John Kerry, is set to visit India on a five-day trip to discuss climate and clean energy. He will meet with senior government officials in Delhi and attend the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministers Meeting in Chennai.
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Some recent diplomatic events, many of them flowing from shifting global power equations, hold much significance for India
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Some recent diplomatic events, many of them flowing from shifting global power equations, hold much significance for India. The overlapping visits by Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and US special presidential climate envoy John Kerry raised eyebrows. India frets over the growing Russian proximity to the China-Pakistan axis. Mr Kerry met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss India’s Paris Agreement commitments. But Mr Lavrov could not, either due to Mr Modi’s preoccupation with the Assembly elections or India conveying a subtle snub as Mr Lavrov, unmindful of Indian sentiments, combined his Indian trip with one to Pakistan. Also, when Russia hosted an intra-Afghan meeting, India was not invited.
US special climate envoy John Kerry to visit India this month
Kerry would travel for consultations on increasing climate ambition ahead of US President Joe Biden s Leaders Summit on Climate from April 22-23
PTI | April 1, 2021 | Updated 09:05 IST
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abu Dhabi, New Delhi and Dhaka from April 1-9 to discuss the climate crisis, the State Department has announced.
Kerry would travel for consultations on increasing climate ambition ahead of US President Joe Biden s Leaders Summit on Climate from April 22-23 and the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year, the State Department said on Wednesday.