The EU4Climate Regional Project assists governments in the six Eastern Partnership countries to take action against climate change. All the partner countries participating in the project are parties to the UNFCCC, and their being Annex I or non-Annex I countries results in different reporting obligations, that parties have to fulfill. Therefore the projects supports their implementing the Paris Climate Agreement and improving climate policies and legislation - with an ambition of limiting climate change impact on citizens’ lives and making them more resilient to it.
The Report summarizes coutry characteristics, details on the Nationally Determined Contributions and presents several case studies. In the case of Armenia, the general conclusion is that the country has well-developed public finance budgeting systems, however, the identification of expenditures, budgeting and reporting of cross-sectoral policies, such as climate change, will require the development of new institutional mechanisms within the budgeting process, use of climate budget tagging, as well as improved inter-ministerial coordination.