The G7 Context
- PM Modi will join the G7 Summit at Evian-les-Bains, France (at France's invitation).
Key agenda - economic power, technological advantage, development, West Asia, Ukraine, climate finance, and industrial policy.
India's Role at G7 - 5 Key Areas
1. Critical Minerals
- India and G7 interests converge on critical minerals lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth supplies. Both seek to reduce supply-chain dependence on China for clean energy and defence technologies. India's market size and processing capacity make it "an important node in emerging mineral partnerships."
2. Artificial Intelligence
- AI raises questions of governance, standards, safety, and technological leadership. It is also becoming an energy issue (data centres and advanced computing drive electricity demand). India's experience with Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) gives it a credible voice in shaping AI governance debates.
3. Energy Security & Clean Transition
- India embodies the "duality" of the energy transition expanded renewable deployment at scale while hydrocarbons still underpin growth. Fuel choices guided by affordability and security of supply, not geopolitical pressures. India as a major energy consumer can speak with authority from experience.
4. Economic Security & Global South
- India's interest lies in resilience that broadens options rather than narrows them. Security pursued through exclusion produces the fragmentation it seeks to prevent. Advanced economies are resorting to forced trade: selective use of leverage, sanctions, and coercion. This creates a growing gap between free-trade principles they profess and market-distorting policies they practise.
5. Development & Climate Finance
- Developed countries agreed at Baku (COP29, 2024) to mobilise at least $300 billion annually by 2035. "Even that falls well short of what is needed, while much arrives as loans, not grants." India must recall the principle of CBDR (Common But Differentiated Responsibilities) while sharing experience in matching climate ambition with development priorities.
⇒ India should use the G7 to push for inclusive AI governance standards (building on DPI experience); critical minerals partnerships that include processing capacity building in the Global South; grants-based climate finance not loans; challenge CBAM as a WTO-inconsistent trade barrier while offering to cooperate on decarbonisation.
- Basic information about g7 – it is an intergovernmental forum of the world’s most advanced economies .
- Countries- USA ,Italy,Canada,Uk,Germany,France ,Japan
