John Kerry: Countries that fail to transition to clean energy are going to suffer economically

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Burning of fossil fuels is of most concern to Kerry.
42% : But like all countries of the world, it won't be able to hold back sea-level rise, he says, and as a rich country of the Global North, we certainly won't avoid climate migration if the collective response of signatories to the Paris Agreement, the 2016 international treaty on climate, is not what it needs to be.Getting off fossil fuels - as agreed last year at Cop28 in Dubai, the UN's climate conference, by almost 200 countries including all of the world's worst carbon emitters - has to be "fair, equitable and orderly", the former US secretary of state and, until recently, the climate envoy to US president Joe Biden tells The Irish Times in an interview on a visit to Dublin this week.
32% : The question is: will we get there in time to avoid the worst consequences of the crisis?"He believes Trump can't do what he thinks he can, because transitioning to clean energy is unstoppable.
29% : "Kerry says developed countries such as the US and China - responsible for about 80 per cent of carbon emissions - are "moving much slower than they should be" and this was "causing this agony for so many vulnerable and less developed nations".

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