Today, during the COP28, Executive Vice President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič announced a Team Europe pledge of more than €20 billion for the Africa-EU Green Energy Initiative (AEGEI), an initiative launched during the 6th EU-AU Summit, in February 2022.

Today, during the COP28, Executive Vice President of the European Commission Maroš Šefčovič and representative of the President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a Forest Partnership with Honduras.

The European Commission adopted a new funding package worth €142.8 million to strengthen basic services and sustain livelihoods for Afghans, with a focus on vulnerable populations including displaced or displacement-affected people.

Today at the Cities and Regions for International Partnerships Forum 2023, co-organised by the European Commission and the Committee of Regions in Brussels, the EU highlighted the importance of a “territorial approach” to the Global Gateway strategy through decentralised cooperation and partnerships

Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen met today for the first time the new cohort of the Youth Sounding Board for EU International Partnerships, discussing expectations and the work ahead for 2023–2025.

The European Union alongside Secretary General of CARICOM (Caribbean Community), Carla Barnett, Honourable Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, Zulfikar Mustapha and Assistant Secretary-General of CARICOM Joseph Cox launched the regional food security programme for the Caribbean.

Today in the margins of the Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting in Brussels, European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen, and Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation Pilar Cancela, signed the EL PAcCTO 2.0 Programme.

In 2021–2022, during the first years of the new EU Gender Action Plan (GAP III), the European Union committed €22.4 billion to contribute to building a more gender-equal world, finds a joint mid-term report by the European Commission and the European External Action Service.

The EU and its Member States signed today a new Partnership Agreement with the Members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) that will serve as an overarching legal framework for their relations for the next twenty years.