Renewable energy is our collective interest: Jaishankar at CARICOM meet

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar who co-chaired the fourth India-CARICOM ministerial meeting on Saturday emphasised the need for “collective interest” in the field of renewable energy amid climate change.

Delivering opening remarks at the meeting, Jaishankar said, “Energy, renewable energy particularly, is our collective interest. Many of you are members of the International Solar Alliance. I think 13 members are there from the CARICOM. I believe it’s been of some help in capacity building, in some cases even funding. I’ll be again open to taking that help. Regarding capacity building as a whole, we have for many years now, under what we call, the ITEC programs.”