U.S. climate envoy John Kerry thanked Europeans on Thursday for keeping up the fight to slow global warming during the Trump administration and said the U.S. must recover lost time in the effort.
Kerry spoke remotely to an Italian climate meeting, in his first international address for the Biden administration. He said the United States was returning to the Paris climate accord with humility and ambition.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order hours after his inauguration on Wednesday, starting the process of getting the United States back into the nearly 200-country U.N. climate treaty. Countries in the accord commit to setting goals to cut climate-damaging fossil fuel emissions and to monitor and report their emissions.
Biden’s predecessor, President Donald Trump, had pulled the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement, framing his decision as “a reassertion of America’s sovereignty.” Trump’s move had struck a major blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and distanced the nation from its closest allies.
Biden has put Kerry, the secretary of state under President Barack Obama, in charge of climate and national security issues.
Kerry told the Italian summit that the United States was going back to work after four wasted years, in remarks carried by European news services. “Failure is not an option,” Kerry said.
He expressed thanks to Europe as a whole for the steps European nations have taken to cut oil, gas and coal pollution.
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the new world order in other words 666 the number of the beast the anti christ is upon us and he will show himself soon.
meanwhile his sychophents are doing his bidding in americas heartland by blinding people from the truth.
How can anyone ‘not’ despise this globalist traitor. These bloodsucking, parasitic fascists were lurking in the shadows, just waiting for the stolen election and the ‘puppet’ to be placed in office, to emerge again and reinfect our nation with their evil…
IT seems the MORE of a traitor you are, the MORE RENOWN YOU get from the media…Sickening isn’t it.
May their homes freeze with the global climate problem at hand. Whatever that may be.
John Heinz Ketchup, how are your six homes, 2 yachts and your private jet, doing for “global warming”?
Not an ounce less cof coal or oil was not burned because of the Paris CLimate agreement. In fact China turned up the heat. The only difference was that the USA was forced to pay higher oil prices and buy Russian and Iranian oil to feed their economies and terrorist ambitions forcing the USA to pay through the nose to defend ourselves and middleeast nations, so Europe would be warm in the winter. Had we burned our own oil, gas and coal, we would all be alot safer and richer in the good old USA. Trumps proved it, and the Democrats ignore it, and THE PEOPLE pay the cost of their stupidity.