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80-year-old former Secretary of State John Kerry will soon step down as US special climate envoy and join the election campaign of fellow Democratic Party member, 81-year-old President Joe Biden.
According to the American press, Kerry announced this to his staff on Saturday. He served as special envoy on climate change for three years.
The US presidential elections will be held in November this year.
In 2004, Senator Kerry lost the presidential election to George W. Bush, who was then re-elected to a second term, beating Kerry by only 2.4% of the vote.
He later served as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2013–2017.
He began to deal with the problem of climate change even then: under him, in 2015, the Paris Agreement was signed, in which almost all countries of the world for the first time pledged to jointly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In his current position, Kerry, in particular, participated in the preparation and conduct of the recent COP28 climate summit in Dubai, at which the countries of the world agreed on a strategy for phasing out fossil fuels.
John Kerry, despite the friction between Washington and Beijing, quite successfully collaborated with his Chinese colleague Xie Zhenhua. The US and China are the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
“The climate crisis is a threat to all of humanity, and we must all act as quickly as possible,” Kerry said in Beijing last year.
The Joe Biden administration promises that the US will cut emissions to half of 2005 levels by 2030. Two years ago, Biden passed through Congress a $369 billion green energy bill.
2024-01-14 11:18:21
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