This guidance note provides an overview of the carbon financing market in the post-2012 context and provides guidance on how to access carbon finance. Also highlights good practices in low-carbon urban development.

This paper by Heinrich Boll Foundation articulates concrete proposals and puts forward ideas for devising smarter strategies that make engagement by civil society in international climate policy more effective.

Climate change has been on the global agenda for over 20 years, but international co-operation has shown mixed results. The collapse of negotiations at Copenhagen contributed to disillusionment in civil society and signaled a gradual retreat from engagement in international climate policy processes.

At COP 17 in Durban, the Parties called for new market mechanisms, and more broadly, “various approaches, including markets” to “achieve a net decrease and/or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions”.

The Government of Tamil Nadu has launched the Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy 2012 to promote harnessing of this renewable source to the maximum extent in order to ease the power situation in the State. It has been envisioned to add about 3000MW by the year 2015 under the Policy.