India is confident of creating an International Biofuel Alliance, a G20 priority for New Delhi, by the time of the summit in September, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said.
Speaking to the press on the sidelines of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards on Thursday, Puri said, “Please note we are only in February. Every foreign and energy minister I have met has evinced an interest in it. As our G20 presidency unfolds, we will have an International Biofuel Alliance with all that it entails well before the summit.”
There was widespread expectation that the alliance would be formally announced at the petroleum and natural gas ministry’s flagship event,