India and Finland renewed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on environmental cooperation, aiming to strengthen collaboration on pollution control, waste management, the circular economy and climate action.
India’s Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, and Finland’s Minister of Climate and the Environment, Sari Multala, signed the renewed agreement in New Delhi, according to an official statement issued by the government.
The MoU extends a framework first signed in 2020 and will support continued cooperation through knowledge-sharing and technology partnerships on a range of environmental priorities.
In a post on social media platform X, Yadav said he was pleased that the two countries had renewed the agreement, noting that it would deepen cooperation on pollution prevention and control, waste management, climate change, forests and natural resource management.
Under the renewed pact, India and Finland will collaborate on issues including prevention and control of air and water pollution, remediation of contaminated soil, and improved waste management practices such as handling hazardous waste, waste-to-energy solutions and recycling.
The agreement also covers cooperation on circular economy approaches and low-carbon solutions in the use of natural resources and forests, as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Other areas of cooperation include environmental and forest monitoring, including data management, and the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal resources alongside integrated water resources management.
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Officials from both countries also discussed opportunities for deeper collaboration on the circular economy through focused dialogue and joint initiatives, the statement said.