- India in a unique move has launched Green Strategic Partnership for the first time with Denmark as its partner as the two aim to be at forefront of the global fight against the Climate Change.
- This partnership would build on and consolidate the existing agreement establishing a Joint Commission for Cooperation (signed 6 February 2009) between India and Denmark
- which envisaged cooperation within the political field;
- economic and commercial field;
- science and technology;
- environment;
- energy;
- Education and culture.
- In addition, it builds on and complements the existing Joint Working Groups on
- Renewable Energy, Urban Development, Environment, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Food Processing, Science, Technology and Innovation, Shipping, Labour Mobility and Digitization.
- The Strategic Sector Cooperation on offshore wind and renewable energy, as well as
- India-Denmark Energy Partnership (INDEP) on capacity building, knowledge-sharing and technology transfer on wind energy;
- Energy modeling and integration of renewable energy illustrate the shared commitment to address some of the common global challenges on the path towards global energy transition, green growth and sustainable development.
- Both countries have set very ambitious national targets on climate and energy that will contribute to an ambitious implementation of the Paris Agreement.
- They further agreed to cooperate in water efficiency and non-revenue water (water loss) and in this context tasked the
- Indian Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food to develop a Work Plan for an initial period of three years (2021-23).
- The two Prime Ministers at the Summit expressed their joint wish to enhance cooperation in the specific areas of
- Water supply, water distribution, wastewater treatment, sewerage systems, re-use of treated wastewater, water management and energy optimization in the water sector through the Indo-Danish Water Technology Alliance.
- Both sides also agreed to strengthen existing City-to-City cooperation between Udaipur and Aarhus and Tumakuru and Aalborg.
- India and Denmark confirmed the emerging cooperation in Intellectual Property Rights, which will help to modernize and strengthen their national intellectual property systems to promote innovation, creativity and technological advancement.