Istanbul to Goa: G20 nations avoid uniform approach in energy transition

Countries rarely agree on global policy, causing differences that have lingered on

Ministers of the 19 nations and the European Union that form the G20 bloc, which has India as its president this year, can’t agree on the diplomatic language to use about the Ukraine war. The energy sector is the only other issue where there are more substantive differences.

On labour, education, health, and even finance there is relative unanimity. But coming out of the final leg of discussions on energy in Goa last week, India’s power minister R K Singh said there were seven paragraphs of dissensions: the most among all G20 ministerial groups. The dissensions were on supposedly easy-to-reach