Lessons learned for international climate policy from the programming, implementation, and monitoring of the European Structural and Investment Funds in EU Member States

The report aims to draw the lessons learned for international climate policy from the programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) in EU Member States. The report focuses on finance disbursed by these funds for energy efficiency. The report analyses two case study countries, Lithuania and Slovakia in detail, it also refers to Latvia and Czechia. Specific questions of this
report are: what are the key elements and features of programming and implementation of climate-related objectives by the ERDF and the CF, what changes and impacts have been achieved so far, which success and limitation factors have been observed, and which lessons learned could be drawn for the provision of international climate finance.