacity building on river basin planning for water management organisations and joint river basin structures Period of Implementation: January 2012 – July 2014 Co-funded by the German Federal Foreign Office Implemented by GIZ and CAREC

5. 5 WMBOCA: Organising processes of the basin planning Development of the basin plan based on establishment of the working groups (on the basis of local expertise and stakeholder involvement) Support to develop legal and institutional framework for basin management Applying of modern world best practices and international expertise

6. 6 AWARE: Targeted Awareness Raising for Enhanced EU-CA Partnership 1.Increasing awareness on return and reused water addressing gaps in water resources management; 2.Enhancing opportunities for European Union –Central Asia cooperation on environmental governance through increased awareness on the most compatible and applicable practices such as Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS); 3.Ensuring the private sector involvement by raising awareness on sustainable consumption and production (SPC) and energy efficiency (EE) as the gateway for Public- Private Partnership. Period of Implementation: January 2013 – July 2014 Implemented by CAREC

7. 7 Investment Facility for Central Asia IFCA The financing instruments available under the IFCA are investment co-financing in public infrastructure projects / loan guarantee cost financing / interest rate subsidy / technical assistance / risk capital operation. Some of the current IFCA actions: -KazSEFF (Kazakhstan Sustainable Energy Funding Facility) EIB/EBRD -KyrSEFF (Kyrgyz Sustainable Energy Funding Facility), EBRD -Sugd Energy Loss Reduction Project (Tajikistan), EIB -KAZAGRO Climate Loan for SMEs and midcaps, EIB

8. 8 EU Regional Sustainable Energy Programme for Central Asia (CASEP) CASEP is assisting in the set-up of the necessary policy, regulatory and institutional mechanisms enabling the penetration of renewable energy sources in the energy mix of the beneficiary countries as well as increasing the energy efficiency at national level (as measured by the energy intensity of the national economies), notably through the introduction of new, efficient and ecologically safe power plants enabled by the development of renewable energy sources for electricity generation in accordance with each country priorities.

9. 9 Thank you for the attention! http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/kazakhstan/index_en.htm