12.A Supporting developing countries
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develoPPP.de was set up by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) over 20 years ago to foster the involvement of the private sector in areas where business opportunities and development policy initiatives overlap. To this end, BMZ offers financial and technical support for companies that want to do business or have already begun operating in developing and emerging-market countries.

With the adoption of the German Resource Efficiency Programme (Deutsches Ressourceneffizienzprogramms = ProgRess) in February 2012, Germany committed itself to objectives, guiding ideas and approaches for the protection of natural resources. The Federal Government is obliged to report to the German Parliament every four years on the development of resource efficiency in Germany and to update the Resource Efficiency Programme.

The innovation factory is a global partnership for promoting digital innovations for sustainable development. It was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in the year 2018. The innovation factory focuses on three different areas of action: Developing and evolving cross-regional cooperation networks for digital innovations, creating the conditions for global networking of cooperation networks and creating the conditions for developing digital innovations. The cooperation networks develop digital innovations for sustainable development and share ideas across regions.

The target of the funding programme is to support international partnerships in the areas of climate, environment and energy.
CLIENT II puts a spotlight on demand-oriented research and development collaborations with selected newly industrializing and developing countries with interesting markets for German suppliers of technology. The envisaged projects are to give an effective impetus to reduce environmental pollution in the partner countries, to use natural resources both wisely and economically, to supply safe, clean and affordable energy to all segments of the population, and to make advances in global climate protection and in the adaptation to climate change and natural hazards. 

The German Federal Government, represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the German confectionery industry, the German food trade and civil society have joined forces in the Forum Nachhaltiger Kakao e.V. (Forum Sustainable Cocoa). Together, as a so-called multi-stakeholder initiative, they pursue the goal of improving the living conditions of cocoa farmers and their families and increasing the cultivation and marketing of cocoa certified according to sustainability standards. By 2025, the share of cocoa certified according to sustainability standards, or independently verified to an equivalent standard, in confectionery sold in Germany should be 85%; the long-term goal is 100%. The members of the Forum are committed to this goal in close cooperation with the governments of the cocoa-producing countries. Currently (as of 2020), the share of cocoa certified according to sustainability standards or independently verified in confectionery sold in Germany by member companies of the Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry (BDSI) is now 77%. Among the members of the Forum Nachhaltiger Kakao, the figure is 83 %.