NEW DELHI, 23 April, 2021 (TON): The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has announced a U.S.-India partnership on clean energy and climate change.

While addressing the Leaders’ Climate Summit, Modi announced launch of India-US climate and clean energy Agenda 2030 partnership.

This partnership can be a sample of green collaborations to help developing countries access to affordable green finance and clean technologies.

Modi said that we will help mobilize investments, demonstrate clean technologies, and enable green collaborations.

Prime Minister said that India's ambitious renewable energy target of 450 Gigawatts by 2030 shows our commitment.

Modi said, despite our development challenges, we have taken many bold steps on clean energy, energy efficiency, afforestation and bio-diversity.

However, not only India but at the Summit called by U.S. President Joe Biden, several countries including the U.S., Japan and Canada announced their enhanced climate action plans to substantially cut their carbon footprints by 2030.