WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has nominated the Mayor of Los Angeles and Eric Garcetti’s climate advocate to become US Ambassador to India, a Washington country saw as a key partner in its efforts to push back Chinese strength and influence.
Garcetti, a Biden loyalist who chaired a successful Biden-Harris 2020 election campaign, has served as Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013.
The White House biography accompanying the announcement of Garcetti’s nomination highlighted his role in establishing “Mayor of Bipartisan Climate” “network and in the lead more than 400 The US mayor to adopt the Paris climate agreement.
It is said that Garcetti is the C40 city seat at this time, which is described as “the world’s largest 97 network in the world takes a brave climate action,” and leads the involvement and expansion of organizations in India and its global response to Pandemic Covid-19 .
India is the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world after China and the United States, although with far lower emissions per capita than these countries.
It is under pressure from the United States and others to commit to its economic decarbonization target in 2050 .
Garcetti issued a statement that said He was “honored” to receive a nomination, which must be confirmed by the US Senate.
Garcetti is a Rhodes scholar who studies at the Oxford and the London School of Economics, and also lives and does field work on nationalism, ethnicity, and human rights in Southeast Asia and Africa White, the White House said.
He said he spent 12 years as an intelligence officer in the component of US Navy reserves, who served under the commander of the US Pacific Fleet and with a defense intelligence agency, before retiring in 2017 as Lieutenant.
Biden has tried to strengthen relations with India, especially through a quad group, which also includes Australia and Japan, all of which have concerns about China.
The White House said Biden would host the summit of the quad leader this year with a focus on infrastructure after a virtual meeting in March.
Grouping agreed at the meeting that India’s medicine maker E Ltd will produce at least one billion doses of vaccines at the end of 2022, especially for Southeast Asian countries and the Pacific.
However, India, the largest vaccine producer in the world, then hit by a disaster wave of infection and stopped the vaccine exports amid intense criticism of the efforts of domestic vaccination in Prime Minister Narendra Modi.