For India to meet its long-term energy security, climate change and electrification goals, coordination and motivation among various ministries and departments will be crucial. The regular revision cycle of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) offers the opportunity to bring together private and public stakeholders (led by NITI Aayog) to jointly discuss and agree on ways forward to decarbonize the sector. This program is working on the following outputs:
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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:
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.