NET Zero Innovation Virtual Centre: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 1 May 2023

NET Zero Innovation Virtual Centre

✓It is a joint initiative of India and the UK to enhance their cooperation on science and technology, especially on Climate change and environmental issues .

✓It will provide a platform to bring stakeholders from both countries together to work on some of the focus areas such as the decarbonisation of manufacturing process and transport systems, and green hydrogen as a renewable source.

✓It will support the goal of achieving net zero emissions balancing the amount of greenhouse gases emitted and removed from the atmosphere.

✓It will also facilitate knowledge exchange, innovation, research and development, capacity building, and policy dialogue between the two countries.