ADEME’s international action to address climate change

About ADEMEThe French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) is active in the implementation of public policy in the areas of the environment, energy and sustainable development. The Agency provides expertise and advisory services to businesses, local authorities and communities, government bodies and the public at large, to enable them to establish and consolidate their environmental action. As part of this work ADEME helps finance projects, from research to implementation, in the areas of waste management, soil conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy, raw materials savings, air quality, noise abatement, circular economy transition and food wastage abatement.

ADEME is a public agency under the joint authority of the Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition and the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

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How ADEME intervenes at the international level

Contributions to climate negotiations and to the Global Climate Action Agenda ADEME participates in climate negotiations within the French delegation on the issue of technology transfer, acting as the French focal point for the Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN).

ADEME actively contributes to several international climate initiatives and coalitions: Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GABC): https://globalabc.org The ACT (Assessing low-Carbon Transition) project: http://actproject.net/ Mobilise Your City (MYC): http://mobiliseyourcity.net Mission Innovation: http://mission-innovation.net

The CoM SSA project to extend the Covenant of Mayors to sub-Saharan Africa: http://comssa.org/about/#

World Alliance for Efficient Solutions: http://alliance.solarimpulse.com

International Solar Alliance: http://isolaralliance.org/

Institutional cooperation with the EU and the OECD countriesIn the EU and the OECD countries, ADEME exchanges with its partners on long-term visions, policies and good practices for sustainable development. The Agency intervenes in bilateral frameworks with counterpart agencies as well as in networks such as the EnR, the IPEEC or the International Energy Agency (IEA). ADEME, together with foreign trade actors, fosters meetings between companies during thematic seminars.

Development of partnershipsInstitutional agreements between ADEME and counterpart organisations in the energy and environment sectors: AEME (Senegal), AMEE (Morocco), ANGED (Tunisia), ANME (Tunisia), APRUE (Algeria), China (Construction Commissions of the City of Wuhan and of the Jiangsu Province), CONUEE (Mexico), DENA (Germany), ECREEE (ECOWAS), EPE (Brazil), NEDO (Japan).

Agreement with the French Development Agency (AFD) for energy access in Africa and the promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency in emerging and developing countries (PEEB programme, CONUEE).

Support for decentralized cooperation between French and foreign local authorities to develop mitigation/adaptation projects as well as waste management through the « 1% waste » scheme.

Cooperation with the Institut de la Francophonie pour le Développement Durable (IFDD) for capacity building in French-speaking countries.

Support for innovative projects led by NGOs, companies, professional federations…

Support for green activity chains Club ADEME International supports some 100 French eco-companies that are developing innovative partnerships and projects at the international level (www.clubinternational.ademe.fr).

ADEME’s Programme « Investments for the Future » has enabled the launch of 715 innovative projects since 2010, of which nearly 300 are exclusively carried out by SMEs representing 2.5 billion Euros in support of innovation in low-carbon technologies and circular economy (www.ademe.fr).

The promotion of French know-how in clean technologies: collection of communication tools in the field of smart-grids, climate methodologies, waste management...

Dissemination of climate methodologies and tools ADEME promotes internationally the tools and methodologies developed and deployed in France, including the Territorial Climate Air Energy Plans (TCAEP, http://www.pcet-ademe.fr), and a GHG emissions assessment methodology (Bilan GES, http://www.bilans-ges.ademe.fr).

ADEME has developed an online database compiling all emission factors data for metropolitan France and overseas communities (Base Carbone, http://www.basecarbone.fr).

ADEME participates in the Green Embassy project to implement the Exemplary Administration Plan within the diplomatic network. The Plan aims to promote a sustainable development approach in the French sites of the Ministry abroad.

ADEME supports sustainable tourism by promoting the European eco-label and the ecolabel-toolbox at the international level.

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ADEME’s international climate actions

Pursuing the direction of its climate change action at the national level, ADEME is present in Europe and internationally and contributes to designing and implementing climate change strategies. The agency pursues

bilateral cooperation with counterpart agencies and participates in climate projects and alliances at the multilateral level. ADEME brings expertise, mobilises French know-how and provides support for access to financing,

in collaboration with local authorities, companies and NGOs.

THE MEDITERRANEAN REGIONCooperating for a successful energy and ecological transition

MEDENER (Mediterranean Association of the National Agencies for Energy Conservation)

Co-facilitation of the Union for the Mediterranean Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Platform.

Development of a 2040 scenario for the deployment of the energy transition in the Mediterranean region and establishment of a Regional Observatory for Energy Efficiency.

Development of regulatory frameworks, sectorial roadmaps and capacity building.

Mediterranean Climate Change Adaptation Awards.

Algeria Cooperation with the National

Agency for the Promotion and

Rationalization of Energy Use (APRUE), particularly on energy efficiency in buildings and training experts on energy audits.

Support for the establishment of a National Energy Observatory.

Morocco Cooperation with the Moroccan

Agency for Energy Efficiency (AMEE): support for the development of the first thermal Regulation for new constructions in Morocco (French Global Environment Facility project), partnerships with local authorities (Jiha Tinou programme) and support for the development of a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions assessment methodology for urban transport within the framework of the Mobilise Your City project.

D e ve l o p m e n t o f G H G emissions assessment tools and establishment of a national database of emission factors (“Base carbone”) with the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection.

Tunisia Cooperation with the National

Agency for Energy Management (ANME) in the fields of solar thermal (Qualisol Charter, e-learning training...) and energy efficiency (ACTE programme with local authorities, PIME network, funds for the energy transition...).

Cooperation with the National Waste Management Agency (ANGED) on household waste management (national plan for public awareness, local information).

EUROPE / OECDSharing visions and good practices for a low-carbon society

Europe C o n d u c t i n g i n t e r n a t i o n a l

benchmarking studies on climate and environment policies in the EU and the OECD countries.

Participation in European projects in relation with Community directives: concerted action for the Energy Efficiency Directive, development of public policies to calculate and reduce carbon footprints (Clim’Foot), ODYSSEE-MURE database on indicators and energy efficiency measures...

Member of EnR, a network of ADEME’s counterparts from 24 EU Member States or EU neighbouring countries providing expertise for the

development of European policies and legislations on energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Germany: collaboration with the German Energy Agency (DENA) on the energy transition; co-facilitation of a collaborative platform aimed at fostering partnerships among the industry sector, the financing of innovative projects and decentralized cooperation.

Japan Bilateral cooperation on behalf of the

Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition on the development of a low-carbon society, in particular on

modelling tools and energy demand forecasting.

Partnership with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) on innovation and low-carbon technologies roadmaps.

Korea Cooperation agreements with

the Korea Energy Agency (KEA) in particular on smart grids and with the Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) for the implementation of joint research projects.

ASIASupporting the development of sustainable cities

and efficient buildings

China Implementation of «sustai-

nable cities» approaches in support of three cooperation agreements between France and China on environmental protection, sustainable urban development and the fight against climate change.

Cooperation with the City of Wuhan and the Jiangsu Province for the thermal retrofitting of public buildings, the development of eco-neighbourhoods and urban renewal.

Indonesia Contribution to the coope-

ration agreement between France and Indonesia for the development of eco-neigh-bourhoods.

Support to pilot cities and development of public policy tools under the « Low-Car-bon EcoDistrict (LCED) » pro-gramme.

Vietnam Support to the Vietnamese

Ministry of Construction for pilot operations regarding low-carbon buildings and sustainable cities, contribu-ting to the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction.

India Support for the cooperation

agreements between France and India on energy, environ-ment and climate.

LATIN AMERICASupporting cooperation on climate /

energy methodologies

Brazil Support for national and regional

energy transition policies in collaboration with the Empresa de Pesquisas Energéticas (EPE).

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Support for the development of energy efficiency indicators in around

twenty countries in the framework of the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation (IPEEC).

Mexico Joint project with the French

Development Agency (AFD) and the National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy (CONUEE) to set up an energy efficiency monitoring system in the country.

AFRICASupporting energy efficiency and energy access

Cooperation with counterpart agencies and regional actors

In Senegal, cooperation with the Agency for Energy Saving and Management (AEME) and the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development on energy efficiency and the low-carbon transition in the building sector: bioclimatic buildings pilot projects (Dakar, Diamniadio, Sokone and Sandiara), Tyccao project for the production and use of biobased local materials; support to the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) for the implementation of the Regional Directive on Energy Efficiency in Buildings; support to the “Club-ER”, a network of African

rural electrification agencies, for the development of professional skills related to rural electrification.

Support for the implementation of innovative renewable energy projects in the context of energy access in collaboration with NGOs and the private sector

In Benin (cafés lumières), in Cameroon (support to the Network for Locally Elected Women of Africa: electrification of public buildings, street lighting, municipal governance with the International Association of French-speaking Mayors), in Congo (pico-hydro demonstration project), in Guinea (solar power plant, rural

electrification), in Madagascar (solar power plants, mini-grids and telephone payment systems), in Senegal (development of productive activities), and in Zambia (bio-waste methanisation project in Lusaka), as well as a project for the distribution of solar lamps in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.

Support for projects on local climate and energy planning

Technical assistance in the framework of the extension of the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa: capacity building in pilot cities for the development of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs).