India
01 November 2015 - 31 May 2019
India
30 April 2013 - 30 March 2019
India
16 April 2014 - 14 September 2018
As part of the BMU Global project: ‘Support of the Export Initiative for Environmental Technologies’ (ExI), the module Management of Organic Waste in India (MOWI) creates specific framework conditions for a demand for innovative technologies and ensures that sustainable structures are in place.
With a focus on integrated waste management, the MOWI module to improve sustainable organic waste management practices in the selected cities of Kanpur, Kochi, and Port Blair, their respective states, and at the national level. This includes centralised and decentralised systems of organic waste management like aerobic composting and biological methanation. MOWI interventions address issues of waste separation, quality control of compost, testing and linkage with marketing in urban and peri-urban areas, capacity building, development of guidelines and policy review, among others.
The implemented measures in this module are envisaged as an accompanying measure to the project “Cities Combating Plastic Entering the Marine Environment”, a bilateral project promoted by the BMU.
Municipal Corporation, State and City officials, related industries, General public, Training Institutes
India
14 December 2020 - 31 March 2023
“Public agencies of the Indian government have strengthened their strategic and operational governance structures to effectively combat water pollution from industrial wastewater.”
The project works in close association with Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) as its main implementing partner in New Delhi. At the state level, the project is active in Uttarakhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
The primary partners at state level include:
Growth in the industrial sector is one of the key aspects that affect the development of a country. The Indian government is aiming for industrial growth rates of 12% to 14% and has the vision of increasing the manufacturing industry’s contribution to the country’s gross domestic product to 25 % by 2025 and creating 100 million jobs. Unfortunately, industrialisation in India, has so far been environmentally incompatible, taking place at the expense of the environment and biodiversity. Every year, several billion tons of solid waste and hazardous waste are generated that are not properly treated and disposed of.
In this dynamic environment, a key challenge is to achieve economic growth that benefits all citizens and does not compromise the environment. The extent to which India’s growth can be made environmentally compatible will be of crucial importance for the country’s sustainable development and for the global climate.
India
01 March 2019 - 28 February 2023
India
January 2021 - December 2023
India
October 2020 - September 2023
India
November 2020 - September 2023
Green Freight project aims to provide strategies and technical solutions to the decision-making agencies at the national, regional/local level to develop freight transport in India in a climate friendly and efficient manner and support the India’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Freight sector in India is inefficient and the logistics cost is estimated at 14% of the GDP, far higher than observed in most of the developed countries, stands at 10% of the GDP. Transportation and inventory costs account for more than 90 percent of logistics costs. With rising income levels, rapidly growing e-commerce sector and a projected GDP growth of 7 to 8%, the demand for goods movement is expected to reach 15.6 trillion tonne-km by 2050. As per 2021 estimates, 71% of goods are carried by road, 18% by railways and rest by pipeline, waterways and airways (NITI Aayog and RMI India). Trucks are the largest energy consumer, using an estimated 1.3 EJ in 2020, with over 70% of all energy used to transport freight and is the fastest growing segment in freight transport energy use, doubling since 2010 (International Transport Forum (ITF), 2021).
India is therefore faced with the challenge of disproportionately large traffic volumes and high energy consumption, making freight transport as one of the sectors with highest potential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other climate-relevant pollutants. The Green Freight project aims to support national and state-level partners in making the Indian freight and logistics sector climate-friendly and efficient, thereby contributing to the implementation of Indian NDCs.
The project advises the implementing partner Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), Govt. of India in setting up coordination and monitoring mechanisms for the National Logistics Policy, as well as relevant national authorities responsible for the freight sector in the development of climate-friendly standards and regulations. Measures for improved logistics management and the introduction of climate-friendly technologies will be implemented in selected regions. To ensure the sustainable implementation of national strategies and the measures tested, the competences of state level authorities, as well as private logistics companies will be strengthened. At the same time, the partners will be supported at national and state level in setting up monitoring systems for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
The project will undertake the following activities
The project will also undertake the following activities jointly with other projects in the Transport WG:
The project aims to benefit the following beneficiaries:
Know your carbon savings: Rail Green Points initiative by Indian Railways
On 1st April 2022, Indian Railways launched “Rail Green Point” (RGP) initiative i.e. it will issue certificate to its freight customers on carbon savings that they have done by using railways as a medium of transport. This is an effort to motivate freight customers to transport more goods by rail, by making them aware of how many carbon emissions they have saved by opting to transport by rail than by road.
Hence, whenever a customer registers a demand online for railway wagons, they will receive a pop-up message thanking them for choosing to transport by Indian Railways and receive details of the expected saving of carbon emissions, called RGP. The RGPs are printed on electronic Railway Receipts (RRs), an RGP account of the registered freight customers is maintained, customers also get an email informing them about the RGP’s they have earned, and they can also download monthly or annual RGP certificates which may be used in their annual reports. Since the launch of the initiative, the Indian Railways have reported a cumulative saving of 11.05 million tonnes CO2*.
The methodology used for calculating RGP saving is derived from the “Freight GreenhouseGas Calculator” developed by Logistics Division, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India under Indo-German development cooperation project ‘Climate Friendly Freight Transport in India (Green Freight).
*number calculated as on 24th August 2022.
Awareness Building and Push towards Railways as a Sustainable Mode
City Logistics Plan: An initiative by Centre and States to improve city freight efficiencies for ease of doing business and achieve net zero carbon emission targets by 2070
In the wake of national consultative meeting on Freight Smart Cities held on July 2nd, 2021, several states came ahead and expressed their interest to improve city freight efficiencies by preparation a City Logistics Plan*.
*The City Logistics Plan is envisaged as a strategic plan designed to adequately address the urban freight mobility needs of the city’s population and businesses and their surroundings so as to achieve an economic growth together with better quality of life and the environment. The exercise shall identify the main needs, plan and evaluate the possible solutions for urban freight and logistics in and around the city. To ensure city mobility needs are served as a whole, the plan after completion will be integrated with the city’s Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) and other logistics plans at the state and national level: the State Logistics Plan and the Gati Shakti National Master Plan.
The central government, under Ministry of Finance’s (MoF) Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment 2022-23 of Government of India [F. No. 44(1)/PF-S/2022-23(CAPEX)] has extended support to each state, by providing a financial assistance for developing the City Logistics Plans. With this step, a number of cities have showed willingness to participate in the initiative and develop the strategic plan in a more efficient and inclusive manner.
Central Government’s Support to States for Preparing City Logistics Plan
India
January 2019 - April 2024
India
October 2018 - September 2022
