Model Terms of Reference for a Country Environmental Profile

A Country Environmental Profile (CEP) provides an analysis of the country environment and climate change context covering:

• key environmental and climate related challenges and opportunities;
• the way these are addressed in national policies and strategies;
• an overview of how the EU and other international actors have been addressing these issues; and
• the implications for future EU support and policy dialogue.

The  primary objective  of a CEP is to inform the programming, policy dialogue and programme implementation process from an environmental and climate change perspective. In addition, a CEP is a valuable reference document that provides a broad insight into the environmental and climate-related challenges of the country that can be used to inform the policy dialogue and the context analysis during identification and formulation of interventions, as well as the development of investment pipelines.

Find more information in Annex 3 of the Greening EU International Cooperation Toolbox