This paper from the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) explores how models of payment for environmental services (PES) programs could be applied in the context of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).

The latest report on Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) power, a renewable energy resource which has a significant potential for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. Explores the scale, potential and barriers of implementing CST in US, India, China and Middle East & North Africa.

This study puts forward proposals for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in various sectors, such as transport and accommodation. It also considers market mechanisms and innovative methods of financing the transformation towards a green economy and encourages new public-private-partnerships.

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) perceived it as a new and important window to take up CDM projects with programmatic approach, particularly pertaining to households, small enterprises and rural areas.