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Mission Innovation (MI)

November 10 , 2019 1760 days 837 0
  • The Union Minister of Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Health and Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the Mission Innovation (MI) Face to Face meeting of Innovation Challenges (IC) at Delhi.
  • The objective of the meeting is to take stock of the deliverables by MI and its plans until 2020.
  • Another major objective is to identify major gap areas in Clean Energy Innovation and how to address these beyond 2020 to make MI more impactful.
  • India plans to increase renewable energy capacity to much beyond 175 GW by 2022.

About

  • Prime Minister coined the name Mission Innovation (MI).
  • It was launched on 30 November 2015 by 20 countries during COP-21 of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
  • MI currently comprises of 24 member countries and the European Commission.

  • The member countries have committed to double Government funding on clean energy research and development over five years.
  • The mission will accelerate research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) in technology areas that would fight against climate change.

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