About The Program

Eco-Cities India is a multi-year technical advisory program, established under the EU-India Cooperation on Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency. A climate-change focused initiative, the program is structured around five cities—Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, and the Mumbai and Pune metropolitan regions. The program is designed to assist government and civil society in meeting efficiency targets, such as the Nationally Determined Contributions—the pledged reductions in emissions levels and increased focus on climate-resilient development.

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Why Focus On Cities ?

50
percent

of India’s population will be urban by the year 2050

404 million

more people will be living in Indian cities by the year 2050

35
percent

of the total energy in India is attributable to buildings

76
cities

in India exceed the acceptable limits of air pollution parameters

1000
percent

increase in India’s carbon emissions since 1971

Key Sectors

Eco-Cities India has focused its efforts on four key urban sectors that, taken together, are significant contributors to emissions and the resultant effects on the environment. These are Urban Transport, Green Buildings, Water &Solid Waste Management, and Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. Interventions take many forms, including the development of policy incentives and business initiatives designed to help businesses transition to carbon neutral sources of power, certification standards for eco-friendly construction, as well as city-wide energy mapping and greenhouse gas inventories.

Urban
Transport
Green
Buildings
Water & Solid Waste Management
Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

What Our Partners Say

Thane is taking credible and concrete steps in moving towards a future of sustainable mobility. Institutions such as the IFC are offering valuable help to the Thane Municipal Corporation to facilitate the setting up of charging infrastructure for faster adoption of electric vehicles.

Sameer Unhale, Additional Commissioner, Thane Municipal Corporation

Hero Electric’s technical expertise and IFC’s vast global experience together will help tackle problem of pollution and climate change in India by facilitating adoption of Electric Vehicles. We are looking forward to our partnership with IFC-EU Eco-Cities program to support Indian cities in its goal of driving sustainable mobility solutions in the near future.

Naveen Munjal, Managing Director, Hero Electric

We will be encouraged to switch to electric rickshaws if public charging infrastructure is available to us as suggested under the IFC Eco-cities program.

Padman Kumar Samal, General Secretary, Bhubaneswar Auto Union

We appreciate the IFC Eco-Cities Program in driving the initiative in climate change mitigation and fostering electric mobility. Jangid Motors can leverage its experience in manufacturing, distribution, and operations in electric three-wheelers. This will not only foster the entire ecosystem but also complement the public transportation system in the chosen cities under the Program.

 Mohit S. Jangid, Founder Director, Jangid Motors

We will have to take certain ambitious policy decisions, taking the developers, architects and stakeholders into confidence. We will also need to create awareness among people to make their buildings green through simple measures. The policy will help reduce the use of water, electricity and manage solid waste.

 Sandeep Malvi, Public Relations Officer, Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC)   

Adoption of technology must focus on green energy, savings of affordable housings offers a significant opportunity for green housing

Shri S. Krishnan, IAS, Principal Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu, 
Housing and Urban Development Department

I am happy to support IFC to solve the E-Waste problems that improve the situations of the informal sector. A proper implementation of E-Waste legislation will create a market of 3 billion dollars and more than 300,000 shops in India.

Dr. Kopacek, E-Waste Sector Specialist IFC

Clean e-Bhubaneswar is a unique initiative at demonstrating the urge of reimagining E-Waste as a resource. It has set an extraordinary example of public-private partnerships to make the city free from the hazards of E-Waste.

 Biswajit Nayak, Regional Manager, Infosys, Bhubaneswar 

The Clean e-Bhubaneswar initiative gave us a rare opportunity to learn about E-Waste and its responsible management. I look forward to having more such awareness programs.

Dr. B. N. Biswal, Principal, Bhubaneswar Engineering College

We are looking forward to a successful partnership with IFC-EU Eco-Cities Program to support Indian cities in their goal of driving sustainable mobility solutions in the near future.

Naveen Munjal, Managing Director, Hero Electric

India's Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium making impact! Policies & technologies identified, one state's green incentive policy helped, consumer feedback taken! Time to enable 100% green buildings! 

Sameer Unhale, Thane Additional Commissioner

Clean e-Bhubaneswar

The International Finance Corporation is supporting the city of Bhubaneswar in realising the Clean E-Bhubaneswar Project, a first of its kind collaboration between local government and the private sector to address the mounting challenges of E-Waste in cities. The project serves as a model for full scale E-Waste management in cities across India.

Meeting at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)

Stakeholder discussion chaired jointly by the Joint Secretary of Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and the Joint Secretary of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) - Housing For All (PMAY), with senior officers from IFC, Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) and representatives from the Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium (SHLC) with the aim of identifying policy interventions for an enabling environment to scale up susta

Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium

Convened in 2016, Sustainable Housing Leadership Consortium (SHLC) is a voluntary private sector consortium led by the CEOs of leading developers and financial institutions to address the inadequacy of resources in a rapidly urbanizing India. Founding members include real estate titans Godrej Properties, Mahindra Lifespace Developers, Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate, Tata Housing Development Company and VBHC Value Homes, as well as financial institutions like HDFC and PNB Housing Finance Corporation.

Green Affordable Housing

To address the shortage of urban housing, approximately 11 million new homes are to be constructed over the next few years under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY). Construction at this scale will put significant strain on the supply of resources like water and electricity, as well as increasing the output of waste materials like greenhouse gasses. To support PMAY in the endeavour to create ‘Housing for All’, but also to mitigate the environmental impact of this massive national project, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) established the Green Affordable Housing program.

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