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US environment expert visits Kolkata

| | May 13, 2015, at 02:31 am
Kolkata, May 12 (IBNS) U.S. Consulate Kolkata hosted U.S. environmental speaker Jennifer Turner in Kolkata on Tuesday as part of the U.S. Mission to India’s strategic speakers program, bringing independent American experts to engage with their Indian counterparts.

Turner is the Director of the China Environment Forum at the U.S. based Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.

In Kolkata, Turner visited the Indian Institute of Management’s Center for Development and Environment Policy (CDEP) and shared her insights on the broader issue of water-energy-food confrontations in China, U.S. and India. 

Turner also highlighted some of the impressive shifts that are occurring in China to address the country’s pollution challenges. 

The discussion was followed by an engaging interactive session with a group of senior faculty members and research scholars. 

Later in the evening, Turner participated in a program at the Indian Chamber of Commerce’s Environment Forum and made a presentation on Global Choke Point: Water-Energy-Food Confrontations in China, U.S. and India to a diverse group of business leaders and foreign policy experts.

Jennifer Turner was accompanied by Assistant Public Affairs Officer Greg Pardo of the U.S. Consulate General. 

Speaking on the sidelines of the event, Pardo said, “Climate change is one of the most urgent, complex, and far-reaching challenges of our times.  The United States looks forward to working closely with India to overcome these challenges and find solutions.”
 

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