In particular, this evaluation will serve to provide the relevant European Commission services and the European External Action Service (EEAS) with an independent review of the programme with a view to inform the implementation as well as future programming enabling cooperation on this topic. The review of progress should focus on assessing the achieved and emerging results of the programme, in particular in the 5 specific EU policy areas targeted by this project, i.e. resource efficiency, circular economy, marine litter and plastics as well as green financing. This assessment should take place against the background of the relations between the EU and the G7/G20 country governments and civil societies. It should look for evidence of whether, why and how these results are linked to the project and seek to identify the factors driving or hindering progress. The coherence, complementarity and value added of the project should also be assessed.
The identification of key lessons and the production of recommendations will be particularly relevant as the project aims to develop EU environmental diplomacy by supporting and fostering the environmental agenda in the G7 and G20 discussions and by strengthening bilateral dialogues on environmental issues
and opening up new areas of cooperation. The evaluation should inform the planning of similar future EU interventions and Actions.
The main users of this evaluation will be:

• European Commission: FPI, DG ENV, DG CLIMA and EEAS, potentially other DGs (FISMA, MARE, CLIMA, SG)
• Policy makers responsible for environment-related issues (EU and in the partner G7/G20 countries

of the action)

• Environment, trade and industry counsellors in EU Delegations
• Implementing partners: GIZ, IEEP, Adelphi, Ecologic