On 29 April 2026, the Commerce Ministry said Piyush Goyal addressed the ‘Advancing Resilience with Climate Change’ dialogue in New Delhi, linking climate action with trade, growth and technology. He said India ranks among the top 1 to 3 G20 performers in achieving its intended nationally determined contributions and has met renewable energy goals eight years early, with 260 gigawatts already achieved. He recalled that the solar target set after 2014 was expanded from 20 gigawatts to 100 gigawatts and achieved within time, while India has now set a 500 gigawatt clean energy capacity target for 2030.
Goyal said India helped shape the consensus outcome at Paris COP21 by bringing countries at different development levels together around nationally defined pathways. He also said India is in active trade and economic partnership discussions with 12 countries and regions, including partners across Latin America, West Asia, Africa, Eurasia and Israel. It linked climate resilience to jobs, exports, innovation, startups and ease of doing business.
The minister cited structural reforms in power, especially the unified national grid under the One Nation, One Grid vision. He said grid integration helped reduce southern India’s peak-period cost disparities from up to ₹12 per unit to around ₹2.5 to ₹3 per unit by improving distribution and use of generation capacity. He also referred to expanded transmission, revived stalled projects, strong base load needs, 29 renewable-energy studies and India’s three-year national transition to LED lighting. Goyal launched CRAVIS, a climate intelligence platform developed by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, combining over 40 years of historical data with projections up to 2070 and district-level analysis across 279 indicators.