Introduction

Eastern India Chapter of the India Energy forum Energy Forum has been organizing Annual Summit to promote Clean and Renewable Energy for the last four years.

Last year Hon. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in a major Conference in Japan said.

“As a responsible nation that is particularly mindful of its international obligations, India is committed to a path of sustainable development.  Though India’s per-capita emissions are among the lowest in the world and we are certainly not free riders or major emitters, we have recently adopted a strong National Action Plan on Climate Change. …I believe that technology is a critical transformation agent for both mitigation and adaptation. Collaborative R&D between developing and developed country institutions for affordable advanced clean technologies as well as their transfer, deployment and diffusion in developing countries needs to be expedited. – Prime Minister of India at the Intervention of Major Economies Meeting of Climate Change, Hokkaido, Japan on July 9, 2008.”

The Summit, this year will therefore, focus on Climate Change Challenges, Energy Efficiency, Coal based Clean Options, Oil & Gas based, Clean Options and Clean Technologies.