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Work and services to be provided:
This assignment aims at assessing India"s circular economy and forest policies, initiatives, programmes etc. from the lens of the climate co-benefits they generate and develop methodologies to quantify these climate co-benefits. The methodologies are targeted to be utilised by government bodies, Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) and private sector organizations for accounting of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) mitigation impacts of activities that do not have a climate focus and are not accounted for. This shall support the fulfilment of the Indian Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as well as reporting to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and at the same time facilitate investments of public and private companies in low carbon technologies e. g. through internal carbon pricing and/or trading mitigation effects on carbon markets.
The contractor is responsible for the development of assessment frameworks and piloting methodologies for measuring climate co-benefits in the focus areas of circular economy (CE) and forestry. Based on that, the contractor shall develop roadmaps for using climate co-benefit methodologies for impacts of national schemes and programmes, including sector guidelines on how to calculate climate co-benefits. Finally, the contractor is responsible for conceptualizing training measures for climate action and climate co-benefit approaches in the focus areas.
The service consists of 9 work packages (WP):
WP 1: Inception & Workplan
WP 1 includes the preparation of a detailed workplan for the entire assignment.
WP 2 & WP 3: Development of an assessment framework for climate co-benefits with a focus on circular economy (WP 2) and a focus on Forestry (WP 3)
Work packages include:
- Definition of the climate co-benefits approach for both focus areas
- Preparing scoping studies on each focus area, including literature review/studies on initiatives of PSEs, the private sector, and the government of India
- Consultations and Focus Group Discussions with relevant political and private sector actors
- Preparation and finalisation of an assessment framework for assessing climate co-benefits in each focus area
- Support GIZ in adoption of the assessment framework by MoEFCC.
WP 4 & WP 5: Develop and pilot a climate co-benefit methodology, one each in the focus areas of circular economy (WP 4) and forestry (WP 5)
Work packages include:
- Scoping studies of existing methodologies for both focus areas on assessing climate co-benefit potentials for reporting under UNFCCC GHG mitigation reporting
- Consultations with relevant national, international agencies, private sector players
- Identification of key characteristics of the methodologies to be developed based on the baselines and key conclusions from the assessment framework and on the project objectives
- Identification of data sources
- Developing new modelling approaches or reconfiguration of existing methodologies relevant to the initiatives and policies in the focus areas
- Development and finalisation of a methodology, one each for the focus areas to assess climate co-benefits
- Showcasing the relevance of the final methodology for quantifying climate co-benefits of at least one policy/initiative/programme in each focus area
- Conduct Stakeholder meetings to promote potentials to quantify climate co-benefits for existing production lines and new investments in low carbon products, including the use of internal carbon pricing and trading on carbon markets
- Piloting of the methodologies in at least one policy/programme to be selected by MoEFCC in each focus area
WP 6 & WP 7: Develop roadmaps for using climate co-benefit methodologies for impacts of national schemes and programmes in the focus area of CE (WP 6) and Forestry (WP 7) including sector guidelines on how to calculate climate co-benefits
Work packages include
- Consultations with project partners to identify key government institutions, PSEs and private sector entities to apply and institutionalise the developed methodology for climate co-benefits in both focus areas
- Development and finalisation of draft roadmaps including draft sector guidelines on how to calculate climate co-benefits for selected schemes / initiatives / policies / programmes in each focus area and preparation of presentation for consultation with MoEFCC
- Supporting adoption and institutionalising the roadmap and sector guideline in the selected government institutions, PSEs and private sector organizations
- Identifying avenues for integrating the approaches developed in the Biennial Transparency Report reporting mechanism of UNFCCC
WP 8 & WP 9: Conceptualizing training measures for climate action and climate co-benefit approaches in the focus areas of CE (WP 8) and Forestry (WP 9), including topics like potentials of carbon markets and pricing for mitigation action
Work packages include
- Analysis of existing national trainings for PSEs and private sector companies/SMEs on climate action and co-benefit approaches in both focus areas
- Developing a questionnaire for training needs assessment of relevant stakeholders in both focus areas
- Developing of draft training modules for both focus areas in consultation with relevant stakeholders
- Finalising training modules and conduct regional training programs for all relevant stakeholders
- Digitalisation of training modules into online self-paced Massive Open Online courses and integration on relevant portals in consultation with stakeholders.
The assignment involves the provision of an international team leader, two international experts, one in the field of Climate Change mitigation and one in the field of Sustainability, two national experts, one with expertise in the field of Circular Economy and one in the field of Forestry, and four national junior-experts, two with expertise in the field of Circular Economy and two in the field of Forestry.