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• Producing a short documentary series titled ‘Faces of
Climate Resilience’, in association with the Council on
Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), which
captures the voices of people in some of India's most
climate-vulnerable regions. The series won the
'Excellence Award' at the Docs Without Borders
International Film Festival, held in the United States
of America.

• Conducting eight climate briefing events
and workshops.

GOING FORWARD

• In partnership with CSEI for the development of the
Jaltol / Water Diagnostic Toolkit, the ICC will place more
emphasis on smaller sprints of user research, paired BEST PRACTICES
with development, rather than longer feature
development cycles (6 months) so as to ensure timely ICC’s work in the past year has led to the realisation of the
course correction. need for philanthropies and civil society organisations to
build strong coalitions to address the climate crisis. Most
• Launching the Climate Solutions Platform in July 2023, sectoral challenges require answers across levers—policy,
the platform aims to mobilise funding towards inclusive finance, data, service delivery, capacity building – and
climate solutions in India, along with building therefore, even though the outcomes are visible in the long
understanding and capacity of funders and non-profits. term, investing in creating coalitions of organisations that
bring these di erent levers together is critical.
• Building an ambitious engagement plan and runway
that will elevate Indian climate leadership on the global
stage, culminating in COP28 . Throughout the year, ICC CHALLENGES FACED
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will leverage several events and engagement
opportunities, such as G20, London Climate Action The latest amendment to the Foreign Contribution
Week, New York Climate Week, etc. to build a global Regulation Act (FCRA) has limited the ability of various
south-centric narrative on low-carbon development non-profits in India to receive international funding, which
through Indian voices at these platforms, with a severely curtails support for critical climate solutions in
significant presence at COP28. India. While challenging, this has made the ICC’s role in the
ecosystem even more urgent and critical as the need to
increase domestic capital towards climate solutions has
become stronger than ever.

3 COP 28 is the 28 th session of the Conference of Parties, scheduled for December 2023
in Dubai. The event is held every year to discuss and find solutions for climate change.

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