(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Sense of Congress on climate and clean energy cooperation with India. 
Sec. 5. Statement of policy. 
Sec. 6. Purposes. 
Sec. 7. Establishment of United States-India Climate and Clean Energy Part-
nership. 
Sec. 8. Strategy for implementation of the United States-India Climate and 
Clean Energy Partnership. 
Sec. 9. Partnerships for cooperation on research and innovation for clean en-
ergy technologies. 
Sec. 10. Initiatives for technical assistance for grid improvement and energy ef-
ficiency in India. 
Sec. 11. Initiatives for generation of new renewable energy in India. 
Sec. 12. Report on promotion of State-State clean energy cooperation. 
Sec. 13. United States-India climate change risk reduction and resilience co-
operation. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) India is the second most populous country 
in the world with a population of approximately 
1,334,000,000 people and is the fifth largest econ-
omy in the world with a nominal gross domestic 
product of approximately $2,940,000,000,000. 
(2) India is among the countries most vulner-
able to climate change, with hundreds of millions of 
people susceptible to events exacerbated by climate 
change, such as the spread of infectious diseases, sea 
level rise and extreme flooding, droughts, storms, 
and landslides triggered by extreme weather. 
(3) India releases approximately 2,500,000,000 
tons (carbon dioxide equivalent) of greenhouse gases 
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annually, making it the third largest greenhouse gas 
emitter after the People’s Republic of China and the 
United States. 
(4) India is one of the largest energy markets 
in the world and is projected to be the largest source 
of global energy demand growth through 2040. In-
stalled power capacity in India more than doubled 
between 2011 and 2021. 
(5) Per capita energy consumption in India is 
relatively low among emerging economic powers. 
(6) Reliable access to power is crucial for the 
storage of vaccines and antiretroviral and other life-
saving medical drugs, as well as for the operation of 
modern lifesaving medical equipment. 
(7) Access to power can also provide improved 
information and communication technologies that 
can greatly improve health and education outcomes, 
as well as economic and commercial opportunities. 
(8) In 2000, only 43 percent of the population 
of India had access to power. That percentage more 
than doubled between 2000 and 2020, with approxi-
mately 700,000,000 people in India gaining access 
to electricity during that period. 
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(9) 
Prime 
Minister 
Narendra 
Modi 
has 
prioritized improving citizen access to electricity and 
electrifying every household in India. 
(10) The Power for All initiative of the Govern-
ment of India aims to provide electricity to all 
households in India 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 
(11) Without action, climate change threatens 
to push millions more people into poverty. Invest-
ments in clean energy offer an opportunity to curb 
climate change while combating poverty and increas-
ing capacity to respond to the impacts of climate 
change. 
(12) As of June 2020, coal makes up the larg-
est domestic source of energy supply and electricity 
generation for India. In October 2020, the Ministry 
of New and Renewable Energy reported that renew-
able energy comprises approximately 12 percent of 
energy generation in India. 
(13) India imports 80 percent of its oil needs, 
and that amount is projected to increase in the com-
ing decades due to aging oil fields and a lack of new 
oil discoveries in India. India is increasing its oil re-
fining capacity to maintain supply to meet the rising 
domestic demand for energy. 
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(14) India is projected to surpass the People’s 
Republic of China in oil consumption by 2030. 
(15) On September 22, 2020, the People’s Re-
public of China announced a pledge to achieve net 
zero carbon emissions by 2060 in its updated Na-
tionally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agree-
ment, done at Paris December 12, 2015, but given 
the need to accelerate the reduction of global emis-
sions along a 2050 timeline, that pledge is insuffi-
cient to avoid an increase of 2 degrees Celsius in the 
global average temperature. 
(16) India, in contrast, is demonstrating that 
climate action is a priority through concrete steps 
including a climate plan compatible with the goal of 
limiting global average temperature rise below 2 de-
grees Celsius. 
(17) India’s unconditional emissions target, as 
outlined in the Intended Nationally Determined Con-
tribution of India to the Paris Agreement, aims to 
reduce emissions intensity of gross domestic product 
by 33 percent to 35 percent below 2005 levels by 
2030. 
(18) In its Intended Nationally Determined 
Contribution, India has also pledged to increase the 
share of its installed electricity capacity that comes 
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from nonfossil fuel sources to 40 percent by 2030 
and 
create 
an 
additional 
2,500,000,000 
to 
3,000,000,000 tons of carbon sinks. 
(19) In 2019, Prime Minister Modi announced 
an ambitious domestic target of installing 450 
gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030. 
(20) India is among the top 5 clean energy pro-
ducers globally. Installed electricity capacity from re-
newables in India grew by 144 percent from 2014 to 
2020, and between 2014 and 2019 there was ap-
proximately $42,000,000,000 in investment in the 
renewable energy sector in India. 
(21) Numerous global funds, private equity 
firms, and multilateral finance institutions are con-
tinuing to invest billions of dollars in the growing re-
newable energy sector in India. 
(22) India leads the International Solar Alli-
ance, a 75-country initiative to which the United 
States 
does 
not 
yet 
belong, 
to 
mobilize 
$1,000,000,000,000 in solar energy investment by 
2030. 
(23) Increased ownership of appliances and 
cooling needs could lead to a doubling or even tri-
pling of energy use in India by 2040. One billion air 
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