Projects

Climate-SDGs Integration Project: Supporting the Implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda Through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Completed

Project Lead: Alexander Mueller
01 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2021

The project supported the implementation of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in Guatemala and India to synergistically achieve Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Sustainable Development Go...
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Conservation Seagrass Ecosystems- Safeguarding Food Security and Resilience in Vulnerable Coastal Communities On-going

Project Lead: Yasmeen Telwala
01 Jan 2019 to 30 Apr 2025

Seagrass is an essential food source for dugongs and other marine wildlife and provides key ecosystem services (e.g. fisheries productivity and carbon sequestration). Seagrass ecosystems are declining...
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Decarbonising Transport in Emerging Economies Completed

01 Apr 2019 to 30 Sep 2024

Transportation accounts for a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions in emerging economies. Reducing these emissions will significantly contribute to reaching the Nationally Determined Contribu...
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Development and Management of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) Completed

Project Lead: Mohammed El-Khawad
01 Sep 2013 to 31 Aug 2020

The project supported the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) of India in developing two concepts for NAMAs, including the corresponding MRV systems. Both sectors (waste and fo...
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Development of National Framework for Electronic People's Biodiversity Registers in India On-going

Project Lead: Ravindra Singh
01 Oct 2023 to 30 Sep 2026

Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystems is crucial to meet the demands for food, medicine, fuel, and water, as well as to provide livelihood security. The project contributes to India’s growing eff...
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EcoLogistics: Low Carbon Freight for Sustainable Cities Completed

Project Lead: Sunandan Tiwari
01 Nov 2017 to 31 Dec 2022

Urban transport of goods and commodities is a significant source of greenhouse gases in Argentina, Colombia, and India. However, many cities do not adequately address this issue in their mitigation me...
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Enabling and Scaling up Market Adoption of Nature-Related Financial Disclosures On-going

01 Jan 2023 to 31 Jan 2029

According to the World Economic Forum, approximately $44 trillion of global economic output, representing around half of the global economy, is at moderate or significant exposure to nature-related ri...
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Energy Efficient Cooling On-going

Project Lead: Nitin Jain
01 Jul 2019 to 31 Dec 2025

The building cooling sector in India mainly uses decentralized individual systems that have high levels of energy consumption and use climate-damaging refrigerants. The government, working together wi...
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Energy Storage for Renewable Energy Integration in India (StoREin) On-going

Project Lead: Bernhard Voelcker
01 Sep 2022 to 31 Jul 2029

India aims to integrate a total of 500 gigawatts of non-fossil energy capacity by 2030. In support of this goal, the project is focused on creating favorable framework conditions for the introduction ...
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Ensuring the Transparency of Subnational Climate Change Mitigation Measures in Developing and Emerging Countries Completed

Project Lead: Sunandan Tiwari
01 Sep 2018 to 31 Oct 2022

MRV for transparency is a crucial foundation for policy-making within the framework of the Paris Agreement, extending to subnational levels. The first phase of the project supported state governments ...
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