3rd Edition of CAP 2.0 Awards

CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development is a not-for-profit, industry- led institution that helps business become sustainable organizations. It is on a mission to propagate innovative ideas and solutions in India and globally, to enable business, and its stakeholders in sustainable value creation. CESD has leveraged its role of all- inclusive ecosystem player, partnering industry, government, and civil society. It has been a pioneer of environment management systems, biodiversity mapping, sustainability reporting, integrated reporting, and social & natural capital valuation in India, thus upgrading business in India to sustainable competitiveness.

Since its inception in the year 2006, CII-ITC CESD has evolved with a tremendous trajectory, starting off with the incubation phase of introducing business services, right through augmenting manpower capacity in other cities since 2013, eventually scaling up to the highest rung of strengthening work on macro-economic issues with both domestic and global policy interventions.

CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, with DSM’s support, initiated the Climate Action Programme CAP 2.0° for Indian industry in 2018, with an objective to recognise and drive meaningful corporate action on climate change, and promote the integration of such action into organisational business models and processes. The programme is developed according to the maturity level of companies to tackle climate related risks and opportunities with regard to climate action.

CAP 2.0° aims to help the companies in preparing scenario analysis, aids in implementing Task Force on Climate- Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations and calculate internal carbon pricing with a better investor and stakeholder relations due to enhanced clarity on long term climate change strategy.

At CAP 2.0° platform, industries are provided with the opportunity to demonstrate their climate change mitigation & adaptation efforts and receive recognition.

This is the Third edition and in the last 2 years more than 50 companies from different sectors including MSMEs have applied and 11 companies have been recognised, which also includes MSMEs.

UNIQUENESS OF THE AWARDS

A national programme to recognise climate action by industries using a three dimensional assessment methodology that aims to raise the bar on climate action. A team of qualified CII certified assessors will assess applications over a period of five months and provide unbiased analysis.

PROGRAMME KEY DIFFERENTIATORS

• Tangible Impact through cost reduction, due to reduction of GHG emissions at operations and the supply chain
• Practical roadmap of implementation and sector specific analysis
• Assessment done by independent CII trained Assessors
• A detailed feedback report which highlights their strengths and opportunities

BENEFITS TO COMPANIES

• Better Investor and stakeholder relations, due to enhanced clarity on long term climate change strategy
• dentification of climate change risk and mitigation risk
• Access to capital providers
• Get prepared for disclosures to Global Climate Frameworks

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

You can apply, if you are,

1. Operating in India, for At Least Five Years
2. A Large, Medium, Small, Micro-sized Enterprise or an independent unit

3. Companies from the following sectors can apply

   Infrastructure
   Light Manufacturing
   Energy, Mining & Heavy Manufacturing
   Services Sector

STAGE 1 : APPLICATION

• Receiving an Expression of Interest
• Receiving the filled online application from the applicant
• Preliminary screening of all the applications

STAGE 2: DESK ASSESSMENT

• Desk assessment by a team of trained CII CAP 2.0° Assessors
• Consensus on assessment results by assessment team
• Feedback report to applicants who could not qualify for site assessment

STAGE 3: SITE ASSESSMENT

• Assessment by the same team of assessors
• Revised consensus by assessment team

STAGE 4: AWARDS PRESENTATION

• Announcement of winners
• Feedback report to applicants

IMPORTANT DATES

Expression of Interest : 17 November 2021

Last date for submission of filled questionnaire : 29 December 2021

AWARD CATEGORIES

Depending on maturity level, companies are recognised as,

1. Resilient : Strategy and plan aligned to mitigate climate risk, Climate change lanning is futuristic, adaptation projects aligned to build resilience, mitigation projects are planned and executed, targets to reduce emissions science based and futuristic.

2. Oriented : Organisation strategy is aligned, climate risk is part of companies ERM, competent person handling the portfolio, GHG targets are futuristic.

3. Committed : Identifies primary risk, GHG management, target decided, participatory culture. The programme also allows companies to create a road map and build capacity of employees through easy to understand methods, dedicated handholding on climate action and build maturity year-on-year.