Rijiju quotes PM Modi on sharing India's green energy wins with the world
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India's renewable energy ambitions belong not just to India — they belong to humanity. That was the message Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered at the Bharat RE Summit 2026, as quoted by Union Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday, 2 November 2026, underscoring New Delhi's intent to export its green-energy playbook to the developing world.
Sharing PM Modi's words in Hindi, Rijiju posted: 'भारत के इनोवेशन, भारत के अनुभव, हम चाहते हैं कि इसका लाभ पूरी मानवता को मिले।' — 'India's innovations, India's experiences — we want the entire human race to benefit from them. Our feeling about green energy is exactly the same. India's successes in this sector will be useful to many countries of the world.'From domestic milestone to global model
The statement is rooted in a decade of hard numbers. Since 2015, India co-anchored the International Solar Alliance with France, a coalition designed specifically to channel solar solutions toward sun-rich but capital-poor nations. By COP26 in 2021, Modi had placed a headline pledge on the table: 500 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2070. The Bharat RE Summit appears to be the latest stage on which India is converting those pledges into a diplomatic proposition.
The framing — India's wins as a public good — is not accidental. It mirrors the South-South cooperation logic that New Delhi has refined across multilateral settings, most visibly during its G20 presidency, when climate finance and technology transfer for the Global South were centrepiece agenda items. The renewable energy sector is the sharpest illustration of this strategy: solar module costs that have collapsed, wind capacity that has surged, and grid-management experience that smaller economies cannot easily replicate on their own.
Why the developing world is listening
For scores of nations in Africa, South-East Asia, and the Pacific, the obstacle to clean energy is rarely political will — it is cost, capacity, and technical know-how. India's pitch is that it has navigated exactly those barriers at scale, and can offer a template. The Prime Minister's language at the summit — 'many countries of the world' will benefit — signals that any technology-sharing or financing frameworks under discussion are aimed well beyond India's immediate neighbourhood.
Formal agreements or outcomes from the Bharat RE Summit 2026 have not yet been publicly detailed, but the diplomatic intent is unmistakable. Watch for any bilateral or multilateral commitments on solar technology transfer, concessional green financing, or joint manufacturing partnerships that may emerge from the conclave.
India is no longer just setting its own green targets — it is auditioning to be the world's renewable energy trainer. The summit is the stage; the next act is delivery.