To mitigate climate change and enable green transition, IITMadras is collaborating with industry and academia in Denmark on Next Generation Fuels and Energy Systems under Indo-Danish Green Strategic Partnership. Out of the 4 projects that were announced, 3 projects are in the realm of Energy and focus on IIT Madras Energy Consortium’s vision of enabling energy transition towards a low-carbon future. The fourth project is in the realm of Water for promoting cooperation in engineering education and scientific research between Danfoss, Denmark and IITMadras. The projects were announced today at an event at IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP) in the presence of HRH the Crown Prince of Denmark, Mr. Lars Aagaard, Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities, Government of Denmark, and Mr. Freddy Svane, Ambassador of Denmark to India, among other stakeholders.
Delivering the welcome address, Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, President and Institute Professor, IITMRP, said, “Climate change is increasingly hurting the world, and very little time is left to reverse it. India’s per capita emission is ranked 103 in the world, but in absolute terms, the nation is only behind China, and the U.S. India has a large number of low-income people in the world who suffer when there are climate change-related events. India and Denmark need to go much farther than R&D collaboration and take it all the way to commercialization. Every technology needs to have a Return-on-Investment as it scales. India needs highly affordable technologies as it has a low per-capita income.”
Danfoss
IIT Madras Research Park
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