India

India has a key role to play in mitigating global challenges related to climate change and transport sector will play a key role in achieving global development goals adopted in the 2030 Agenda  for Sustainable Development. At COP 26 in 2021, India announced new climate targets:

• Increasing non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030,
• Meeting 50% of India’s energy needs through renewable energy,
• Reducing the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now till 2030,
• Reducing the emission intensity of our economy to less than 45% by 2030, and
• India would become carbon neutral and achieve net zero emissions by the year 2070.
  These targets will have impact on India’s current and future transport policies, for example to enhance electric mobility and sustainable urban mobility.

GIZ supports the Indian government in reducing carbon emissions and tackling the issues related to air pollution, congestion and to promote decarbonisation of transport. The Nationally Determined Contribution – Transport Initiative for Asia (NDC-TIA) is a regional initiative funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). It is a joint project of seven organizations and with the engagement of China, India, and Vietnam. For India component, our partners are WRI, ICCT, ITF, Agora Verkehrswende and REN21. In India, NDC-TIA aims to mainly support multi-stakeholder dialogue about pathways towards decarbonising transport, improve greenhouse gas (GHG) and transport modelling capacities, support development of policies and technical standards to promote uptake of EV charging infrastructure and develop EV cost-benefit analysis tools among other key initiatives to decarbonise transport.  

Additionally, the Integrated and Sustainable Urban Transport Systems for Smart Cities (SMART-SUT) project as well as the Green Urban Mobility Partnership (GUMP), financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), focuses on development of efficient, low-cost and green mobility infrastructure in selected Indian cities. The GUMP partnership aims to boost ongoing technical and financial cooperation between both the countries by supporting expansion of public transport infrastructure, multimodal integration, zero-emission technologies and non-motorised transport.