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Environmental degradation and climate change are undermining progress in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. The European Green Deal is the EU’s new flagship policy to achieve sustainable growth, the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Agreement. Mainstreaming environment and climate change in all areas of EU action is a central feature of the Green Deal. it is crucial that mainstreaming support covers all actions financed under the EU Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument and the related policy and programmatic work, as well as on-going programmes financed under the thematic and geographic financing instruments under the EU Multiannual Financing Framework (MFF) 2014-2020 (Development Cooperation Instrument, European Neighbourhood Instrument and European Development Fund). That’s why this evaluation was  significantly important. It provided a better understanding of how the current facility has contributed to the above mentioned overall high ambition as well as gave suggestions for further improvements in order to design a future cooperation that successfully contributes to the new EU’s objectives and targets (in particular, to allocate at least 35 % of EU funding under the 2021-2027 MFF to climate change related action, and to double external funding for biodiversity, in particular for the most vulnerable countries.