• NITI Aayog and the Embassy of the Netherlands, New Delhi, has signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to support the ‘decarbonization and energy transition agenda’ for accommodating cleaner and more energy.
• The SoI was signed by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and Ambassador of the Netherlands to India Marten van den Berg.

Key elements of the agenda include:

• lowering the net carbon footprint in industrial and transport sectors
• realise the target potential of natural gas and promote bio-energy technologies
• adopt clean air technologies from monitoring to reducing actual particulates
• adopt next-generation technologies, such as hydrogen, carbon capture utilization, and storage for sectoral energy efficiency
• financial frameworks to deliver and adopt climate change finance.