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"Australia’s government, which will preside over the next UN climate summit,
should gather the world’s 25 biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries and push
them to draw up a roadmap to end the era of fossil fuels, former US secretary
of state John Kerry has said.
Only by “hard-nosed” confrontation with fossil fuel producers, and reducing
their consumption in major economies, would the world be able to tackle the
climate crisis, he said.
Australia’s climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, has been given the
role of “president of negotiations”, even though the Cop31 climate summit will
be held in Turkey, after the two countries agreed to compromise on hosting
arrangements.
“We need to be more demanding, more pushy,” he told the Guardian in an
exclusive interview. “The Australian president [of the Cop31 climate summit]
needs to take charge. Only if you get China, Russia, the US, India and Europe
together and they decide to really do the transition [to a clean economy]
everyone else will follow.”
This would be difficult, he admitted. “Saudi Arabia and Russia will be hard,”
he said. The US under Donald Trump was also unlikely to take part without
severe pressure. But Kerry said: “I think some fossil fuel producers will set a
roadmap.”
Even the process of calling such a meeting would be useful, by isolating those
who refuse to take part, many of whom prefer to stay in the shadows, according
to Kerry, who was climate envoy to Joe Biden after serving as secretary of
state in Barack Obama’s second term.
“It will expose the objectors,” he said. “Call them out. People need to see
that if you’re not part of the process, you’re part of the problem. Everyone
has to run out of patience with the games that are being played.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
