The Platform brings together private sector, academia and policy makers from Germany and India with the aim of increasing German investment in the RE sector in India. The cooperation takes place in dedicated working groups on solar, wind, battery storage, skills and research and development. Multilateral development banks and other relevant national and international institutions may be added on a needs-based approach. The aim is to increase private sector cooperation, German investment in India and the achievement of India's targets in the renewable sector (500 GW installed capacity of renewable energy by 2030).

The decarbonisation of freight transport and logistics is essential for India to meet its NDC commitments. The project facilitates a shift to low-emission long distance transport solutions, the transition to renewable energy in freight transport and the deployment of innovative green technologies. It delivers three outputs: an open knowledge exchange platform, capacity building for training institutions and the development of green strategies for freight and logistics.

Power generation and demand in India is increasing rapidly. This is leading to higher power losses and outages due to overloads in the grid. With financing in the form of a credit line to the Power Finance Corporation (PFC), electricity distribution companies in various states are modernising their electricity distribution networks in order to reduce losses - and thereby GHG emissions, facilitate the integration of renewable energies and ensure a secure supply.

The Indian Government is seeking to ensure that the needs of women and girls are given greater consideration in climate resilient urban services. The project supports women and girls in selected cities in benefiting from climate resilience in waste management and the circular economy, as well as from safe, green public spaces. The project implements demonstration projects which reduce waste, re-use raw materials or increase surface greening. The solutions can then also be applied in other Indian cities.

Urban transport infrastructure and gender equality are important issues for the Indian government. However, many women, girls and disadvantaged groups lack access to public transport. The project is developing transport planning that promotes inclusion in selected cities. It evaluates gender data and works with decision-makers to develop solutions for future-proof and gender-equitable mobility. The project supports improved transport planning and tried-and-tested mobility solutions, so that women, girls and marginalised groups are increasingly using affordable, needs-based and climate-friendly local transport.

India’s electricity system is rapidly shifting toward renewables, but variable generation from solar and wind creates stability challenges. The project supports smoother integration by promoting storage systems and demand-side flexibility. It advises national and state energy regulators, designs gender-sensitive capacity-building for officials, and pilots demonstration services for grid operators. Through policy reform and technical training, it helps adapt the power market.

India's goal is to achieve 500 gigawatts of renewable energy (RE) capacity by 2030. However, inadequate power grids, supply bottlenecks, and untapped solar and wind energy potential are slowing down expansion. The project support India in making progress toward achieving its RE goal. The project advises the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy on expanding rooftop photovoltaics and wind farms and modernizing old plants. It supports the improvement of local solar supply chains. It advises on reforms, grid expansion, digital tools for grid operators, and the promotion of women to combat the shortage of skilled workers.

Many people in India are affected by water shortages. This is specifically due to agriculture, which consumes almost 85 per cent of the water. The impacts of climate change pose an additional threat to rural development. The project supports India in implementing its water strategy, Water Vision 2047, more effectively by improving rural water security and climate adaptation. The project advises officials on developing and implementing local action plans to promote water security. In addition, it provides advice on how to better coordinate funding from governmental development programmes and non-governmental initiatives. The project helps to improve water supply for three million people in rural areas, manage 500 000 ha of land in a sustainable and climate-resilient way, and mobilize 60 Mio. EUR of Indian funds for the sector.

While fossil fuels can be replaced by cheaper renewable electricity in many industries, some cannot be electrified. In such cases, green hydrogen offers a low-emission alternative. The project draws on international experience to support framework conditions for green hydrogen in India. It develops studies for informed decision-making by companies.

Coal consumption in India is expected to decline sharply after 2035. Coal mine closures always have a significant impact on employees and other stakeholders. The main activities are the development and implementation of plans and the building of capacity for the sustainable closure of coal mines, following just transition principles. The project also promotes gender-equitable socio-economic development in the affected regions.

India and other countries face the ongoing risk of soil degradation, threatening food security and climate resilience. The “Soil Matters” project promotes soil-health and agroecological innovations to restore and protect land. It supports small and medium enterprises to develop sustainable business models, encourages policy incentives, and builds partnerships across government, private sector and communities.

With the FC module a loan of EUR 200 million will be made available to REC Ltd. The loan will be used to finance investments in the areas of solar energy, wind energy, storage, green hydrogen and biomass. The aim of the project is to support the expansion of renewable energies in India and thus contribute to an improved, climate-friendly power supply. This objective will be achieved by increasing the generation capacity of renewable energy and possibly by expanding grid-connected energy storage systems. In this way, the project contributes to achieving India's NDCs and to global climate protection. The target group of the Programme are private/public sector investors and developers. The indirect target group is the Indian population, which benefits from the increased supply of climate and environmentally friendly energy and improved reliability of energy supply.

As part of the programme, a loan totalling EUR 100 million (or USD equivalent) will be made available to the Bank of Baroda. This will be used to finance investments in the areas of solar energy, wind energy, storage, green hydrogen and biomass The aim of the project is to support the expansion of renewable energies in India and thus contribute to a climate-friendly electricity supply. This goal is to be achieved by increasing the generation capacity of renewable energies and possibly by expanding grid-connected energy storage systems. The project thus contributes to the achievement of India's NDCs and to global climate protection. The target group are private households, companies and electricity consumers in the public sector, who benefit from an improved and cost-effective electricity supply.

This promotional loan aims to increase the use of the sustainable, integrated and inclusive metro system in Bangalore. Bangalore, with a population of over 13 million, is one of the fastest growing cities in Asia and faces a significant increase in traffic. Key activities include the construction of new metro corridors with a total length of 75 km (14 km underground, 61 km above ground) and 61 stations. The project executing agency is Bangalore Metro Rail Corporate Limited.

Support and promotion of the project implementing agency REC Limited, especially in the ESMP area.

The FC thematic project is supported and secured as required by accompanying measures. The accompanying measure is intended in particular to strengthen the career development of REC employees, to enable them to improve their position in the company and to reconcile professional and private life. This will be reached through training, mentoring programmes and further measures. In addition, the accompanying measure supports the sustainable implementation of the thematic project by consulting on technical, social and environmental topics as required. This can be done, among other things, through studies, monitoring measures, or trainings.

The Fund supports triangular cooperation projects between Germany and India in Africa, Latin America and Asia that focus on climate action, renewable energy, gender equality, and digitalisation.

Under the project, loans will be made available to the State Bank of India in two phases to finance investments in the areas of solar energy, wind energy, storage, green hydrogen and biomass. The aim of the project is to support the expansion of renewable energies in India and thus contribute to an improved, climate-friendly power supply. This objective will be achieved by increasing the generation capacity of renewable energy and possibly by expanding grid-connected energy storage systems. In this way, the project contributes to achieving India's NDCs and to global climate protection. The target group is private households, companies and electricity consumers in the public sector, who benefit from an improved and cost-effective electricity supply.

Support and promotion of the project executing agency, State Bank of India, in particular by strengthening the professional development of female employees through training, mentoring programmes and further education.

Existing solar initiatives in agriculture often overlook women’s specific needs. Despite making up 80 per cent of the agricultural workforce, women still lack access to better livelihoods. The project supports rural women in usinge solar applications to secure their livelihoods and in reducing agricultural carbon emissions. The project advances gender-responsive solar energy adoption through data-informed policies, capacity development, and improved access to finance.

India’s agriculture faces rising climate risk and energy demands, creating opportunities to combine solar generation with crop production. The project promotes agrivoltaics to improve land use, strengthen farm incomes and support clean-energy goals. Working with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, International Water Management Institute and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, it advances pilot sites, develops business models and builds technical capacities so that agrivoltaic solutions can be scaled across diverse regions.

India’s forests and agroforestry systems are vital for livelihoods, but they remain vulnerable to climate risks and lack gender-responsive management approaches. The project helps improve institutional structures to integrate climate-resilient, gender-responsive approaches and supports communities in adopting sustainable livelihood practices.

India faces rising heatwave risks, affecting health, food security, and ecosystems. Despite efforts, managing these risks remains challenging. The project tackles gaps in heatwave management by supporting policy integration, fostering knowledge exchange, and promoting technical, financial, and community-based solutions, improving resilience among vulnerable groups.

India faces rising climate risks. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) helps rural communities cope with heat, floods, and drought through livelihood support. The project supports adaptive social protection through the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS in rural India to reach marginalized groups. The project trains NREGS staff, develops tools, and encourages dialogue among actors in social protection and climate adaptation.

India is working to decarbonise its economy and expand renewable energy (RE), but many states face challenges in planning and implementing energy policies. Institutional processes are often lacking, and stakeholder exchange is limited. The project supports in improving the conditions for adopting RE in selected Indian states. The project fosters market conditions for RE by co-designing tailored state programmes based on data analysis and stakeholder participation.

Strengthening of quality infrastructure to enable the safe, qualified and sustainability fixing of issues of photovoltaic systems and energy storages.

The Ganga and other Indian rivers experience various challenges due to climate change, pollution, urbanisation, and complex governance structures. The project supports improving integrated river basin management for the Ganga and other river basins, such as Brahmaputra. The project enhances institutional capacities, promotes climate resilient river management plans, shares knowledge, and provides secretariat functions to the India-EU Water Partnership under the India-EU Water Initiative.

Unique natural areas such as the Sundarbans - the largest contiguous mangrove area in the world - and numerous smaller, unconnected marine protected areas are crucial for the the biodiversity, productivity, and connectivity of the ecosystems in the Bay of Bengal. The project supports transboundary protected area management and sustainable use to reduce the existential risks for resource-dependent residents, especially women and youth, and strengthen their climate resilience.

High healthcare costs in India push millions into poverty each year. In response, the government-funded health insurance scheme AB PM-JAY offers health coverage to over 500 million families. The project supports health authorities to promote fair access to UHC and drive digital solutions." The project supports health authorities to promote fair access to UHC and drive digital solutions.

The transition to renewable energy requires green skills. Promoting skilling in India that is inclusive and internationally recognised is crucial for a future-ready workforce. The project supports in improving Technical and Vocational Education and Training and opportunities in green jobs, especially for women. The project supports cooperative vocational education by building capacities in green skills, improves structural frameworks for women and marginalised groups, adapts programmes to international and German standards and facilitates labour mobility.

Food systems offer major potential for climate resilience, nutrition and biodiversity, yet many policies remain fragmented. The project strengthens coherent agricultural and food-system policies that support sustainable, long-term transformation. It promotes cross-sector reforms linking farming with climate and nutrition goals, and works with governments, civil society and financial actors in partner countries, including India, to scale proven practices and align funding with system-wide change.

The aim of this project is to increase the climate resilience of selected cities and at the same time to achieve a quantitative and qualitative improvement in urban supply structures with regard to the provision of basic municipal services. In addition, a contribution will be made to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Vulnerable population groups and, in particular, the needs of women are given special consideration. The project executing agency is the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority.

The aim of this project is to increase the climate resilience of selected cities and at the same time to achieve a quantitative and qualitative improvement in urban supply structures with regard to the provision of basic municipal services. In addition, a contribution will be made to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The accompanying aeasure is intended to strengthen the capacities of the project executing agency Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, for example with regard to environmental and social sustainability issues during implementation.

India's urbanisation has resulted in a high volume of traffic, which has a negative impact on health, the environment and the global climate. The FC thematic approach with accompanying measure therefore supports India in developing sustainable mobility solutions. The target group is the entire population of the cities, who benefit from the positive effects on the environment, climate, health and economy. Project organisers are institutions or state-owned companies at municipal, state or national level.Under the programme Partnership for Green Urban Mobility II, KfW is financing the project Bengaluru Suburban Railway System.

India's urbanisation has resulted in a high volume of traffic, which has a negative impact on health, the environment and the global climate. The FC thematic approach Indo-German Partnership for Green Urban Mobility II with accompanying measure therefore supports India in developing sustainable mobility solutions, here through the construction of the Bangalore suburban railway. The target group is the entire population of the cities of Bangalore, who benefits from the positive impacts on the environment, climate, health and economy. Project organisers are institutions or state-owned companies at municipal, state or national level.

India's urbanisation has resulted in a high volume of traffic, which has a negative impact on health, the environment and the global climate. The FC thematic approach Indo-German Partnership for Green Urban Mobility I with accompanying measure therefore supports India in developing sustainable mobility solutions, here through the construction of the Bangalore suburban railway. The target group is the entire population of the cities of Bangalore, who benefits from the positive impacts on the environment, climate, health and economy. Project organisers are institutions or state-owned companies at municipal, state or national level.

The goal of the project is to contribute to a stable, reliable, and environmentally and climate-friendly energy supply in India through the support of Indian reform efforts in the energy distribution sector. In this context, the project contributes to the improvement of the financial viability, the service quality, and the environmental improvement in the power sector as well as to the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. The policy-based loan in co-financed with ADB.

The accompanying measure is to be made available to the project executing agency, the Ministry of Power, for the policy-based lending project Climate-friendly electricity supply. This will support expert assignments for consultancy services to monitor the implementation of the policy actions. In addition, the aim is to ensure environmental and social compatibility. The support provided by KfW and the ADB will be closely coordinated and harmonised.

India's urbanisation has resulted in a high volume of traffic, which has a negative impact on health, the environment and the global climate. The FC thematic approach with accompanying measure therefore supports India in developing sustainable mobility solutions. The target group is the entire population of the cities, who benefit from the positive effects on the environment, climate, health and economy. Project organisers are institutions or state-owned companies at municipal, state or national level. Under the programme "Indo-German Partnership for Green Urban Mobility I", KfW is financing the project "Bengaluru Suburban Railway System".

India's urbanisation has resulted in a high volume of traffic, which has a negative impact on health, the environment and the global climate. This promotional loan therefore supports India in developing sustainable mobility solutions, here through the construction of the Bangalore suburban railway, which includes the construction of 149 kilometers of tracks, 58 stations and 2 depots. The target group is the entire population of Bangalore, who benefits from the positive impacts on the environment, climate, health and economy.

The objective of the FC measure is to support the transformation of the energy generation in India towards a greater use of solar energy, among others through the increased promotion of photovoltaics and thus to contribute to a sustainable, climate and environmentally friendly energy supply.

Support the Government of India in the implementation of its Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) which includes multiple measures to reform the distribution companies (DISCOMs).

The programme aims to increase Rishikesh's climate resilience and improve supply structures. Investments in infrastructure measures are intended to address climate risks such as flooding and water scarcity. Measures include blue/green infrastructure, improved water supply and wastewater disposal and climate-friendly transport infrastructure. The project executing agency is the Uttarakhand Urban Development Department.

The accompanying measure will include activities to mitigate project risks and activities to further develop the partner banks capacity in the field of energy efficiency financing, including environmental and social aspects.

This grant is the accompanying measure for the loan with the BMZ number 2019 67 991. It includes capacity building measures and targeted support for the project executing organisation, the Uttarakhand Urban Development Authority. The aim is to enable sustainable and appropriate preparation, planning, implementation, monitoring and maintenance of the various projects in the areas of (waste) water infrastructure, mobility and climate resilience measures.

Contribution to climate-friendly urban development in selected states and cities in India.

In India, the collection and use of local biodiversity data through People’s Biodiversity Registers (PBR) remains limited due to skill gaps, data quality issues, and the lack of a digital system. The project supports a national electronic PBR framework to enable better collection and use of local biodiversity data. The project develops a national electronic PBR framework with digital tools and clear processes, offers user training, and pilots this approach in selected Indian states.

India faces the challenge of overcoming climate risks such as water scarcity, extreme weather and failed harvests. Disadvantaged population groups in agriculture are particularly affected. The project supports Indian state governments in developing risk-based, gender-responsive climate action plans. The project promotes women’s participation, imparts knowledge on climate-risk-based planning to policy-makers and civil society, and works with financial institutions on new instruments for climate-resilient business models.

Strenghening of responsible authorties for water monitoring.

India’s industry sectors have strong scope to grow sustainably, but many still rely on environmentally harmful practices. The project supports the development of adapted “Best Available Techniques” (BAT) reference documents (BREFs) for selected sectors like textiles. Its goal is to strengthen environmental compliance, promote resource efficiency, and foster innovation. In cooperation with the Central Pollution Control Board, Germany's central environmental authority (UBA), and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board, the project builds capacity among regulators and industry through training, guidance and participatory dialogues.

India’s cities offer strong potential to improve air quality by modernising how they monitor and manage pollution. The project builds institutional capacity for the National Clean Air Programme by developing and optimising PRANA, a digital portal for city-level air-quality tracking. It also supports national and municipal authorities via technical advice and training in partnership with selected city governments, and international experts.

Increase productivity, efficiency, and sustainability of smallholder agricultural, create employment opportunities and higher incomes for smallholder farmers fund through invests in the Indian Omnivore Partners India Fund 3, which provides equity to young companies that develop and distribute innovative technologies and services for India's agricultural sector.

Many graduates in Asia, especially women, still lack digital skills which are needed for a obtaining qualified jobs. This gap limits their success in today’s changing job market and requires targeted education. The goal of this project is to provide young Asian students with enhanced digital skills for better future career options. Together with universities, industry, and government, the project develops ten practical short courses in artificial intelligence, data, and digital entrepreneurship.

The state of Uttarakhand faces challenges with regard to the provision of adequate water, wastewater and rainwater infrastructure. The project comprises two individual measures aimed at improving the supply of environmentally friendly infrastructure in Haridwar and Rishikesh. The measures include the construction of sewers, pumping stations and sewage treatment plants. The projects are being implemented by the Drinking Water Authority and the Uttarakhand Urban Development Department.

This grant is the accompanying measure for the loan with the BMZ number 2018 677 20. It includes capacity building measures and targeted support for the project executing agency, the Uttarakhand Urban Development Department. The aim is to enable sustainable and appropriate preparation, planning, implementation, monitoring and maintenance of the various projects of the measures in the area of expansion/rehabilitation of wastewater infrastructure.

The FC project aims to support the improvement of energy efficiency and the expansion of renewable energies in India. As part of the project, an existing lift irrigation system is being modernized in an energy-efficient manner and a PV plant is being constructed along with the necessary grid infrastructure. The beneficiaries of the program are the project executing agency itself, the state of Maharashtra, and the agricultural end users of the irrigation system, who are expected to benefit from a more stable and sustainable water supply and investments in improvements to water and crop management. KfW is supporting the project with a reduced interest loan of EUR 130 million.

The FC project aims to support the improvement of energy efficiency and the expansion of renewable energies in India. As part of the project, an existing lift irrigation system is being modernized in an energy-efficient manner and a PV plant is being constructed along with the necessary grid infrastructure. The beneficiaries of the program are the project executing agency itself, the state of Maharashtra, and the agricultural end users of the irrigation system, who are expected to benefit from a more stable and sustainable water supply and investments in improvements to water and crop management. KfW is supporting the project with a reduced interest loan of EUR 130 million.