The Climate and Carbon Unit (CCU) was established at AEPC in July 2010 with financial support from UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the technical assistance of SNV Nepal. Since its establishment, the unit has been catalyzing the renewable energy programmes in order to better address climate change issues.

The objectives of the CCU are:

• to develop AEPC as knowledge centre of climate change mitigation and adaptation,
• to establish institutional linkage of Climate Change activities of AEPC with Climate Change Management Division of the MoEST,
• further leverage the carbon mitigation and climate change adaptation potential of existing and future AEPC programmes/technologies,
• to institutionalize and mainstream carbon financing in the RET sector.

The CCU supports government to formulate climate change sensitive RE policy and plan, support Government of Nepal to develop a Guideline for Local Level Climate Change Initiatives and support District Development Committees to prepare climate and gender sensitive energy plans and to implement it. CCU is working on Development & management of RETs carbon projects feasible in the country. It has successes in registering 5 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects; 4 biogas projects consisting about 60 thousands biogas plants, and one Micro hydro project with total 448 mini/micro hydro projects. CCU has developed the District Climate and Energy Plans preparation Guidelines and developed District Climate and Energy Plans (DCEPs) for three pilot districts namely; Ilam, Makawanpur and Mustang. Capacity building of DDC-DEEU/S to coordinate climate change activities at local level and ensure coordination and cooperation between the AEPC and the wider climate change sector are the other activities being conducted by the unit.

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