https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/kerry-calls-for-paying-trillions-big-emitters-quit-polluting\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“If the world is to \u201cavoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis,\u201d said Kerry, the challenge boils down to changing economic policy in a small group of large countries that he said were not doing enough to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. <\/p>\n
He called them out by name: \u201cChina, Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa and Saudi Arabia.\u201d”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“France, Germany, the U.K., U.S. and the EU agreed \u2014 pending the outcomes of a task force \u2014 to shift an initial $8.5 billion to assist South Africa to retire its fleet of coal-fired power plants and retrain mine workers. South Africa in turn significantly raised its 2030 climate target ahead of the COP26 climate summit.
\nKerry said the South Africa model was \u201ca pretty damn good template.\u201d<\/p>\n
Timmermans told a POLITICO event on Wednesday that other countries \u201clike Indonesia, and indeed, India\u201d were interested in similar deals.<\/p>\n
But South Africa’s position was unique. The financial woes of public power utility Eskom meant it had a \u201cunique problem\u201d for its partners to solve, said Kerry. \u201cEvery place is going to have its own set of challenges.\u201d”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“China, on the other hand, is being approached altogether differently. The world’s second-largest economy and largest CO2-emitter is an equal and a rival \u2014 there will be no buying off Beijing. Kerry wants China to fund other countries\u2019 renewable energy sectors, but he didn’t invite China to partner in any of the specific deals the U.S. and Europe are working on. <\/p>\n
Relations between Beijing and Washington are tense. The Trump administration’s backtracking on the Paris Agreement has China questioning whether the U.S. will stick to its renewed climate commitments if a Republican wins the presidency in 2024.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,390,272,355,104,314],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-global-warming","tag-international-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}