“We are in trouble”: US envoy warns countries that are not meeting climate goals

The world is “not on track” to meet the global goal of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change and needs to step up efforts to abandon fossil fuels this decade, John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, said monday.

“We are in trouble. I hope everyone understands,” Kerry said at the “Driving the UN COP27” event, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and officials from Egypt, host country of the upcoming U.N. climate summit.

Kerry said at the event that he is concerned about the recent increase in coal use around the world and plans to build new coal plants without carbon capture technology.

Egypt will host in November the next UN climate summit, known as COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, where the government will try to show its own work to eliminate coal in power generation, improve wastewater management and launch the construction of public transport projects.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry said that, as host of the UN climate summit, Egypt will try to be the voice of African nations, which are among the hardest hit by climate change, and will focus on implementing what is codified in the Paris climate agreement.

“We will listen to the needs and priorities of Africa and other developing countries that have suffered greatly from the negative effects of climate change,” Shoukry said.

Source: Euronews