The Indo-German support project for Climate Action in India (CAP) aims at quantifying the untapped climate potential of development policies and programs in India through a climate co-benefits approach. The project also develops models for public-private sector collaboration implementing demonstration projects in selected states to establish a climate co-benefit roadmap. The aim of the project is to strengthen capacities of selected decision makers at the national and state level to develop innovative approaches for implementation of India’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and far-reaching climate policy. Further, the project implements the interface function for IKI projects in India to foster synergies within the climate portfolio of German ministries in India and ensure knowledge management towards them. At the same time, it supports the climate and biodiversity dialogue between Germany and India in the context of the 2030 Agenda and the Indo-German Environmental Forum, in particular the joint working groups under this umbrella
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, in collaboration with GIZ India, is implementing the Indo-German Support Project for Climate Action in India (CAP). The initiative aims to develop and institutionalize methodologies that capture and report climate co-benefits—both mitigation and adaptation—in development programmes that currently do not explicitly account for these impacts. As part of this initiative, the project is supporting the development and demonstration of methodologies to assess climate co-benefits of two key policy areas:
1. The ban on single-use plastics
2. The urban forestry programme
The state of Tamil Nadu is one of the two pilot states selected under this initiative. The cities/regions of Chennai and Coimbatore are identified as the pilot cities in Tamil Nadu.
