Greener Industries, Stronger Economies

Japan-India Collaboration on Technology Transfer for a Sustainable Future

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In India’s ambitious bid to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, a collective and concerted approach, involving multiple industries and stakeholders, is the need of the hour. With Article 6 of the Paris Agreement emphasizing on international collaboration, the project teams at IGES¹ and TERI² detail how India and Japan are engaging towards the goal by knowledge-sharing and technology transfer.

India is the world’s most populous country with approximately 1.43 billion people and is also the world’s fastest growing economy. This acts as a big deterrent in promoting economic development in a sustainable manner so that India can address environmental problems and meet its target to become a net-zero economy by 2070. Overcoming this challenge requires a large-scale switchover from less efficient and highly polluting technologies and practices to highly efficient, environment-friendly technologies (ETs).

The switch to ETs need to be undertaken not only in the materials, equipment and processes that are used in India’s industrial sector—which is a prime driver of India’s economic development, accounting for about 28 per cent of GDP—but also must extend to all the other sectors of the economy that are witnessing rapid expansion in pace with India’s overall growth—airports, commercial buildings, communication, housing, power, roads and railways, shipping, etc.