LeadIT (Leadership for Industry Transition) Initiative
Updated: 25 Oct 2025
Ministry:
Ministry of Environment, Forest And Climate Change
Beneficiary:
Miscellaneous
Overview
LeadIT is a global initiative launched by India and Sweden in 2019 to guide energy-intensive industries toward a low-carbon economy. It brings together countries and companies committed to achieving net-zero emissions in line with the Paris Agreement.
- Background: Launched at the UN Climate Action Summit, 2019
- Aim: To help guide the world's hard to-decarbonize and energy-intensive sectors/industries toward the low-carbon economy.
- Launched by: India and Sweden together with some other countries.
- Supported by: World Economic Forum
- LeadIT gathers countries and companies that are committed to action to achieve the Paris Agreement.
- LeadIT members subscribe to the notion that energy-intensive industry can and must progress on low-carbon pathways, aiming to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.