Leadership Group for Industry Transition
Also called: LeadIT · Topic: Climate Change: Causes, Evidence and the Global Response · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
The Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) is a group of countries and companies working together as a public-private partnership, meaning governments and businesses join forces. India and Sweden launched it in 2019 at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, with support from the World Economic Forum. It works to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors, which are heavy industries such as steel, cement and transport where emissions are very hard to cut. It does this by building project partnerships, testing whether new low-carbon technologies can work, and sharing knowledge. It is a voluntary club with no legal force, so it helps India get the technology it needs to meet its 2070 net-zero target, but it does not fund projects itself.
Example
At COP28 in Dubai (2023), India and Sweden launched LeadIT 2.0 for 2024–26, along with the India-Sweden Industry Transition Partnership. Under this partnership, Indian groups such as the National Council for Cement and Building Materials and the IITs work with Swedish firms on low-carbon steel and cement projects in India. LeadIT 3.0 is due to launch at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, in November 2026.
Don't confuse with
- International Solar Alliance: India co-founded it with France, not Sweden, at COP21 (2015). It works on spreading solar energy, not on cleaning up heavy industry.
- India-Sweden Industry Transition Partnership: this is only the two-country project track inside LeadIT. LeadIT itself is the wider group of many countries and companies.