Karine GENTY, Deputy Head of Unit for Sustainable Energy and Climate Change

1. Climate
Action in
Development
Karine GENTY, Deputy Head of Unit
for Sustainable Energy and Climate
Change
European Commission
Directorate-General for
International Cooperation and
Development

2. Global Vision
Inequalities and poverty are
exacerbated by climate
change effects - link to
security, conflict and
migration
UN 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
Paris Agreement on climate
change - 2015
G7 and G20 energy, climate
and development groups
SDG 7: universal access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy by 2030
SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate
change and its impacts

3. EU Response
Support to climate action spans over all sectors - climate
change mainstreaming
Particular focus on adaptation, resilience, disaster risk
reduction and renewable energy
Implementation of 2030 Agenda, Paris Agreement and
Energy Union - link Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs) and development strategies
Council Decision on Climate and Energy 2014
Council Conclusions on Energy Diplomacy 2015, Energy and
Development 2016
Council Conclusions on climate change 2016
Proposal for a new European Consensus for Development 2016
Council Conclusions on Implementing the EU Global Strategy -
EU climate and energy diplomacies 2017

4. Pillars of cooperation
 Political ownership, partnerships
 21 Joint Declarations on renewable energy
 Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI)
 Africa-EU Energy Partnership
 National/Regional Indicative Programmes 2014-
2020
 Covenant of Mayors for Sub-Saharan Africa
 Paris Agreement and 2030 Agenda implementation
(mainstreaming, GCCA+, EUROCLIMA+)
 Capacity building
 Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) to SE4ALL
 Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA+)
 Green Economy (Switch to Green, REDD+, FLEGT)
 Investments
 Blending facilities
 ElectriFI, AgriFI

5. Mainstreaming climate change
 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, AAAA, Paris
Agreement, Sendai Framework on DRR 2015-2020, New
Urban Agenda
Linkages between SDGs and NDCs implementation
 Proposal for a New European Consensus on
Development
Climate change cross-cutting (People, Planet,
Prosperity, Peace, Partnerships)
 20% general EU 2014-2020 budget should be spent on
climate action

6.  EU Flagship initiative for development and climate action
 Focus on LDCs and SIDs
 The GCCA+ Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) focus
on local governments including capacity building to access
climate funds
 Other related EU financed activities: UNDP LECB and NAMA Facility
The Global Climate Change Alliance +
http://www.gcca.eu/

7. Implementation of the EU Action Plan on
Sendai Framework on DRR 2015-2020
 ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
program together with the GFDRR/WB (EUR
105.5 million until 2020)
 Local level: resilience in 24 cities together
with UNISDR and UN-HABITAT (EUR 7.5
million until 2020)
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

8.  Develop enabling frameworks that ensure coherence between
economic and environment policies
 Improve MSMES business performance and compliance with
ENV standards
 Sustainable consumption patterns
 Improve access to finance for MSMEs in green projects
DEVCO cooperation on green economy
• SWITCH regional programmes (Asia,
Mediterranean, Africa): focus on the private
sector; capacity building, awareness and
networking activities; finances partnerships
between EU and third countries organisations
• Partnership for Action on Green Economy
(PAGE) and Green Economy Coalition
(GEC): support policy development through
technical assistance, stakeholders dialogue and
capacity building
http://www.switchtogreen.eu

9. Main DEVCO relevant
policies:
 FLEGT Action Plan
 Deforestation agenda –
sustainable supply chains
 Climate Change mitigation and
adaptation
 Biodiversity
Forests contribution to SDGs & policy
priorities
Energy:
 Fuelwood
 Sustainable energy for all
 EU renewable Directive (PCD)
Resilience:
 Water cycle
 Disaster Risk Reduction
 Livelihood for 1.1 bn people

10. Core targets: energy sector
 Contribute to energy access for 500 million people by 2030
 EUR 3.7 bn allocated to sustainable energy for 2014-2020
aiming at enabling access to 40 million people via 6.5 GW of
renewable energy, saving  15 million tCO2e/year
 EUR 2.7 bn in Sub-Saharan Africa aiming at enabling access to 30
million people via 5 GW of renewable energy, saving  11 million
tCO2e/year by 2020

11. Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI)
 EU strongly supports AREI objectives,
guiding principles and criteria
 EU commitment: EUR 1.5 billion to
support 5GW of new renewable energy
by 2020 (half AREI objective by 2020)
 Enhanced cooperation through existing
instruments: Ensuring country
ownership and local development
 19 AREI projects
 Expected generation capacity: 1.7 GW
 Indicative EU contribution: €300 million
 Potential investment: €4.8 billion
 Guinea, Nigeria, Benin, Niger, Chad,
Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and regional
(Central Africa, Indian Ocean Islands)

12. 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using
open fires and simple stoves burning biomass
(wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.
Over 4 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to the
household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels (WHO, 2016).
Energy: facts & figures
1.2 billion people without access to electricity
(IEA, 2016)
Energy poverty
Energy financing
Annual requirement for the period from 2010 to 2030 to achieve the universal
access to modern energy services and doubling the share of renewable energy in
the global mix :
• $50 billion for energy access (current spending is $9 billion)
• $442-650 billion for renewable energy (current baseline of $258 billion).
$560 billion for energy efficiency (current spending is $130 billion).
(SE4All Advisory Board’s Finance Committee Report on Scaling Up Finance for
Sustainable Energy Investments, 2015)
Climate change

13. Technical Assistance Facility
 Covers all partner countries, provides
high quality expertise and support in
terms of:
 policy advice
 capacity building
 identification of projects
 mobilisation of funding
 technology transfer
 Supports crucial regulatory and policy
reforms in partner countries' energy
sectors
 Assists in the fine-tuning of policies to
create a conducive environment for
private sector investments

14. The blending facilities

15. The blending facilities – Africa focus
Africa focus
15
EU Contribution
EUR 1.0BN
(EU-ITF EUR 0.7BN – AfIF EUR 0.3BN)
112 PROJECTS
(EU-ITF 96 – AfIF 16)
EFIs financing
EUR 3.8BN
(EU-ITF EUR 3.1BN – AfIF EUR 0.7BN)
Leverage: 3.8/1
Total investment
EUR 11.9BN
(EU-ITF EUR 9.6BN – AfIF EUR 3.3BN)
Leverage: 11.9/1
The EU
contribution
to 60
energy
projects
amounted
at EUR 525
mil

16. Investment facility to increase access to renewable energy (mainly decentralised)
with the private sector sharing high-risk in projects business plan with loans.
Ticket size: min. EUR 500k - max. EUR 10mln (Small- to medium-scale)
Product range: Equity, Quasi-equity, Debt and Development Finance
2016 1st Call > 290 applications received
 19 applications pre-selected (1 rejected, 5 cancelled, 4 preparing for
Clearance in Principle, 2 approved - Haiti, India)
2017 2nd Call > 155 applications received
 evaluation is ongoing (65 project host countries, business models - IPP
(state or municipal off-taker), Utility (Mini-/Micro-/Nano-Grids), SHS,
Captive Power - Private off-taker, Mobile power unit, telco tower)
The blending facilities
ElectriFI-FMO www.electrifi.eu

17. ElectriFI-FMO 1st Call

18. ElectriFI-FMO 2nd Call
Top Countries
India 13
Nigeria 12
Madagascar 11
Multi (Africa) 11
Tanzania 10
Uganda 7
Zambia/Kenya 6
Rwanda/Benin 5
Top Business Models
IPP (state or municipal off-taker) 47
Utility (Mini- / Micro- / Nano-Grids) 43
Equipment (Distribution of SHS) 29
Other services 19
Power (Captive Power - Private off-taker) 14
Mobile Power unit 2
Telco towers 1
Generation Capacity(unverified figure)
Proposed total installed MW in DC - as presented in the applications
3.806 MW
Proposed installed MW in DC per average applicant (82) - as presented in
the applications 46,41
Proposed installed MW in AC - as expressed in the applications
3.227
Proposed installed MW in AC per average applicant (92) - as presented in
the applications 35,08

19. E
I
P
Technical
assistance
• To help developing
bankable projects which
could be financed under
pillar 1
• To support activities aimed
at enhancing business
climate under pillar 3
2
Enhanced
Investment Climate
• Political and policy dialogue
for economic reforms
• Support legal, institutional
and regulatory frameworks
• Engaging with the private
sector
3
European Fund for
Sustainable
Development (EFSD)
Mobilising investments and
improving access to finance
EFSD Guarantee Fund
(especially for the private
sector – EFSD Guarantee)
Regional Investment
Platforms (Africa and the EU
Neighbourhood)
1
19
One-stop-shop / web portal
External Investment Plan
3 Pillars Structure

20. 20
Renewable energy high level business events
High level
Roundtable on
renewable
energy
investments in
Africa,
Brussels,
24 April 2017
1
Renewable
Energy
Investments
Opportunities
in Africa,
Rome,
27 April 2017
2
High level
panel on Africa
renewable
energy
initiative,
Brussels,
8 June 2017
3
Green
economy
forum,
Conakry,
October 2017
4
EU-Africa
summit,
Abidjan,
28 November
2017
5

21. THANK YOU
Please visit:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/energy
http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/topic/energy
http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/public-
environment-climate