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Treasury estimates that the lack of electricity supply reduces GDP growth by some 1 percentage point.
Oil prices rose on Tuesday trading after news of the downed Russian fighter jet in Syria.
Putin will discuss Syria with Jordanian monarch Abdullah when he visits Sochi on Tuesday.
Despite the US rhetoric, in Asia, there is a rising awareness that China-led initiatives are critical to the region as advanced economies will be mired in stagnation for years to
Most of the clean energy investment came from the global south and not from the rich club of the OECD countries.
Emerging markets now comprise 40 per cent of the global economy.
The two sides had reached an agreement during talks with China’s top economic planning agency, the NDRC.
Ties are still "fragile", Li said after Abe's comments that he will consider sending troops to back up US operations in the South China Sea.
Several extremist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda in Sub-Saharan Africa worked together in the Mali attack.
China is stepping up engagement with ASEAN even as the US repeatedly asserts its seriousness about the Asia Pivot policy.