John Kerry visit to India: Dates, schedule, purpose, meetings, other deets
New Delhi, July 25: United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry is slated to arrive on a five-day visit to India beginning Tuesday, days after returning from China.
The envoy will first travel to Delhi to meet the senior government officials, after that he will visit Chennai to attend the meeting.
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John Kerry, the climate expertise of the United States is all set to attend the fourth and last G20 Environment and Climate sustainability Ministers (ECSM) meeting of 2023 from July 25 to 29.
The purpose for visit of US envoy is to advance shared objectives on clean energy and climate between both the countries. Kerry will meet with senior government officials to advance shared objectives on renewable and clean energy,climate, deployment of zero-emission buses and diversify clean energy supply chains.
The fourth and final ECSWG meeting would be followed by the ECSM meeting on July 28, which John Kerry would attend.
The primary agenda of the 3rd ECSWG meeting was the detailed discussions on the draft Ministerial Communique which entailed constructive discussions and deliberations on priority areas. The meeting ended in a discussion mode on the Communique, to be further deliberated upon and refined in the virtual meetings scheduled over the next few weeks, as a run-up to the 4th and final ECSWG meeting to be held in Chennai from July 26- 27.
US climate envoy John Kerry ended his four-day visit to China on July 19 and is now ready to make his visit to India to attend the G20 meeting of 2023.
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Kerry appeared buoyed that the world’s two biggest polluters had restarted discussions, which had been frozen for a year because of strained relations over Taiwan, trade and other issues. He insisted he was not disappointed in the outcome, noting that just talking marked progress,
- With inputs from agencies
