The
Climate Change Centre, came into existence during 1997, with a view to
serve the specific purpose of addressing issues related to United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
The core business of the Climate Change Centre is categorised under
the following broad heads:
Core Business
The Climate Change Center's main objective is to make the industries
aware of the climate change issues and motivate them to take up
climate change mitigation projects. In this regard, the conducts
outreach and awareness programmes, provides technical assistance to
the industries for taking up climate change mitigation projects, and
carries out applied and operational research related to climate change
issue, climate change convention, Kyoto Protocol, CDM etc.
In addition to providing technical assistance to Indian industries,
the Centre carries out capacity building programmes for other South
Asian countries and provides technical assistance to industries in
South Asian countries for taking up climate change mitigation
projects.
Outreach and
Awareness
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Outreach and
awareness generation on issues related to climate change
conventions and protocol through roundtables, conferences and
workshops |
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Issue based
discussions |
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Contributions in
national and international publications |
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Web based outreach
and interactive CDs |
Facilitating the
Industries
In view of the capacity building requirements on climate change issues
from a wide range of stakeholders, the Climate Change Centre provides
following services to its clients:
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Clearing House |
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Database on expertise |
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Database on technologies |
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Servicing information needs of host and investor country parties |
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Brokerage |
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Identification of partners and technologies |
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Providing linkages to reduce transaction costs |
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Assisting in negotiations |
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Advisory Services |
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Project
formulation |
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Approval process |
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Capacity Building |
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Training |
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Institutional design |
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Networking |
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Networking with various national AIJ/CDM partners, NGOs,
business sectors, industries in the developed as well as
developing countries |
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Certification |
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Eligibility of projects |
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Emission reductions |
Research &
Knowledge Creation
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research on issue related to climate change, framework
convention and protocol |
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Impact Assessment of
Climate Change |
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Mitigation Measures
in Different Sectors |
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Vulnerability
Assessment and Adaptation to Adverse Impacts of Climate Change |
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Operational research on |
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Development of
methodologies for development, approval, monitoring,
verification and certification of Climate Change Mitigation
Projects (CCMPs) |
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Sustainable
development through CCMPs, an important concern for
developing countries |
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Analysis and
documentation of worldwide experiences on various market based
mechanisms for climate change mitigation |
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Beneficiaries |
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The beneficiaries of Climate Change Centre activities are of two type
- one who can afford to pay and the other who can't, for the services
provided. The first category of clients are generally from the
industries and the second category of clients are farmers, community
etc. who need capacity building support for increasing their
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Our Major Achievements
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Generated large-scale awareness among different sections of
stakeholders that can be evinced in: |
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a proactive approach
of the Government of India on climate change and measures taken
to set up an enabling environment for implementation of GHG mitigation projects |
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the preparedness of
the Indian industries to extract benefits from climate change
deliberations. |
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Developed tools and techniques for development, validation, monitoring
and verification of climate change mitigation projects.
Developed a pipeline of climate change mitigation projects from the
small scale sector, particularly the renewable energy and energy
efficiency projects.
Established networks with various Indian and International financial
institutions.
Projects done with following partners:
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USAID, CIDA, CDM & JI Office Canada etc. |
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IISD, SEI Boston, IIED, NET, Pew Centre on Climate Change, Winrock
International etc. |
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PA Consulting Group,
The Louis Berger Group, Inc., Business Associations |
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CERUPT, BC Hydro, International Finance Corporation, WB PCF, STEM etc |
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MoEF, MNES etc. |
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