As a global leader, the EU continues to lead on international efforts, and in conjunction with our partners, we address environmental challenges and promote the implementation of ambitious climate, environment and energy policies across the world. Through bilateral efforts, we accompany partners to transition towards more sustainable development pathways.

The Green Deal is an integral part of this Commission’s strategy to implement the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Policy areas

Biodiversity and ecosystems

Climate change

Forests

Nuclear safety

Nutrition and food security

Oceans

Sustainable energy

Sustainable food systems

Transboundary water cooperation

Water, energy, food, and ecosystem nexus

Programmes

ECOFAC6: Preserving biodiversity and fragile ecosystems in Central Africa

ECOFAC6 promotes a green economy characterised by sustainable and inclusive economic development, as well as the fight against climate change.

NaturAfrica

The NaturAfrica initiative supports biodiversity conservation in Africa, taking an innovative, people-centred approach.

Partnerships for Sustainable Cities

This programme aims to strengthen urban governance by supporting social, environmental or economic sustainability.

SWITCH Africa Green

The SWITCH Africa Green programme aims to assist African countries with sustainable development, by encouraging a shift towards an inclusive green economy.

SWITCH Asia

SWITCH Asia promotes sustainable consumption and production.

Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+)

The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+) is a European Union flagship initiative which is helping the world's most vulnerable countries to address climate change.

Intra-ACP Climate Services Programme

The programme's objectives are to provide members and regions of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) innovative and collaborative solutions to manage climate-related risk considerations in their sustainable development policy, planning and practice decisions.

Euroclima+

The programme's objective is to reduce the impact of climate change and its effects in Latin America by fostering climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and investment.

AgriFI

AgriFI is a €120m impact investment facility funded by the European Union. It is designed to provide financing to businesses active in the agri-food value chain, with a focus on smallholder farmers.

Food Fortification Advisory Services (2FAS)

2FAS aims to support countries with their food fortification programmes, share knowledge on reducing micronutrient deficiencies and increase political commitment to food fortification at global and national levels.

Nutrition Research Facility

The facility aims to provide improved knowledge and evidence for policy and programme design, management, and monitoring and evaluation in order to reach better nutrition outcomes.

FISH4ACP

This programme aims to tackle some of the underlying challenges in building sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Latest news

News announcement
28 lipanj 2022

EU, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and the cocoa sector endorse an Alliance on Sustainable Cocoa

The EU, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and the cocoa sector have today agreed to step up work on making cocoa more sustainable.

Press release
19 svibanj 2022

Statement by Commissioners Stella Kyriakides and Jutta Urpilainen – Towards a new EU Global Health Strategy

Today, at the G7 Development and Health Ministerial, Commissioners Kyriakides and Urpilainen have announced the launch of the work on a new EU Global Health Strategy and are issuing the following statement.

News announcement
10 svibanj 2022

European Commission and EIB sign an Agreement to enable further investments worldwide

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed an ambitious Guarantee Agreement through which the European Commission will support up to €26.7 billion of EIB financial operations to enable crucial public investments.

More news

'New deal' for conservation rangers signals a critical step for the planet’s health

A group of international conservation organisations have formed the Universal Ranger Support Alliance (URSA) which will deliver a “new deal” for wildlife rangers including Global Welfare Standards and a Code of Conduct.

A mobile application helps African farmers manage and restore their land

A new mobile application is bringing farmers in Africa the science of monitoring land restoration. The Regreening Africa App is an EU- funded project, which helps farmers, government agents and project officers to collect data on land restoration.

Accelerating the transition from waste to energy with Sistema.bio

In May 2019, EU-funded ElectriFI, invested USD 2m in Sistema.bio to support the company’s rapid scale up in Latin America, East Africa, and South Asia.

Climate, environment and energy