Glasgow: John Kerry is everywhere and the UN climate summit is moving forward.
President Joe BidenKerry’s envoy in talks in Glasgow draws steam from side talks with US rivals China and Russia that painstakingly scrutinize for common ground on the climate to news conferences praising progress. Kerry launched the project, rewarding CEOs and bankers with high-level face time and praise for their efforts to cut emissions. The slender messenger smiles for a photo with Brazil’s indigenous women, their feathered headdresses barely reaching their chins.
At the end of the first two weeks of the United Nations climate summit, Kerry’s voice turned hoarse with her mission to rally global climate efforts, which are threatening to hit the wall at home.
“The alternative is you do nothing, you say nothing,” Kerry told reporters at the summit. “You have no promises, you have no commitments. And you are sitting there, waiting for the deluge.”
He was talking of a climate fight that was becoming more urgent, as the burning of fossil fuels accelerates global warming, and becomes more catastrophic, as the United States’ own wildly swinging politics under Biden’s Climate affects efforts and again threatens the global momentum on the matter.
To coincide with the summit, the US House on Friday passed a stalled infrastructure bill that includes some key measures to cut US emissions.
But Biden’s backward political support, and Republican upsets in last week’s off-year elections, are adding to the uncertainty that the US administration can deliver on some of Biden’s biggest climate promises.
Kerry, President Barack Obama’s secretary of state and a former senator, returned to serve as Biden’s climate envoy after President Donald Trump.
Jobs has apologized for the global disruption that Trump, who mocks the science behind climate change, when he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris climate accord that Kerry helped negotiate. Scientists say the ground lost during the Trump administration gives the last chance this decade to keep the Earth from warming to more frightening levels.
Carey’s job is now part diplomat, part cheerleader. At the Glasgow climate conference, as in the months before, Kerry talks to countries and businesses to undercut every possible slew of new climate efforts – then pushes for more. While America’s return to global climate talks has helped allies make some deep cuts in emissions, the world’s other big polluters besides the United States – China, Russia, India and others – are short on emissions promises, at best. .
At 77 years old, Kerry is running only his latest campaign in a decades-long personal battle to curb the fossil fuel emissions that are warming the Earth.
Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International and a veteran of climate negotiations, said Kerry “brings a deep knowledge of what is at stake.” “He brings a long-term relationship to these talks and a spirit of cooperation.” Still, she adds, he “becomes limited by what’s happening in the house.”
If “there isn’t a credible U.S. plan to meet the goals and phase out fossil fuels, there’s only so much, only so much, it can get here,” Morgan said.
Conservative groups alienate Carey online, shun social media out of her wealth – in Glasgow she introduced a speaker on Martha’s Vineyard as her neighbor – and considered a love for jetting around the world.
Kerry’s intent on diplomacy to push and pull coal-loving China into rapid emissions cuts also makes him publicly contrast with Biden and some of Biden’s top officials, who have become vocal critics of China, the world’s top carbon polluter. went. America is the second worst.
Biden’s word of separation came as the Chinese president joined more than 100 other world leaders here on his way out of the Glasgow summit last week. Xi Jinping He had made a “big mistake” in not attending.
“He has lost the ability to influence people around the world,” Biden said.
The veteran observer of the global climate talks speaks in favor of Kerry’s calm work as climate ambassador.
Thom Woodruff, a researcher on US-China Climate Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said Biden’s former Secretary of State appointment made countries like China “really sit down and notice how important it is to … Biden administration diplomacy and their climate.” Was going to keep the action at home.”
While Chinese leaders publicly scold and rebuke members of the Biden administration, China’s own veteran climate diplomat, ze zhenha, told reporters in Glasgow that he calculated that he had spoken to Kerry 23 times in Kerry’s current state.
When a news site ran a caricature showing an exaggeratedly chin Kerry, with one hand resting on the shoulder of an equally exaggerated round-faced Zee, and the other hand gracing Earth and its future, Kerry cartooned framed it and presented it to Zee.
At Climate Summit, Kerry’s height makes him an easy spot among thousands of climate advocates, government officials, and journalists at the summit site, which stretches for more than half a mile (close to a kilometer). It is a mix of permanent and temporary structures along Glasgow’s River Clyde that feels like an airport terminal surrounded by a military forward-operating base.
Kerry appears patient and courteous with random advocates and journalists from around the world who approach him at the summit.
Ahead of the summit, climate activists protesting hunger at the gate of the White House impatiently filmed their phone call to another Biden administration official as he approached them on the need for climate action.
In contrast, Carey went out and talked to young climate strikers, telling them about his environmental activism in his youth.
Kerry’s first reason after returning from fighting in the Vietnam War was activism for the first Earth Day in 1970, he says. His wife, Teresa Heinz, says they met on Earth Day later in 1990.
In 2015, his work in climate negotiations, and the Trust Xie Obama’s negotiators, including Kerry, helped seal a global climate agreement, with more than 190 countries committing to action to cut climate emissions.
The irreversible damage caused by global warming was all the more apparent by November 2016, when Kerry made his final visit as Obama’s secretary of state, becoming the highest-ranking US official to visit Antarctica.
The US presidential election had brought victory to Trump, who had already promised to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord and soon return US climate efforts to office.
Kerry crept up in boots over the frozen sea, confronted a curious penguin and talked to American scientists there.
Scientists told them that the South Pole had some of the purest air in the world, but it was also heavily polluted with coal and petroleum waste. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet was melting, breaking up and floating in the ocean from the bottom in warmer waters.
It was “some of the most amazing wilderness,” Kerry recalled to the Associated Press last month, and it was “mixed with the negative effects of man.”
President Joe BidenKerry’s envoy in talks in Glasgow draws steam from side talks with US rivals China and Russia that painstakingly scrutinize for common ground on the climate to news conferences praising progress. Kerry launched the project, rewarding CEOs and bankers with high-level face time and praise for their efforts to cut emissions. The slender messenger smiles for a photo with Brazil’s indigenous women, their feathered headdresses barely reaching their chins.
At the end of the first two weeks of the United Nations climate summit, Kerry’s voice turned hoarse with her mission to rally global climate efforts, which are threatening to hit the wall at home.
“The alternative is you do nothing, you say nothing,” Kerry told reporters at the summit. “You have no promises, you have no commitments. And you are sitting there, waiting for the deluge.”
He was talking of a climate fight that was becoming more urgent, as the burning of fossil fuels accelerates global warming, and becomes more catastrophic, as the United States’ own wildly swinging politics under Biden’s Climate affects efforts and again threatens the global momentum on the matter.
To coincide with the summit, the US House on Friday passed a stalled infrastructure bill that includes some key measures to cut US emissions.
But Biden’s backward political support, and Republican upsets in last week’s off-year elections, are adding to the uncertainty that the US administration can deliver on some of Biden’s biggest climate promises.
Kerry, President Barack Obama’s secretary of state and a former senator, returned to serve as Biden’s climate envoy after President Donald Trump.
Jobs has apologized for the global disruption that Trump, who mocks the science behind climate change, when he pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris climate accord that Kerry helped negotiate. Scientists say the ground lost during the Trump administration gives the last chance this decade to keep the Earth from warming to more frightening levels.
Carey’s job is now part diplomat, part cheerleader. At the Glasgow climate conference, as in the months before, Kerry talks to countries and businesses to undercut every possible slew of new climate efforts – then pushes for more. While America’s return to global climate talks has helped allies make some deep cuts in emissions, the world’s other big polluters besides the United States – China, Russia, India and others – are short on emissions promises, at best. .
At 77 years old, Kerry is running only his latest campaign in a decades-long personal battle to curb the fossil fuel emissions that are warming the Earth.
Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International and a veteran of climate negotiations, said Kerry “brings a deep knowledge of what is at stake.” “He brings a long-term relationship to these talks and a spirit of cooperation.” Still, she adds, he “becomes limited by what’s happening in the house.”
If “there isn’t a credible U.S. plan to meet the goals and phase out fossil fuels, there’s only so much, only so much, it can get here,” Morgan said.
Conservative groups alienate Carey online, shun social media out of her wealth – in Glasgow she introduced a speaker on Martha’s Vineyard as her neighbor – and considered a love for jetting around the world.
Kerry’s intent on diplomacy to push and pull coal-loving China into rapid emissions cuts also makes him publicly contrast with Biden and some of Biden’s top officials, who have become vocal critics of China, the world’s top carbon polluter. went. America is the second worst.
Biden’s word of separation came as the Chinese president joined more than 100 other world leaders here on his way out of the Glasgow summit last week. Xi Jinping He had made a “big mistake” in not attending.
“He has lost the ability to influence people around the world,” Biden said.
The veteran observer of the global climate talks speaks in favor of Kerry’s calm work as climate ambassador.
Thom Woodruff, a researcher on US-China Climate Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said Biden’s former Secretary of State appointment made countries like China “really sit down and notice how important it is to … Biden administration diplomacy and their climate.” Was going to keep the action at home.”
While Chinese leaders publicly scold and rebuke members of the Biden administration, China’s own veteran climate diplomat, ze zhenha, told reporters in Glasgow that he calculated that he had spoken to Kerry 23 times in Kerry’s current state.
When a news site ran a caricature showing an exaggeratedly chin Kerry, with one hand resting on the shoulder of an equally exaggerated round-faced Zee, and the other hand gracing Earth and its future, Kerry cartooned framed it and presented it to Zee.
At Climate Summit, Kerry’s height makes him an easy spot among thousands of climate advocates, government officials, and journalists at the summit site, which stretches for more than half a mile (close to a kilometer). It is a mix of permanent and temporary structures along Glasgow’s River Clyde that feels like an airport terminal surrounded by a military forward-operating base.
Kerry appears patient and courteous with random advocates and journalists from around the world who approach him at the summit.
Ahead of the summit, climate activists protesting hunger at the gate of the White House impatiently filmed their phone call to another Biden administration official as he approached them on the need for climate action.
In contrast, Carey went out and talked to young climate strikers, telling them about his environmental activism in his youth.
Kerry’s first reason after returning from fighting in the Vietnam War was activism for the first Earth Day in 1970, he says. His wife, Teresa Heinz, says they met on Earth Day later in 1990.
In 2015, his work in climate negotiations, and the Trust Xie Obama’s negotiators, including Kerry, helped seal a global climate agreement, with more than 190 countries committing to action to cut climate emissions.
The irreversible damage caused by global warming was all the more apparent by November 2016, when Kerry made his final visit as Obama’s secretary of state, becoming the highest-ranking US official to visit Antarctica.
The US presidential election had brought victory to Trump, who had already promised to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord and soon return US climate efforts to office.
Kerry crept up in boots over the frozen sea, confronted a curious penguin and talked to American scientists there.
Scientists told them that the South Pole had some of the purest air in the world, but it was also heavily polluted with coal and petroleum waste. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet was melting, breaking up and floating in the ocean from the bottom in warmer waters.
It was “some of the most amazing wilderness,” Kerry recalled to the Associated Press last month, and it was “mixed with the negative effects of man.”
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