Indo-German Support project for Climate Action in India

State of implementation/results

• The project supports the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) with the coordination and implementation of Indian climate and biodiversity policies, in particular India’s updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
• The project focuses on the development of methodologies for the accounting of climate co-benefits, measured in Green House Gas (GHG) emissions or sinks, for programmes of the Government of India that do not have a specific climate focus. Aligned with priorities of the MoEFCC, the methodologies will be developed in the focus areas of circular economy/resource efficiency and biodiversity/forests.
• The project started the process for developing climate co-benefits-based methodologies so that mitigation and adaptation impacts can be reported to support India’s NDC commitments and the Paris Agreement. Further, the methodologies can be used by public and private sector companies for accounting and trading on international and national carbon markets, thus accelerating investments in low carbon pathways.
• The project is cooperating with public sector enterprises including the umbrella organisation Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) as well as with the private sector and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). SCOPE members include giant state enterprises for coal, gas, steel, oil and are responsible for 87% of India’s GHG emissions.
• The project supported the public enterprise Northern Railway and the Varanasi Municipal Corporation to transform the Central Railway Station into a model Zero Waste station including a Closed loop model for wastewater treatment and the planting of a high-density urban forest (Miyawaki plantation), with all measures offering multiple climate co-benefits.
• To foster exchange between Indian and German companies, the project participated at the “Roundtable on Private Sector Cooperation potentials in India”, initiated by the Auslandshandelskammer (AHK) India together with the German Asia-Pacific Business Association (APA).
• The project implements the IKI India Interface function jointly with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Currently 43 IKI projects in India are aligned for networking and knowledge exchange to build and foster synergies of the IKI portfolio in India. A quarterly “IKI India & Climate Policy” Newsletter is published.
• The project supports German Ministries in implementation of the new Indo-German Green and Sustainable Development Partnership (GSDP), the multilateral Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) and the German support on request of the MoEFCC for India’s G20 presidency 2023. The project supported the public enterprise Northern Railway and the Varanasi Municipal Corporation to transform the Central Railway Station into a model Zero Waste station including a Closed loop model for wastewater treatment and the planting of a high-density urban forest (called Miyawaki plantation), with all measures offering multiple climate co-benefits.
• To foster exchange between Indian and German companies, the project participated and gave a presentation at the “Roundtable on Private Sector Cooperation potentials in India”, initiated by the Auslandshandelskammer (AHK) India together with the German Asia-Pacific Business Association (APA).
• The project includes the IKI India Interface function being jointly implemented by GIZ and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Latest Update:
06/2023