 European Union President Ursula van der Leyen is in India to discuss how the union and the country can join forces to combat climate change through clean innovative technologies. She congratulated the South Asian country on its ambitious target, achieving 50 percent of energy coming from renewables by 2030. After a tree planting ceremony in Gorongran, Haryana, she spoke to members and students of the Energy Resource Institute, which specializes in energy and sustainable development about how much the EU and India had in common, including the damage caused by climate change. I think India and the European Union have a lot in common. I've looked at your goals to have 50 percent of energy coming from renewables in 2030. This is a very ambitious goal. Congratulations to that. We share the idea that we really have to look into solar energy, wind energy, biomass, hydropower, green hydrogen, a big topic, geothermal. So these are the ingredients for success. I've read that the month of March was the hottest here in India since the last 122 years, and we also have the experience of the huge damage of climate change with horrible flooding, deadly flooding, last summer in Europe, hurricanes in a region where we never, ever, ever had this in the European Union, but also droughts, wildfires. I think the environment protecting the climate has a lot to do with innovation. This is also what we have in common.