The third edition of the Mission Innovation Ministerial Meet was held in Malmo, Sweden.
- Ministers and delegates from around 23 countries participated in the meeting.
- The Indian delegation was led by the Union Minister for Science, Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr Harsh Vardhan.
- The Minister and other delegates participated in several discussions with business leaders, clean energy innovators and policy makers to discuss plans, progress, country highlights etc.
- Mission innovation countries launched Mission Innovation Champions Programme to felicitate clean energy innovators.
- At the Solutions Summit, the MI 2020 Solutions booklet was launched.
- It showcased over fifty cutting-edge breakthroughs emerging from MI members investments ranging from blockchain technologies to the world’s first commercial passenger electric boat.
- A World Economic Forum White paper on public-private cooperation was also released.
- A workshop on Smart Grid was inaugurated by Dr Harsh Vardhan at Copenhagen.
- He also chaired public-private round table on Strategies on Decarbonisation through innovations in Smart Grids.
- India announced its plan of hosting MI clean energy material workshop in November 2018.
