[{"bbox": [134, 153, 1134, 417], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Technical assistance for the review, adaptation, adoption and implementation of legislative and strategic framework on environmental justice in alignment with international standards. This foundational work includes the creation of a comprehensive and agreed understanding on the respective roles and responsibilities of all governance/state institutions and a detailed functional and capacity assessment of the respective involved ministerial departments. Activities might include conducting a gap analysis between the national framework and the relevant international regulations and policies, conducting dedicated trainings on major ratified and non-ratified international agreements and conventions, and supporting relevant Parliamentary commissions with guidance on environmental law including on the revision and redrafting of elected environmental legislation for commercial dispute resolutions in environmental matters."}, {"bbox": [134, 418, 1134, 578], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Capacity strengthening of relevant justice institutions and line ministries for reviewing, streamlining and applying environmental justice procedures for ensuring a monitoring mechanism for compliance with regulations at local level. Activities might include specific upskilling programmes for legal practitioners on environmental justice to acquire technical tools to investigate, prosecute and adjudicate environmental cases in cooperation with authorities, and exchange programmes with relevant international institutions with strong experience on environmental justice."}, {"bbox": [134, 578, 1134, 791], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Fostering the role of Iraqi civil society, private sector media and public participation aiming to enhance transparency and accountability on the application of environmental justice. Concerning the private sector, activities might include information campaigns concerning rights responsibilities on environmental protection, enhancing legal compliance and on commercial trade dispute resolution. For civil society, media and the general public, activities might include implementing information campaigns with Parliament and selected committees on environmental justice, participating in the development, revision and redrafting of laws and policies related to environmental justice, and advocating for the adoption of relevant international environmental conventions in Iraq."}, {"bbox": [97, 815, 1130, 922], "category": "Text", "text": "The commitment of the EU's contribution to the Team Europe Initiatives (TEI) foreseen under this annual action plan will be complemented by other contributions from TEI participants. It is subject to the formal confirmation of each respective participant's meaningful contribution as early as possible. In the event that the TEIs and/or these contributions do not materialise, the EU action may continue outside a TEI framework."}, {"bbox": [86, 964, 312, 994], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.3 Mainstreaming"}, {"bbox": [97, 1007, 542, 1033], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Environmental Protection & Climate Change"}, {"bbox": [97, 1034, 1134, 1431], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action provides a direct response to the climate change challenges faced by Iraq by supporting green growth investment, enhancing the delivery of municipal services including water and sanitation management, and improving the transparency, accountability, and credibility of the judicial system with respect to environmental justice. The Action thus sets out to promote the development of a climate-resilient agri-food value chain sector, as well as climate resilient water supply, together with environmental justice. The support of the Action is focused on promoting sustainable climate-resilient farming methods, reforestation for the purpose of reducing the severity of drought/desertification and adopting harvesting techniques that reduce soil erosion and exposure to wildfires, and promote the conservation of biodiversity in order to safeguard forest ecosystems from the impacts of climate change. The Action focuses on improving the climate resilience of the water supply to ensure access and promoting energy-efficient water systems to reduce. Accordingly, the majority of the indicative actions qualify as principal Rio Marker objective. Additionally, improving the legislative and strategic framework on environmental justice in alignment with international standards is also an action that promotes adaptation and qualify as principal Rio Marker objective. At the same time, the Action supports the implementation of the external component of the European Green Deal, as they increase Iraq's resilience to climate change and contribute to ecosystem preservation."}, {"bbox": [97, 1456, 1134, 1512], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) screening** (relevant for budget support and strategic-level interventions): SEA screening concluded that no further action was required."}, {"bbox": [97, 1527, 1134, 1607], "category": "Text", "text": "**Outcomes of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) screening** (relevant for projects and/or specific interventions within a project): the EIA screening classified the action as Category C (no need for further assessment)."}, {"bbox": [1028, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 30"}]