Event Summary
ORF America hosted a one-day workshop of Indian energy and climate experts in government, civil society, and private sector to discuss actionable strategies for India to expand cooperation with the United States in energy and climate. A successful state visit from India to the United States in June 2023 has encouraged greater energy and climate cooperation in the next several years. 2024 is a crucial year in both countries to leverage and expand upon the strategic convergences in climate finance, electric mobility and diversified clean energy manufacturing from the state visit. The preceding two years have shown that each country has started initiatives on their own based on respective interests, and the state visit has framed the beginnings of how these initiatives may overlap, complement, or synergize each other, especially given convergences between the United States and India in areas other than energy and climate.
The focus of this event was to gather perspectives from Indian stakeholders to articulate India’s emerging needs for its energy transition in its relationship with the United States. In this closed door, invite-only workshop, panelists discussed several crucial topics, including (1) critical minerals and clean energy supply chains; (2) climate finance; (3) climate resilience and adaptation; (4) green hydrogen, green steel, and fertilizer; and (5) clean and electric mobility.
Speakers:
Keynote: Dr Hanif Quereshi, Additional Secretary (Automobiles Division), Ministry of Heavy Industries
Shuva Raha, Head - New Initiatives, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Aaran Patel, Director – Climate, The Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation
Dr. Abhinav Jindal, Senior Faculty – Power Management Institute
Avantika Goswami, Programme Manager, Climate Change, Centre for Science and Environment
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha, India Director, Climate Policy Initiative
Dr. Vikrom Mathur, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
Dr. Pooja Ramamurthi, Associate Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress
Pawan Mulukutla, Executive Program Director - Integrated Transport, Clean Air and Hydrogen, World Resources Institute India
Hemant Mallya, Fellow, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Moderator: Dr Shayak Sengupta, Fellow in Energy & Climate, ORF America
