Climate and Energy Response Facility (CERF) Ambition of CERF: The CERF aims to become the leading policy instrument for knowledge and capacity building projects supporting climate diplomacy. It is designed to be a ‘flexible facility with focus on mitigation’. Mission of CERF: The Climate <(>&<)> Energy Response Facility (CERF) supports countries with their climate and energy transition, raise climate mitigation ambitions and accelerate climate mitigation actions. Strategy of CERF: Support countries in raising mitigation ambitions and accelerate actions in a limited number high impact  (sector) niches where the Netherlands has an added value, creating coherence with the missions current focus in BH-OS priority through solving bottlenecks and accelerating opportunties. CERF outputs are policy advice, capacitation of stakeholders, knowledge services, connecting international (RVO) instruments and establishing (financial) partnerships.