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"Welcome PM Modi's Clean Energy Focus Despite Covid Crisis": US Official "Welcome PM Modi's Clean Energy Focus Despite Covid Crisis": US Official Testifying before a Congressional committee on Thursday, Jonathan Pershing, a senior advisor to the Special Envoy on Climate Change John Kerry said the US and India are committed partners on climate. In April, they signed "US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership" (File) Washington: The United States welcomes the continued focus of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on driving a clean energy transformation in his country despi...

A recent study shows the risk climate change poses to China-India relations, but also how the two powers can cooperate to mitigate the impact.

A battle of words between top Russian and U.S. diplomats last week is the latest sign of rising tensions between superpowers racing to seize Arctic resources made more accessible by climate change. Ministers gathering in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik for a meeting of the Arctic Council weren’t due to discuss security. But the issue dominated conversations on the sidelines after Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov declared ahead of the summit that the Arctic “is our land and our waters.” “We are especially concerned with what’s going on close to our ...

Ministers gathering in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik for a meeting of the Arctic Council last week weren’t due to discuss security. But the issue dominated conversations on the sidelines after Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov declared ahead of the summit that the Arctic “is our land and our waters.”

By Laura Millan Lombrana (Bloomberg) — A battle of words between top Russian and U.S. diplomats this week is the latest sign of rising tensions between superpowers racing to seize Arctic resources made more accessible by climate change.  Ministers gathering in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik for a meeting of the Arctic Council weren’t due to discuss security. But the issue dominated conversations on the sidelines after Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov declared ahead of the summit that the Arctic “is our land and our waters.” “We are especially concerned with what...