Dieter Brulez 1 Moderator: Karina Nikov, GIZ Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas: an innovative project in India INDUSTRIAL AREAS: BE COMPETITIVE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY. CRITERIA FOR BEST PRACTICES | MEXICO Oct 2015

Summary – 5 key thesis / messages  Adaptation to Climate Change is a very new challenge for Industrial Development in India, for GIZ & its partners.  New challenges need new ideas and innovative approaches to achieve tangible results.  Adaptation to CC is necessary to survive, but it also creates new business/service opportunities.  Adaptation to CC in IP is best organised as a learning process for industries and IP management.  Risk analysis to CC in IP is a part of the Climate Proofing tools and Environment Impact Assessments and needs to be addressed in the planning and upgrading / retro-fitting processes. Title of Input / Comment 2

Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is a very new challenge for Industrial Development in India, for GIZ & its partners CCA in IP is a very new approach and has started in May 2015 only; one of very few GIZ CCA in industry projects in the world. Partner organisations still struggle to distinguish CCA from other pollution control measures; risk analysis is not a common approach. Information on Climate Hazards are only randomly available; nonetheless CC is felt as a challenge especially for future industrial development. Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas: an innovative project in India 3

New challenges need new ideas and innovative approaches to achieve tangible results Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas: an innovative project in India 4

Adaptation to CC is necessary to survive…. From a business perspective, adaptation assures survival and enables growth of industrial businesses in times of changing climate. As a basis, risks from climate change are reduced which can involve spending financial resources. – For example, properly installed and maintained storm water drainage can decrease the risk of damages from flooding; – plantation and landscaping can reduce a potential heat island effect; – proper disaster management can provide synergies in managing climate-related disasters; – capacity building for the industries could include climate change awareness and risk management; Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas: an innovative project in India 5

Adaptation to CC could create cost reductions and new business/service opportunities 1.Opportunities for cost reduction in operations; competitive advantage can be increased 2.Opportunities for improving an industry’s or industrial park’s reputation among key stakeholders; resource conservation helps in dealing with reliability issues 3.Opportunities for developing the skill-base for the future 4.Opportunities for anticipating regulation and becoming a first-mover which can result in a competitive advantage to other companies not following the respective development; 5.Business opportunities in new markets for adaptation products and services or from tapping into climate finance opportunities Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas: an innovative project in India 6

CCA in IP is best organised as a learning process for industries and IP management So far CCA is only a diffuse felt need. Developing capacities to bring innovative CCA measures into practice is a long term task to initiate:  Learning process 1: Create understanding of climate adaptation needs in IP with various stakeholders (policy makers, industrial managers, IP developers/management);  Learning process 2: Mainstreaming of adaptation needs into strategies, policies, planning, retro-fitting processes;  Learning process 3: Translate adaptation needs into infrastructure, management and cooperation measures in IPs. Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas: an innovative project in India 7

Analysis of risks to CC in IP / new, additional criteria for sustainability? CCA and risk management is an integral part and mandatory task of good governance / management to avoid serious, long-term losses and damage to industry and to harness the rising potential opportunities. CC, both mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk management and sustainable development are often discussed and considered by separate communities and understood as separate goals and processes, which should be avoided. However, we strongly suggest to pursue an integrated approach: understanding adaptation to and mitigation of CC, disaster risk management and sustainable (industrial) development as interlinked and closely connected processes all striving to improve and ensure livelihood conditions of existing and future generations. Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas: an innovative project in India 8

9 Speaker‘s/ expert‘s name: Dieter Brulez Position: Team Leader / Project Director Institution: CCA-Project, Hyderabad, India; Implemented by: INTEGRATION Energy & Environment Address: 8th Fl. Parisrama Bhavan, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad , Telangana, India Phone: