PM Modi engages with his counterparts from Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Finland

Copenhagen, May 4: On the sidelines of the 2nd India Nordic Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Norway Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Iceland Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, Sweden Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, and Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin, in Copenhagen.

 

 

 

 

India and Norway reviewed the ongoing activities in bilateral relations and discussed future areas of cooperation. Prime Minister highlighted that Norway's skills and India's scope provided natural complementarities. Both leaders discussed the potential for deepening engagement in areas like Blue Economy, renewable energy, green hydrogen, solar and wind projects, green shipping, fisheries, water management, rainwater harvesting, space cooperation, long term Infrastructure investment, health and culture.

 

 

 

 

 

At the same time, both leaders from India and Iceland discussed ways to further strengthen economic cooperation especially in the sectors of geothermal energy, Blue Economy, Arctic, renewable energy, fisheries, food processing, education including digital universities, and culture. Geothermal energy, in particular, is an area where Iceland has special expertise, and both sides stressed on collaboration between universities of both countries in this sector.

 

In today’s meeting, the two leaders of India and Sweden reviewed the progress made in their bilateral partnership. They also expressed satisfaction at the progress made by the Lead IT initiative. This was a India-Sweden joint global initiative to set up a Leadership Group on Industry Transition (LeadIT) in Sep 2019 at the UN Climate Action Summit to help guide the world’s heaviest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting industries towards the low-carbon economy. Its membership has now grown to 35 with 16 countries and 19 companies.

 

 

Both the leaders of India and Finland noted that areas like sustainability, digitalization and cooperation in science and education were important pillars of the bilateral partnership. They discussed opportunities to expand cooperation in the fields of new and emerging technologies like AI, quantum computing, future mobile technologies, clean technologies and smart grids.