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The project, “Developing Financing Strategies for Implementing the State Action Plans on Climate Change,” aims at developing strategies to raise funds in order to assist the Central and State Governments in India to implement the State Action Plans on Climate Change (SAPCC) in an effective and efficient manner.

India’s ambitious capacity addition programme in wind power generation could get derailed as a slackening demand in renewable electricity threatens to turn off investors.

Power distribution companies (discoms), which are supposed to anchor the demand for renewable power, are avoiding buying costly wind power because of their poor financial health. As a result, the wind power industry has been left in the doldrums.

Dim prospects for international finance makes imperative to rework Plan on climate change

India can cut agricultural emissions and subsidies by creating a market for farm offsets

ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia released this draft edition of the “India Community Protocol for Accounting & Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions” (India Community Protocol) to help Indian cities to measure and report GHG emissions using a more consistent protocol.

This new study released by the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR, and IIT Madras evaluates the design of the eight climate missions of the country as developed by individual ministries using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) of the Prime Minister’s Council.

Strengthening the resilience of flood-prone areas against flooding is an important part of the climate change strategy of the Government of India.

India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) released in 2008 outlines its strategy to meet the challenge of climate change. After the NAPCC was announced all States have been asked to prepare a state level action plan to deal with challenges of climate change.

The National Mission for Sustainable Habitat was approved by the Prime Minister's Council for Climate Change in June 2010. One of the deliverables of the Mission is the formulation of National Sustainable Habitat Standards.

This draft report by the sub-committee on urban transport proposes parameters for the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat (NMSH) . It specially addresses norms for parking and congestion charges, pedestrianization & cycling and the model regulations for integrating transport Planning with master plans.

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