Transcript USAID/India`s Climate Change Initiatives – Mitigation

USAID/India’s Climate Change
Initiatives – Mitigation and
Adaptation
USAID/India
June 18, 2015
Mitigation
Adaptation
Integration
Clean Energy
Sustainable
Landscapes
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History of USAID/India’s Energy Program
1965-1975
1975-1985
Capital
Infrastructure
Science and
Technology
1985-1990
Energy
Technology
Commercialization
1990-2000
Climate
Change
2001 -2012
Clean Coal,
Power Sector
Reform, and
Energy
Efficiency
Current Clean Energy programs in India
Thank You…
Clean Energy
Deployment
- Partnership to Advance
Clean Energy Deployment
(PACE-D) Technical
Assistance Program
- Greening the Grid (GtG)*
Off-Grid Energy
technologies and
solutions
- wPOWER
- SCALE
- *CLEAN
Water-energy nexus
- Water-AgricultureLivelihood Security in India
(WEALS)
Reduce GHG emissions from the power sector
PACE-D TA Program Snapshot
• 5-Year, USD 19.5 million PACE-D
Technical Assistance Program
• Program formally launched on
July 31, 2012
• Being implemented by Nexant
and a consortium of Indian and
U.S. partners.
• Three
components
program:
of
the
• Energy Efficiency
• Renewable Energy and
• Cleaner Fossil
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PACE-D Key Components
Energy Efficiency (EE)
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EE Technology
Deployment - Smart
Grids, Net Zero Energy
Buildings, Waste Heat
Utilization, Heating
Ventilation Air
Conditioning (HVAC).
Institutional development
and strengthening of
policy.
Design, develop and
implement innovative
financing mechanisms to
scale up investment in EE
projects and initiatives in
India.
Capacity building and
public outreach programs.
Renewable Energy (RE)
Cleaner Fossil Technologies
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Institutional development
and strengthening of policy
frameworks at the state
level.
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Provide support to two
Indian utilities in
improving heat rates in
power plant performance.
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Provide support for market
driven deployment of RE
technologies (i.e., REbased mini/micro grids).
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Design and develop the
concept of a Model Power
Plant and Service Provider
Network.
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Design, develop and
implement innovative
financing mechanisms to
scale up investment in RE
projects.
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Capacity building and
outreach program.
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Capacity building,
education and public
outreach.
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Partnership between U.S.
and Indian regulators.
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Microfinance Support.
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Karnataka
Haryana notifies
DSM Regulations
prepares
in State Gazette
BESCOM initiates solar roof-top program
RE
and EE policy
Forum of Regulators is
expected to approve the
Smart Grid
Regulations shortly
MNRE allots 5
MW to Indian Oil
for solar
BEE in process
of technically
rooftop
projects
updating
ECBC 2015
Indian RE Federation (IREF) establishes
Rajasthan ERC invites
public comments on Net
Metering Regulations
Clean fossil activities result in 68,000
MTCO2e emissions reductions through
Heat Rate Improvement
partnership with ACORE
Chandrapur
budgets USD 9.6
Energy Training Network million for Heat
NISE provides in-principle
approval to establish Solar
IH2PA established
More than 13,000 person-hours of training
provided across the clean energy spectrum
Rate
Improvement
activities
Current Sustainable Landscapes programs in India
• Partnership for Land Use Science (Forest-PLUS)
• Innovations for Forest Resources Management
(InFoRM)
• Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research
(PEER) Science
Forest-PLUS: Key Tasks
• Tools and techniques for
improved forest ecosystem
management
• Tools and techniques for forest
carbon inventory
• Improved governance and
institutional models
• Demonstration through REDD+
carbon credit projects
• Communication and outreach
activities
• Training programs
Forest-PLUS landscapes
• Tropical dry deciduous forests:
parts of Hoshangabad and Harda
districts, Madhya Pradesh
• Tropical moist deciduous/wet
evergreen/semi-evergreen
forests: part of Shimoga district,
Karnataka
• Moist temperate forests: parts of
Shimla and Kullu districts,
Himachal Pradesh
• Sub-tropical and moist temperate
forests: parts of East and South
districts, Sikkim
InFoRM: key areas of interventions
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You…
strengthening
supporting
innovations for
fuel wood
management
systems for
forest
resources
management
increasing
income of
forest
dependent
communities
Reducing Forest Degradation
Please contact Varghese Paul ([email protected]) for more information on
forestry initiatives
CLIMATE ADAPTATION CHALLENGES IN INDIA
• India is home to 900M people (1/7 world population).
• Breadbasket of South Asia - Dominated by rice-wheat, rice-rice,
rice cotton systems.
• Key constraints
o Climate induced monsoon variability & disasters - floods,
droughts, storms etc.
o High population density in vulnerable ecologies and coastal
ecosystem
o Variable Water availability
o Soil erosion/nutrient depletion
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Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)
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Partners: National Agricultural Research partners (NARS) and CG
centers including IRRI, CIMMYT, ILRI and IFPRI
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Objectives: Accelerated development and deployment of climate
resilient, sustainable cropping systems for rice, wheat and maize,
improved natural resources management, post harvest technologies;
and building partnerships with private sector for improving input
delivery
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Activities:
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Adaptive and participatory research and evaluation of conservation agriculture
technologies through the rural delivery hubs
Develop and disseminate climate-resilient rice, wheat and maize varieties
Expand the delivery hubs into eastern India- Bihar, Eastern UP and Orissa
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Target interventions and results
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Improving water use efficiencyLaser land levelling, Direct Seeded
Rice
Using shorter duration varieties &
more efficient planting
technologies- ZTW, Raised bed
Rice/wheat/Maize breeding to
select for climate resilient traitsSalinity, heat, flood and drought
tolerance
More than 138,882 ha have been brought under improved
technologies in Eastern India, where approximately 760,444
farmers have applied climate resilient technologies
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USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific Support to India
• USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific is a five year regional climate change
adaptation project
• Project assists India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD) and the Mysore Municipal Corporation to
access climate financing from the Global Adaptation Fund
• With USAID support, NABARD was able to access funding for three
projects in India– Conservation and management of coastal resources as a potential adaptation
strategy for sea level rise- Andhra Pradesh ($689,000)
– Building adaptive capacities of small inland fishers for climate resilience and livelihood
security- Madhya Pradesh ($1,790,500)
– Enhancing adaptive capacity and increasing resilience of small and marginal farmers
in Bankura and Purulia Districts of West Bengal ($ 2,510,854)
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THANK YOU