FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCING UNIT

• To serve as the nodal point on all climate change financing matters in the Finance Ministry.
• To represent Ministry of Finance in all climate change and related issues in all international and domestic fora.
• To prepare briefs and position papers for Government of India's position on climate financing
• To provide guidance and inputs to MoEF to feed into climate change negotiations as well as to develop capacity to analyze emerging issues
• Assess the submissions on 'climate change financing' from various national Governments who are Parties to the UN framework Convention on Climate Change
• Analyze the financial pledges of developed countries
• Provide inputs to the designing, operationalization and working of Green Climate Fund as per the Cancun agreement
• Intergovernmental Expert Committee on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF), set up under the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development - or Rio+20