U.S. to 'make good' on climate finance pledges, Kerry tells leaders

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‘We’re proud to be back. We come back with humility for the absence over the last four years and we will do everything in our power to make up for it,’ Washington’s new special climate envoy John Kerry told the virtual Climate Adaptation Summit

AMSTERDAM - The United States will “make good” on financial commitments to developing countries struggling with climate change, top U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a summit of world leaders on Monday.

He did not give details about those investments, but promised Washington would soon announce a new target for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that “meets the urgency of the challenge”.The United States has delivered only $1 billion of the $3 billion it pledged under former President Barack Obama to the U.N. Green Climate Fund, set up to help vulnerable countries transition to clean energy and adapt to a warmer future.

Separately, Chinese President Xi Jinping, at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum, said that meeting the targets he announced in September – to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 - would “require tremendous hard work from China”.

 

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This is what I expected Obama et al to do; realizing that they all descended on one city for a bunch of elbow-rubbing and back-patting showed me that the whole thing was a virtue-signalling stunt.

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