“Every one of us needs to redo our method of delivering power to homes and businesses. “So, this is a moment that is unbelievably exciting.”Īlong with the energy transition, Mr Kerry said there is also an opportunity for big economic transition that “will be as big as the Industrial Revolution”. Our goal is zero carbon in our power sector, and our utilities have bought into that as they are in other parts of the world. Mr Kerry said big business had invested hundreds of billions of dollars to shape a more sustainable future.

He said that “75 per cent of new electricity in the United States of America that was coming online in the last five or six years, has all been renewables”. The international treaty on climate change was adopted by nearly every nation in 2015.īut Mr Kerry struck a more optimistic note over the US push towards renewable energy.

He went negative and pulled out of the Paris Agreement.” “Those years were blown by a president of our country who was so ignorant about this subject and he just did nothing,” he said. He took aim at Donald Trump, US president between 20, accusing him of damaging policies towards climate change. The question that is outstanding is, will we get there in time to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis?” Warning that the world is racing against time in mitigating climate change, he said, “We will get to a low-carbon, net-zero world. Nothing that we are proposing to do is based on politics or ideology it is based on mathematics and physics, and science, which we all went to school to learn.” Race against time to protect planet “And now the challenge is, are we going to listen to the science and respond adequately to the things that we know we have to do?

Pleased to address an audience of engaged businesses and organizations working to bend the emissions curve together #RoadtoCOP27 /SLCpJqX3R9- Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry October 6, 2022 Today’s Sustainability Summit in Abu Dhabi is an opportunity to reflect on the central role that the Middle East plays in climate action.

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