adelphi in India: sustainability consulting for climate action and resilience

The Indian government has been increasing their efforts at improving climate mitigation since the beginning of 2015. adelphi has been engaged for many years with the challenge of combining India’s rapid economic growth with sustainable resource management, developing solutions and implemen

With the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008, India had already developed a comprehensive strategy for dealing with the diverse effects of climate change. Eight sector-specific climate action and climate adaptation programmes were developed in total, which are aimed at encouraging and furthering solar energy and energy efficiency technologies, amongst others, or which provide for adaptation measures in the agricultural and water sectors. The Indian government announced the extension of the national action plan by four more programmes in January 2015. This will result in the future expansion of funding and support mechanisms for wind energy and the stepping up of relevant prevention measures for protecting human health. Furthermore, the Indian government has the goal of accelerating waste-to-energy production and significantly improving resource management and disaster prevention in coastal regions. adelphi has been supporting Indian decision-makers for many years in implementing these strategies. They are diverse in make-up, from policy, economic and finance institutions to small and medium-sized businesses.

Using its extensive systematic and technical expertise, adelphi advises them through various research and consulting projects in the fields of energy efficiency, sustainable water technologies, adaptation to climate change, renewable energies and waste management:

1. Energy efficiency

Projects:

» Regional Energy Efficiency Project (REEP) in South Asia

» Supporting an energy efficiency credit line for residential housing in India

» Supporting a credit line for energy efficiency measures in Indian MSMEs

» GIZ Planning Workshop REEP II

» Brief studies for energy efficiency in residential housing in India

» Preparatory studies for KfW’s 2nd Energy Efficiency Line of Credit with SIDBI

» IGEF Study on transferability of German promotional schemes for energy efficiency to India

Publications:

Alexeew, Johannes; Carolin Anders and Hina Zia 2015: Energy-efficient buildings – a business case for India? An analysis of incremental costs for four building projects of the Energy-Efficient Homes Programme. Berlin/New Delhi: adelphi/TERI.

2. Water

Projects:

» ECO-India: Innovative solutions for sustainable community-based water supply

Publications:

Chakrabarti, Ronjon; Martin Jekel, Pankaj Kumar Roy, Gourab Banerjee, Somnath Pal, Manisha Banik and Asis Mazumdar 2013: Sustainable Integrated Water Supply for Rural Communities. Conference paper for the 11th IWA Small Water & Waste Water Systems and Sludge Management Conference in Harbin, Nov. 2013. Berlin: adelphi.

Tänzler, Dennis; Lukas Rüttinger, Katherina Ziegenhagen and Gopalakrishna Murthy 2011: Water, Crisis and Climate Change in India: A Policy Brief. Berlin/Tirupati: adelphi.

3. Climate change and adaptation

Projects:

» Climate change adaptation in India (AdaptCap)

» Providing decision support on climate change adaptation measures to Indian SME

Publications:

Chakrabarti, Ronjon; Ni Luh Made Ashanapuri Hertz, Sibylle Kabisch, Alice Reil and Till Wolf 2015: Addressing Climate Change Impacts Through Community-Level Water Management. Case Studies from the South-Eastern Coastal Region of India. In: Shrestha, Sangam; Anil K. Anal, P. Abdul Salam and Michael van der Walk (eds.): Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty. Examples from Asia, Europe, Latin America and Australia. Heidelberg et al.: Springer, pp. 291-317.

Ashish Chaturvedi; Rachna Arora, Manjeet Singh Saluja, Heike Mewes, Ronjon Chakrabarti, Krishna Kumar and GGK Murthy 2013: Piloting Peoples' Climate Adaptation - Introducing the AdaptCap Project. New Delhi: GIZ.

Bollinger, Konstantin; Heike Mewes, Arne Janssen and Cosima Strasser 2012: Facing the Impacts of Climate Change – Indian MSMEs and Adaptation. New Dehli: GIZ.

4. Renewable Energies

Projects:

» Technical advisory for the implementation of a credit line for renewable energies in India

» Microfinance for small-scale renewables in Asia

5. Recycling

Projects:

» Establishing E-Waste channels in order to enhance environment friendly recycling

Publications:

Arora, Rachna; Ashish Chaturvedi, Frederik Eisinger and Cosima Strasser 2013: WEEE Recycle: Making India's informal electronic waste recycling sector formal. In: recovery 6/13, pp. 10-17.