India Infrastructure Partnership

The challenge

The defining challenge for India over coming decades is to ensure that its economic growth keeps pace with its expanding population. To meet this challenge, India – like all other countries – will need to recalibrate its growth model, decoupling it from carbon. The government of India recognises this, committing to reduce the country’s carbon intensity by 20-25% on 2005 levels by 2020.

India’s ability to achieve this goal hinges on the future of its infrastructure – the roads, electrical grids and telecommunication systems which shape the country’s economic life, and so its carbon behaviour. It is estimated that 80% of India’s built environment of 2030 still needs to be constructed.

The project’s aims and its partners

The India Infrastructure Partnership, born out of the Global Leadership & Technology Exchange (GLTE), aims to:

  • bring together business leaders and policy-makers to find practical, profitable and innovative solutions to India’s infrastructure needs
  • heighten understanding of what it takes to build public-private partnerships capable of unlocking and accelerating low-carbon growth
  • “uncover” new approaches to the low-carbon challenge

The strength of the India Infrastructure Partnership is in the commitment of its five current partners: DNV, Ericsson, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Sons and Telenor. Together with Xyntéo, these partners work under the leadership of the Partnership’s two eminent co-chairmen: Dr Jamshed Irani, former Executive Director of Tata Sons, and Michael Treschow, Chairman of Unilever.

Where we are now

Xyntéo is working with its partners to identify and develop collaborative projects that drive low-carbon growth in the infrastructure sector.

Our roundtable meeting in New Delhi in October 2011 brought together leading figures in the infrastructure sector to discuss the key drivers and barriers to the development of low-carbon infrastructure in India. To read more about the roundtable and view the programme click here.

The next roundtable will be held in New Delhi on 20-21 September 2012. For more information about the rountable please send an email to contact@xynteo.com.