German Society for International Cooperation GIZ GmbH Tender Result

The Indo-German support project for Climate Action in India supports the Indian Ministry of Environment Forest 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 mitigation of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions or sinks, for programmes of the Government of India that do not have a specific climate focus. Climate Co-Benefits refer to programs or actions that do not have a climate focus but target other areas, e.g., programs dedicated primarily to support resource efficiency, forest policies, agriculture, water security, the job market, etc. These programs do not assess and account their potential climate co-benefits contributing to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation. The unmeasured climate impact has therefore no influence on the economic efficiency of a measure and private actors are not expected to take it into account. As a result, there is a lack of information that jeopardizes the fulfilment of the Indian NDCs and makes reporting under the UNFCCC inaccurate. The development of methodologies to account climate co-benefits aims to address the knowledge gap, so that mitigation and adaptation impacts can be reported to support India"s NDC commitments and the Paris Agreement. At the same time, climate co-benefit methodologies can be used by public and private sector companies for accounting and trading of positive climate impacts of their activities on international and national carbon markets, thus accelerating investments in low carbon pathways. Aligned to priorities of the MoEFCC, project activities focus on the two areas circular economy/resource efficiency and forests/biodiversity. In particular, the project is aiming on intense support for public and private sector enterprises including the umbrella organisation Standing Committee of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). The SCOPE members include giant state enterprises for coal, gas, steel, oil and are responsible for 87% of India"s GHG emissions and thus, have huge mitigation potentials.