India, Sept. 12 -- BRICS leaders at the New Delhi Summit adopted a photovoltaic industry action plan and broader clean-tech agenda, linking solar manufacturing, hydrogen, smart grids and energy storage with industrial development.

The declaration stresses value addition in critical minerals, resilient supply chains, climate finance, and a just energy transition that balances rising clean energy deployment with continued fossil fuel use in emerging economies.

BRICS leaders on September 12 adopted a Terms of Reference and Action Plan for the BRICS Photovoltaic Industry Working Group and called for "value addition and economic diversification" in resource-rich countries as part of a wider push to strengthen clean technology manufacturing a...