Joe Biden: Climate cooperation to become a key pillar of US-India relations

Joe Biden: Climate cooperation to become a key pillar of US-India relations

Joe Biden: Climate cooperation to become a key pillar of US-India relations

Washington : US President Joe Biden has said he wants to make achieving climate and energy goals “a core pillar” of bilateral cooperation with India and is looking forward to work with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter.

Biden’s remarks came a day after the two countries announced a “US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership” to create stronger bilateral cooperation on actions in the current decade to meet the goals of the landmark Paris Agreement.

“I’m looking forward to working with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a new partnership to achieve our climate and energy goals, making this a core pillar of our bilateral cooperation,” Biden said in his address to the two-day virtual summit on climate change on Friday.

Joe Biden: Climate cooperation to become a key pillar of US-India relations

Joe Biden: Climate cooperation to become a key pillar of US-India relations

The partnership includes deploying 450 gigawatts of renewable power to meet the ambitious 2030 target for climate action and clean energy.

The partnership will proceed along two main tracks — the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership, co-chaired by Secretary of Energy Granholm, and the Climate Action and Finance Mobilisation Dialogue, co-chaired by Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, a joint statement said. Addressing the final session of the virtual climate summit, Biden said this was about the opportunity that addressing climate change provides.

It’s an opportunity to create millions of good-paying jobs around the world and innovate — in innovative sectors — jobs that bring greater quality of life, greater dignity to the people performing those jobs in every nation, he said. Biden also welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for carbon dioxide removal. “I’m very heartened by President Putin’s call yesterday for the world to collaborate and advanced carbon dioxide removal. And the United States looks forward to working with Russia and other countries in that endeavour,” the US President said. — PTI

Looking forward to working with Modi

“I’m looking forward to working with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a new partnership to achieve our climate and energy goals, making this a core pillar of our bilateral cooperation,” US President Joe Biden said in his address at the two-day virtual summit on climate change on Friday.

The partnership includes deploying 450 gigawatts of renewable power to meet the ambitious 2030 target for climate action and clean energy.