Indo-German Support project for Climate Action in India

State of implementation/results

• The project supports the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) with the coordination and implementation of India’s climate and biodiversity policies. It aims to strengthen the capacities of selected decision-makers at the national and state levels to develop innovative approaches for the implementation of India’s National Determined Contributions (NDCs) and far-reaching climate policy.
• The project focuses on developing methodologies for accounting of climate co-benefits, measured in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions or sinks and adaptation impacts, for development programmes of the Government of India that do not have a specific climate focus.
• With the Government of India, methodologies to measure and report climate adaptation, mitigation and biodiversity impacts are developed for India’s Single-Use Plastics ban, Urban Forestry schemes and Wetland Programmes.
• The methodologies can also be used by public and private sector companies for accounting of climate impacts and trading on carbon markets, thus accelerating investments in low-carbon pathways.
• The project cooperates with public sector enterprises in partnership with the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE). This partnership focuses on capacity-building measures to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors, green hydrogen, climate finance, and carbon markets.
• To decarbonise the cement sector in India, the project supports the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in conducting joint research between India and Germany on low-carbon cement. IIT Delhi supported JK Cement to achieve India’s first ever commercial production of low-carbon cement Limestone-Calcined-Clay-Cement (LC3), and one of the major real estate builders Lodha Group placed a commercial order to use the LC3 cement at one of its construction sites in Mumbai.
• With the support to decarbonise steel and cement sector, the project strengthens India’s contribution to the Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT).
• The project implements the IKI India interface function with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Under the Interface function the project represents IKI at various forums in India such as the World Sustainable Development Summit, organises the annual IKI India Networking Workshop, organises IKI India thematic workshops and IKI India community events, and runs the IKI India website for strengthening synergies among IKI India projects and with implementing partners.
• The project supports German Ministries in implementation of the new Indo-German Green and Sustainable Development Partnership (GSDP) and the multilateral Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).
• India’s peatland inventory and assessment initiative in collaboration with MoEFCC and Wetlands International South Asia with the goal to comprehensively map India’s potential peatland distribution, determine its carbon storage potential and identify priority areas for restoration.

Latest Update:
12/2025

Further links

• Video: IKI India Networking Workshop 2024