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Geopolitics of climate tech: Notes from the bharat climate forum

9 Jan 2026 An year ago, in 2025, Bharat Climate Forum was established to position India as a leader in cleantech manufacturing enabling the nation to become self reliant in green technologies, as it steadily progresses towards the goal of net zero emissions by 2070, while keeping in mind the nation's ambition of achieving a fully developed status with a $10 Trillion Economy by 2047.  The challenge is ,as noted by several thought leaders on the stage and in the roundtable discussions, that India needs to set a global precedent of developing while using green technologies. This has not been achieved before. The industrial revolution in the European nations and in the USA was powered by fossil fuels.     Even today both EU and USA are significant Green house gas(GHG) emitters.  In 2023, EU27 fossil fuel-related GHG emissions totaled about 3.22 billion tonnes CO2 eq  US energy-related CO2 emissions stood at around 6 billion metric tons India's curre...