With his administration focusing on alternative sources of energy so as to reduce dependence on fossil fuel, US President Barack Obama wants to build Indo-US renewable energy partnership which would end up in benefiting not only the two countries, but also the entire world.

When Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Shyam Saran met the US President at the White House this evening at an official reception, Obama was quick to remind him the conversation he had in this regard with Manmohan Singh in London early this month.

India and the US should seek to build renewable energy partnership, Obama told Saran during the brief exchange they had at the reception hosted by the President at White House for the participants of the 17-nation major economies forum on energy and climate.

"In the very brief exchange that I had with him, he (Obama) referred to his meeting with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in London at the time of the G-20 Summit and said how encouraged and pleased he was with the exchange of views he had with the Prime Minister on that occasion, which included an exchange of views on issue of climate change and energy security," Saran told a group of Indian journalists.