Europeaid information note: The multilateral environmental agreemeents and the rio markers

Abstract:

Objectives, priorities and targets as regards environmental issues follow, at the global level, the three Rio Conventions signed in 1992: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Each convention contains specific articles on development aid.

The European Union and the other donors committed to actively support developing countries efforts to comply with these conventions.

"Rio Markers", similarly to DAC-codes, have been created to allow for a quick identification of projects contributing to one or several of the Conventions' objectives. The use of the Rio Markers is compulsory since 2008 – and, since 2009, encoding in CRIS is compulsory for every projects managed by EuropeAid.

The objective of this note is to present the criteria for "Rio-marking" projects – and the way to properly enter the markers under CRIS.

Project managers and geo-coordinators – responsible for CRIS encoding – are the main target for this note – but it is also designed for any person wiling to get a basic overview of the 3 Rio Conventions.