A goat herder walks past a wind farm in Rewalkawadi, India. The country has made great progress in switching to renewables © Bloomberg In his remarks to the annual conference of the Valdai Club this autumn, President Vladimir Putin managed simultaneously to cast doubt on whether human-driven climate change is actually happening, and to assure his audience that Russia is doing everything possible to prevent it. This is also very close to the contradictory public positions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. India, however, has recently made remarkable progress in moving to renewable energy, while Russia is mostly just marking time. The reason is that India imports more than 80 per cent of its oil and more than 40 per cent of its natural gas by potentially insecure sea routes. This gives even Indian climate change deniers very strong motives of both economic advantage and national security to […]