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It indicates the greening measures/actions that should be taken, and the tools available. Although this section is common to all implementation modalities, greening opportunities specific to budget support and investments (blended finance and budgetary guarantees) are developed in sections 2.2 and 2.3 of this toolbox.
The greening of EU cooperation should be a driving force starting from the early stages of policy dialogue that informs multi-annual programming, through to the definition of priority areas and objectives for each programme, the identification and formulation of flagships, Team Europe Initiatives, investment pipelines, and individual actions and investments, their implementation and monitoring, and up to the evaluation phase.
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Figure 4. Overview of key greening entry points and tools in the intervention cycle
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• - Country/regional context analysis
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• - Definition of priority areas and objectives
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• • - Country/Regional Environmental Profile
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• - Environment & Climate risk screening (screening for SEA)
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• - Avoid excluded activities
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• - Maximise opportunities for transformational change
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• - Guarantee the ‘do no harm’ principle
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• - Set biodiversity and climate contribution targets
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• - For investments: screening of investment project pipelines
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• - Environment & climate risk screening
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• - Environment & climate screening of investment project pipelines
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• - Stakeholder consultations and dialogue; dialogue with FIs in case of investments
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• - Complete SEA, EIA and/or CRA (if and as relevant) to inform action design
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• - Develop specific greening objectives, measures and indicators
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• - Validate contributions to biodiversity and climate targets
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• - Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
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• - Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
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• - Climate Risk Assessment (CRA)
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• - Complete SEA, EIA and/or CRA (if and as relevant)
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• - Implement environment / Climate Risk Management Plan (if relevant)
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• • - Monitoring of green indicators
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• - For investments: review monitoring reports by FIs / participate in monitoring missions
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• - Environment Management Plan (EMP)
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• - Climate Risk Management Plan (CRMP)
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• - Lessons learnt on green alignment and contributions
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