Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a busy schedule during the COP 21 climate summit in Paris on November 30th, 2015. He addressed the conference, launched the International Solar Alliance with French President Francois Hollande, spoke at an Innovation Summit with other world leaders, and held bilateral talks with leaders including US President Barack Obama and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Modi emphasized the need for developed countries to take aggressive mitigation actions by 2020 and the importance of global partnership in reaching a climate deal. The Chairman of Assocham France, Tirthankar Goyal, addressed the event and discussed Assocham's role in supporting India's renewable energy development through partnerships that bring new technologies and skills from Europe.

1. M. Modi visit to Paris for Climate Summit on 30th November’2015
Solar energy, innovation summit and bilateral talks: Here's what PM Narendra Modi did in Paris.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a packed schedule at the Monday the COP 21 summit in Paris as
he addressed the conference, launched the International Solar Alliance with French President
Francois Hollande, spoke at the Innovation Summit with other world leaders and held bilateral talks
with several leaders including US President Barack Obama and Japan's Shinzo Abe. Modi also had a
conversation with his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines.
PM Modi at Indian Pavallin attended by M. Tirthankar Goyal (Chairman-Assocham France) just
infront of Indian PM , FICCI President Mme Jyotsana Suri and M. Sumit Mazumdar ( CII President )
along with the industry leaders.
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2. M. Modi emphasized the needs of the principles of equity and common but differentiated
responsibilities of our collective enterprise , which shoule be aggressive mitigative action by
developed countries by 2020. Further he also underlined the need for a national will and genuine
global partnership while taking steps to hammer out a climate change deal.
M. Tirthankar Goyal( Chairman-Assocham France) had the opportunity to addess the event during
the COP 21 summit, and the role and support of Indian industry in the International Solar Alliance in
terms of development of renewable energy in colloboration of Indian govenemnt . He added that

3. Assocham is ready to deploy its resources , if funds and technology comes to India . As he hoped that
the developed countries would mobilise $100 billion annually by 2020 for mitigation and adaptation.
Assocham is ready to partnership with investmentment in the solar sector, joint ventures and
developing innovative financing mechanisms.
He added that there is already a revolution in solar energy. Technology is evolving, costs are coming
down and grid connectivity is improving
Mr. Tirthankar Goyal-Chairman Assocham France along with M. Piyush Goyal ( Minister for Energy)
and M. Prakash Javedkar ( Minister for Enviroment) and Industry leaders from India.
M. Tirthankar Goyal discussed with M. Piyush Goyal and indicated the willingness on the part of
Assocham to partnership with GOI in the target of generating 1,75,000 MW of Renewable energy (
RE) by 2022 to ensure energy security of the country. Assocham will bring and looking for new
technologies, Machines, Equipment, training of technical personnel, exchange of information and
data, joint research and transfer of know-how and technology from Europeans countries particularily
Germany and France . It would cover solar, wind, bio-energy, tidal and wave energy sectors.

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