Lok Sabha Question No. 2259 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-15
Subject: Clean Development Mechanism
Ministry: URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: LAKHAN LAL SAHU

- (d)

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 2259 TO BE ANSWERED ON MARCH 15, 2017

## CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM

No. 2259            SHRI LAKHAN LAL SAHU:

Will the Minister of URBAN DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) Whether  the  government  has  set  up  Clean  Development
- Mechanism (CDM) facility cell:
- (b) If so, the details thereof including the objectives thereof;
- (c) Whether any committee has been setup to study the said
- mechanism
- If so, the details thereof including the recommendations of the said committee; and
- (e) The  steps  taken/  being  taken  to  implement  the  said recommendations?

## ANSWER

THE  MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  URBAN DEVELOPMENT

(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a) & (b):

The  Government  has  set  up  National  Clean  Development Mechanism  Authority  (NCDMA)  for  evaluation  and  approval  of Clean  Development  Mechanism  (CDM)  projects  as  per  the guidelines and general criteria laid down in the relevant rules and  modalities  pertaining  to  CDM  under  the  United  Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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(c) to (e): The composition of the "National Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Authority" is as follows:

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| 1.                                                                         | Secretary (Environment and Forests) Chairperson   |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| 2. Foreign Secretary or                                                    | his nominee Member                                |
| 3. Finance Secretary or his nominee                                        | Member                                            |
| 4. Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion or his nominee | Member                                            |
| 5. Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy or his nominee          | Member                                            |
| 6. Secretary, Ministry of Power or his nominee                             | Member                                            |
| 7. Secretary, Planning Commission or his nominee                           | Member                                            |
| 8. Secretary, DST or his nominee                                           | Member                                            |
| 9. Joint Secretary (Climate Ministry of Environment                        | Change), and Forests Member                       |
| 10. Director (Climate Environment and                                      | Change), Ministry of Forests Member- Secretary    |

Till  February  2017,  the  Authority  has  accorded  Host  Country Approval  (HCA)  to  3,011  projects.    The  Government  regularly undertakes  capacity  building  initiatives  and  supports  CDM projects  through  workshops,  seminars  and  other  activities  in collaboration with the industry associations and project proponents in the private and public sector. CDM Tool Kit has been developed to promote CDM activities.

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