Our group of MPs in India played a key role in increasing the budget of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) over three years from US$200 million to $1 billion annually.

We have teamed up with the PAP to implement a series of virtual parliamentary roundtables to engage African MPs on climate and energy issues.

Both initiatives were proposed and championed by Climate Parliament MPs.

The Climate Parliament MPs played a key role in removing value-added tax from solar equipment.

Solar mini-grids have been built in 50 villages in the state of Bihar as a result of our work. Villages in Odisha and Karnataka are also plugging into the sun with support from Local Area Development funds available to their local MPs.

The Climate Parliament is a member of the board of the Beijing-based GlobalEnergy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO).

The Climate Parliament group successfully pressed for legislation establishing a Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA), to oversee all renewable energy development and financing.

We teamed up with the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association to launch an effort to strengthen China’s renewable energy law. 96 Members of the National People’s Congress signed a resolution supporting this initiative.

Our group in the European Parliament succeeded in protecting at least €3 billion from the Connecting Europe Facility in the EU budget for cross-border electricity inter-connectors. Most of these funds would otherwise have been spent on gas pipelines.

The Climate Parliament has signed a collaboration agreement to provide parliamentary support to ISA, an alliance of countries led by India and France that aims to facilitate massive deployment of solar energy.

Built after a local MP learned about such pumps at a Climate Parliament meeting.