John Kerry, the Biden administration's point person at the COP26 conference, states many of the world's leading economies had committed to ambitious cuts of greenhouse emissions before the Glasgow conference even began.
GLASGOW, Scotland — One week into the U.N. Climate Change Conference,, President Biden's special envoy for climate, said Friday that “what’s happening here is far from business as usual," and that the commitments made by the world's nations so far signaled that "change is happening."
"There's a genuine progress here," Kerry said in a hoarse voice, adding, "Here at this COP, in every corner of this COP, every day, initiatives are being put forward, countries are signing on the dotted line." According to an analysis by the International Energy Agency, Kerry said, "if you take the current level of where we are in terms of NDCs combined with the initiatives on the table, the money that is on the table, we would be at 1.8 degrees" Celsius of temperature rise. If true, that figure would represent a significant drop in the projected warming based on proposals to cut emissions. Ahead of COP26, existing pledges were predicted to have led to 2.7 degrees Celsius of warming.
"In the end, I can't tell you exactly what the decision will be next week," Kerry said, adding, "but we are striving to make certain that this is a strong statement and implementable."
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