John Kerry: Trump Put Global Climate Agenda on ‘Bleak Pathway’

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry said at the TIME100 Summit Wednesday that the effort to ween the world off fossil fuels is in a “profoundly” better place now than it was three years ago under Donald Trump.

President Biden’s predecessor put the climate agenda on a “bleak pathway,” says Kerry, who was named the first Presidential climate envoy by Biden in 2021, and spoke onstage with TIME senior correspondent Justin Worland.

At COP28, the UN Climate Change conference held in Dubai in December, nearly 200 countries agreed to move away from fossil fuels to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

“The only issue is will it happen fast enough that we avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis; rich nations will muddle through it, it’s the poorest people on the planet that are going to be decimated,” says Kerry. He pointed to extreme heat in Africa, the implosion of food capacity, the scarcity of water all creating climate refugees. “We are heading in a very dangerous direction but we can win this battle,” he says.

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