Indo-German Support project for Climate Action in India

The Indian government is targeting an unconditional reduction in emissions by 33% to 35% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels, according to Indian NDC. The project supports theMinistry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) with the coordination and implementation of Indian climate and biodiversity policies. The project aims to strengthen capacities of selected decision makers at the national and state level to develop innovative approaches for implementation of India’s NDCs and climate policy. The project develops models for public-private sector collaboration implementing demonstration projects in selected states to establish a climate co-benefit roadmap. Aligned to priorities of the MoEFCC, project activities focus on two selected areas: circular economy and biodiversity. The project implements the interface function for IKI projects in India to foster synergies.

Project data

Countries: India
IKI funding: 10,000,000.00 €
Duration: 04/2021 till 03/2026
Status: open
Implementing organisation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Political Partner: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) - India
Implementing Partner: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - India

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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 decision-makers at the national and state levels to develop innovative approaches for the implementation of India’s National Determined Contributions and climate policy.
The project focuses on developing methodologies for accounting climate co-benefits, measured in climate mitigation 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 and mitigation impacts will be developed for India’s Single-Use Plastics ban, Urban Forestry schemes and wetland programmes. Methodology developments have started in the states of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
The project co-operates with public sector enterprises in partnership with the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises. 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 Delhi in joint research between India and Germany on low-carbon cement, encourages the adoption and scaling of low-carbon cement in India with the private sector and develops methods to assess climate co-benefits in the cement sector.
A Techno-Commercial Study for steel decarbonisation has been kicked off with the Steel Authority of India Limited (Government of India Enterprise) and is expected to be completed by July 2025.
With the support to decarbonise the steel and cement sector, the project strengthens India’s contribution to the Leadership Group for Industry Transition – a joint initiative of the Government of Sweden and India of which Germany is also a member.
The project implements the IKI India Interface function with The Energy and Resources Institute, representing IKI at forums like the World Sustainable Development Summit, organizing the annual IKI India Networking Workshop, and managing the IKI India website to enhance collaboration among IKI India projects and partners.
A multi-institutional partnership, provisionally named India Peatlands Group, to develop a peatlands programme in India under the supervision of MoEFCC is being established. Wetlands International South Asia and GIZ would be coordinating as the Secretariat for the Group with responsibility for knowledge exchange and identification of opportunities for collaborative research and actions on peatlands management.
The project supports German Ministries in the implementation of the new Indo-German Green and Sustainable Development Partnership, the multilateral Just Energy Transition Partnership and the German support on request of the MoEFCC for India’s G20 presidency 2023.

Latest Update:
12/2024