New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) on February 10.
A flagship event of Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), WSDS will be held virtually from February 10 to 12. The summit will bring together global leaders, business stalwarts, academicians, climate scientists, youth, and the civil society in the fight against climate change. India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), are the key partners of the summit.
Other dignitaries invited for the event include President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali; Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape; Speaker of the People’s Majlis, Republic of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed; Deputy Secretary-General of United Nations Amina J Mohammed and Union Minister of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar.
Inaugurating the annual summit in 2018, Prime Minister Modi had said, ‘’This summit is a reinforcement of India’s commitment to a sustainable planet, for us and future generations.”
He had emphasised on the need for collaboration between governments, industries, and people. “The developed world can help us achieve this faster. Successful climate action needs access to financial resources and technology. Technology can help countries like India develop sustainably and enable the poor to benefit from it,” he had said.
Others prominent speakers during this year’s three-day summit include Executive Vice President for the European Green Deal, EU, Frans Timmermans; Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar; President, COP26, Alok Sharma; Co-Founder of Bloomberg LP Michael R Bloomberg; Executive Secretary, UNFCCC, Patricia Espinosa; Basile van Havre, Co-Chair, Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada; Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations and Executive Director, UNEP; Nigel Topping, High-Level Champion for Climate Action, COP26; Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director, the Nobel Foundation; Åslaug Marie Haga, Associate Vice-President- External Relations and Governance Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development, among many others.
As the country partner of the WSDS 2021, the UK government is closely involved in various sessions of the summit, in the run-up to the COP 26, which it is preparing to host in Glasgow in November this year.
Bloomberg Philanthropies, Shakti Sustainable Foundation, Tata Cleantech Capital, European Union, USAID, World Bank, are some of the key institutions partnering with the summit to rally around the themes of clean air, renewable energy, environment, clean oceans, energy transition, resource efficiency and circular economy, among several others. These will be deliberated across nearly ten plenary and twenty thematic tracks over three days.
The detailed agenda of the programme can be accessed here- https://wsds.teriin.org/assets/pdf/WSDS2021_AgenaFramework-as-on-3-feb.pdf
To register for the event, please click: https://register.teriin.org/registration/sgregistration/participants_register.php?type=guest&eid=183