Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry to arrive in India on 3-day visit

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 11

Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to India from September 12-14 to engage with international counterparts on efforts to address the climate crisis, said a US government news release. 

Kerry will meet government counterparts and private sector leaders to discuss efforts to raise global climate ambition and speed India’s clean energy transition. 

During his visit, the US and India will launch the Climate Action and Finance Mobilisation Dialogue, one of the two main tracks of the US-India Agenda 2030 Partnership that President Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at the Leaders Summit on Climate in April 2021.

The Special Envoy’s travel will bolster the US bilateral and multilateral climate efforts ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which will be held in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12.