What is the Tech Team?

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The Fair Climate Network has set up an FCN Tech Team at Bangalore. The comprise a CDM Specialist, CDM Facilitators, NGO Dynamics staff, LCF Expert and LCF Facilitators, all supported by an Office Manager.

Technical Team

Preparing Climate Mitigation Projects requires a thorough procedural understanding of various Standards and Methodologies, as well as scientific and technical skills to choose an apt and implementable technology, study its financial viability, develop the PDD and PIN, obtain Host Country Approval from the DNA, appoint a DOE, see through Validation and register with the UNFCCC and/or Gold Standard and/or VCS.

NGO Dynamics Team

The NGO Dynamics Team support NGOs and CBOs to build capabilities and make the Climate Mitigation Projects they undertake truly community owned and managed. They assist grassroots NGOs and CBOs to assess strengths, challenges, opportunities and develop capabilities. They also suggest a legal and accounting framework within which grassroots NGOs/CBOs can implement Climate Mitigation Projects and trade in Carbon Offsets.

LCF Team

The Fair Climate Network is a pioneer in Low Carbon Farming. This is the incentivising or rewarding of Sustainable Agriculture practices taken up by small and marginal farmers with Carbon Revenues.

Several grassroots NGOs form themselves into FCN-LCF Coalitions. LCF Facilitators assist them in conducting demographic surveys of Participating Farmers, take GPS coordinates and delineate their Discrete Plots, assist Farmer families to undertake Sustainable Agriculture practices and maintain Diaries, etc.

In partnership with Environmental Defense Fund, New York, the LCF Expert provides cutting edge science prove emission reductions by setting up GHG Laboratories for various Main Crop(s) in various sub Agro Ecological Zones (AEZ's)


The FCN Tech Team has a mandate to assist only pro-poor Climate Mitigation Projects undertaken by grassroots NGOs who have an intimate contact with the communities they work with, and have open, transparent and upfront Carbon Revenue Sharing Agreements with these families and communities.

The Tech Team reports to the Fair Climate Network through the FCN Convenor and Core Group through a digitized online monitoring system contained in this website.

For the first 4 years, till mid 2012, Icco, the Netherlands, supported the setting up of this FCN Tech Team with a generous grant to handhold and assist the preparation of 20 pro-poor Climate Mitigation Projects and reach out to 600,000 families. Icco also provided a limited bridging fund of Rs 1.4 crores to help meet shortfalls that the project proponents (grassroots NGOs) may face in meeting transaction costs.

As a result, free orientation, training, consultancy, facilitation and handholding were provided by the FCN Tech Team. Henceforth, this will not be possible and operations have to be at an "at cost" basis.

The Fair Climate Services Pvt. Ltd. has been registered as the legal holder of the FCN Tech Team. Services will be provided through 3 sequentially phased stages as follows:

  • 1st Phase

    Assist to choose apt and implementable technologies chosen by grassroots NGOs that can be interpreted as Climate Mitigation Projects, and generate carbon offsets.
    (applicable for grassroots NGOs who wish to explore Climate Mitigation Projects and carbon revenues as a strategy for pro-poor sustainable development).


  • 2nd Phase

    Develop Project Design Documents (PDD's) and submit for registration under CDM and/or Gold Standard and/or VCS.
    (applicable for grassroots NGOs who decide to develop Climate Mitigation Projects).


  • 3rd Phase

    Assist NGOs in developing NGO/CBO structures and systems for Project Implementation & putting Monitoring systems in place, as per registered PDD requirements.
    (applicable after the Carbon Financer has been identified for the registered Climate Mitigation Project)