John Kerry helped win support at the U.N. climate summit for a deal that aims to accelerate emissions-cutting plans. But he says the U.S. won’t be strengthening its own plan next year.
GLASGOW—U.S. climate envoy John Kerry helped win support at the United Nations summitthis weekend that aims to accelerate emissions-cutting plans and asks countries to strengthen them again next year.
Hours later, Mr. Kerry underscored the fundamental weakness of the new agreement when he said the U.S., the world’s second-largest greenhouse-gas emitter, is unlikely to speed up its own reduction plan in a year’s time, arguing that it goes far enough.
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