Kolkata: British Deputy High Commission-Kolkata and CII along with West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) are working with technical partners CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, Eunomia Research and Consulting, UK and Jadavpur University on a first-of-its-kind project in India titled "Fiscal Instruments for Climate - Friendly Industrial Development in West Bengal and Odisha."
This project is being funded by UK FCO's Prosperity Fund India programme, to help develop low carbon industrial policies of the states. The project objective is to help West Bengal and other states adopt appropriate fiscal instruments by 2013 to mobilize low carbon investment and facilitate low carbon industrial development.
In this regard, CII together with British Deputy High Commission, Kolkata, will be organising a session on UK-India partnership: Fiscal Instruments for Low Carbon Business to launch the project reports on national and international review of lessons learnt from fiscal instruments for low carbon industrial development.
Mr Gregory Barker minister of department of energy and climate change, UK, Mr Partha Chatterjee, West Bengal commerce and industry minister and Dr Sudarsan Ghosh Dastidar, the state environment minister will hold a discussion on this issue.
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