NEW DELHI: With rich nations lining up to be part of India’s new thrust to clean energy and sustainable development, France will also formally extend its help during the multiple bilateral meetings over the next two days here on Thursday and Friday.The French delegation, including country’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius and sustainable development and ecology minister Segolene Royal, will discuss issues concerning investment and technological support to India for its renewable energy and urban development sectors during their meetings with Union ministers including Sushma Swaraj Suresh Prabhu and Prakash Javadekar It is expected that France will offer India its help in meeting the latter’s renewable energy target which, under the Narendra Modi government, got a new push as a major tool to lead the country on low carbon growth path for tackling climate change.The Indian government had recently raised its target of solar power from 20,000 MW till 2022 to 100,000 MW till 2020 and sought foreign investment to meet this goal.French offers may come within days of similar help extended to India by the US and Germany. Both the countries had last month promised to help India meet its renewable energy goals in the next couple of years.Sources, however, said there were no big-ticket agreements\MoUs on defence and other sectors including nuclear power lined up during the bilateral meetings. Those meetings would mainly focus on issues like cooperation in the field of renewable energy and developing smart cities, they said.It is expected that big agreements on any other issues may only be on table when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits France sometime this year. “Schedule of Modi’s visit is not yet finalized,” said a French source.The visiting French delegation will also take part in the annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), organized by TERI, during February 5-7. Several French companies, from different sectors, will also take part in the Summit.France will be the host country for the next UN climate conference (COP21) in December in Paris.