Environment Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI) is a nodal agency for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Centre for Climate Change for combined Andhra Pradesh (AP) since 2001. Government of Telangana has issued GO.Ms.No.06 dated 17.03.2016 mentioning that EPTRI is the nodal Agency and directed all the line departments to inform EPTRI any information, data, project undertaken etc related to climate change, for mapping of the knowledge and data resources and for positioning of a data sharing policy framework for building strategic knowledge among the various arms of Government.