Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 8: Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Atul Sobti, Director General, Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) and Dr Julie Reviere, Country Director, GIZ, a German public-benefit federal enterprise, for supporting the PSEs in playing a critical role in the national agenda of climate change mitigation.
MV Iyer, Director Business Development, GAIL and Chairman, SCOPE Committee on Sustainable Development, Dr Ashish Chaturvedi, Director, Climate Change, GIZ India, other senior officials of GIZ, SCOPE and Public Sector were present during the signing.
While the earlier association was more centric towards building capacities in PSEs, the present MoU signed by SCOPE and GIZ seeks to explore and support implementation of studies and pilots in Public Sector Enterprises on climate and sustainable development related issues. Signed virtually, the collaboration shall engage in a series of activities in the areas of SDGs, carbon markets and climate finance amongst other issues pertaining to climate change mitigation.