Union Cabinet sanctions MoU on Energy Efficiency between India, France

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that it has sanctioned Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and France in the field of energy efficiency / energy conservation. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on October 17, 2018.

The Cabinet said in a statement that, the MoU is a Science and Technology agreement, which involves knowledge exchange and cooperation in the nature of technical assistance only.

Further, this MoU between the two countries is anticipated to take forward information exchange on policies, programmes and technologies concerning to enhanced energy efficiency and demand side management.

Furthermore, the agreement will further lead to consciousness creation on energy efficiency, development of tools for collection, use and analysis of CO2 emissions and GHG data for tracking global emissions for INDC.

Besides, it will endorse Research and Development (R&D), and demonstration of energy efficient technologies, development of sustainable mobility with specific focus on electric transport, it added.