John Kerry to visit India in April ahead of Biden’s climate summit

The Summit’s guest list is indicative of the priority the administration places on climate action and clean technology .

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a virtual ‘Leaders Summit on Climate’ on April 22 and 23, with 40 world leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry will visit India in early April in the run up to this meeting, sources told The Hindu . Other guests at the climate summit will include President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, both of whom have a challenging relationship with Mr Biden. With America’s re-entry into the Paris Agreement on climate, the summit seeks to put Mr Biden’s stamp on the fight against climate change, after the U.S largely took itself out of the international dialogue on climate action when Mr Trump, climate change sceptic, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. The U.S. summit will highlight the urgent need to address climate change and the economic benefit of doing so, the White House said in a statement on Friday. It is also a prelude to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) which will be held in Glasgow in November, the White House said. The White House also sought to link climate action to better paying jobs and advancing the technological frontier — one of the themes of the Biden campaign.