John Kerry says reversing pledges to cut fossil fuel investments is 'unnecessary' and 'dangerous'.
The US climate envoy has criticised big oil firms who are now maintaining fossil fuel investments after promising cuts to meet climate change targets.last week about the need for future oil investments.Senator Kerry told the BBC said that any changes to these promises were "moving in the wrong direction".
"Look, in the last few days, we've had scientists say this is terrifying , we have scientists saying we are in uncharted territory." He said the world still "desperately needs oil and gas" given that attempts to replace it with renewable energy were not happening fast enough. However, international climate scientists say fossil fuel projects should be closed down, not expanded, and argue there can be no new projects if there is to be a chance of keeping global temperature rises under 1.5C.US Climate Envoy John Kerry met with UK Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Grant Shapps that if the world was serious about climate change then "we have to reduce the use of oil and gas significantly in the next years to come".
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