US Deputy Assistant Secretary-Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Angela P. Aggeler, who on Saturday visited T-Hub here, underscored the significance of collaboration between start-ups in the US and India for evolving solutions to challenges posed by climate change.
While governments had a major role, it was critical to involve entrepreneurs as well. Smart entrepreneurs in both the countries could work together to approach challenges of climate change in thoughtful and innovative ways, she said.
Collaboration among the start-ups could also contribute to broadening and deepening of the Indo-US relationship. In an interaction with presspersons, after a meeting with senior executives of the incubator for tech start-ups, Ms. Aggeler recalled the agreement signed recently in California between T-Hub and I-Hubs.
A State-sponsored innovation network in the U.S., members of I-Hubs worked on climate change-related issues. Expressing appreciation of T-Hub, the senior official of the US Department of State said such facilities and the partnerships they forged with others would contribute to attracting more investment. Later, addressing the closing ceremony of a two-day conference on ‘The Future is Now: India – from COP21 to Reality’, she said to combat climate change post-Paris Agreement, it was needed to implement those commitments.
