The Canad
a-India Centre hosted a clean technology roundtable in partnership with Global Advantage Consulting Group. The roundtable was attended by business executives, former senior government officials, and researchers.
Discussions revolved around Canada’s Clean Technology sector and various government priorities to help grow the sector and the importance of exporting Canadian clean technologies to help reduce global energy usage and GHG emissions.聽The topic of India’s new renewable energy targets was also discussed.
Participants also discussed聽Canada’s GHG reduction targets and聽its聽global temperature聽rise targets聽approved during COP21 conference in Paris. It was observed that聽for Canada to reach nearly a 200MT聽CO2eq reduction, serious efforts聽will need be made to聽develop, implement and fund initiatives across sectors.
The roundtable聽is a regular feature of the Centre’s core聽services where stakeholders are聽brought together to discuss issues of聽national importance to both countries, Canada and India.