India, China leading global clean energy transition: COP30 President

COP30 president Andre Corrêa do Lago has praised India and China for playing a transformative role in the global energy transition, saying both countries had embraced climate action "in a very clear way" and were driving down the cost of clean technologies worldwide.

Addressing a press conference at the opening of COP30 in Belem, Brazil, do Lago said China had "embraced the agenda in an extraordinary way" by combining scale, technology and affordability, three crucial ingredients that had accelerated the world's progress towards cleaner energy systems. He said both China and India were shaping the future of the global energy transition.

"China has very advanced technology and has a scale that can only be compared to India. And India is somehow doing the same, because they also have brilliant companies and engineers and incredible people. They are going in the same direction," he said in response to a question on China's contribution to the fight against climate change. Do Lago emphasised China's leadership in clean technology manufacturing, particularly in EVs.