As Kerry points out, the scientific debate about the causes of climate change is essentially over, and there is no serious, evidence-based voice to deny that humankind made a significant contribution to this change.

“The fact is that we are facing a climate crisis and humanity is making a significant contribution to this crisis. This crisis has profound negative impacts across the planet in the form of floods, storms, hurricanes, landslides, disruption to food. production. science, math, physics, but unfortunately there are people who are interested not in facts, but in profit and money in their own pockets. It’s a pretty dangerous situation,” Kerry said.

At the same time, he noticed that there are people, organizations, and companies who feel very well in their current state and achieve measurable benefits. For example, many completely irresponsible companies plan to extract oil to the last drop in deposits, because it brings profit – he said. “The status quo is our worst enemy,” said Kerry. “If attitudes prevail, but stay on the sidelines, to do less than is necessary to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, we will all suffer the consequences,” he added.

As he also notes, more and more countries and economies are starting to implement climate policies. He reminded that at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, binding commitments regarding measures aimed at limiting temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius were taken by producing countries totaling 65 percent. world GDP. These are Canada, South Korea, Japan, United States of America, United Kingdom and European Union countries. It is part of the developed world that has made the decision to act responsibly, Kerry stressed.

The lack of rest in this group, producing the remaining 35 percent, does not mean that these countries are doing nothing, he stressed. India has a transformation plan and an ambitious plan to build 500 GW of RES capacity, South Africa has a coal phase-out and transformation plan, in which Germany and the UK are involved – alongside the United States. In the case of Indonesia, there is the JETP (Just Energy Transition Partnership) initiative, a number of countries are helping to carry out the transformation there, Vietnam is working on a transformation plan – said Kerry.

He added that China and Russia remained from other big countries. “China has a plan, but we think it can be done more and more quickly” – assessed the interlocutor of the PAP, adding that Russia, in turn, is now a wider problem.

“The 20 largest economies in the world account for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. If the G20 countries move in the same direction at the same time, we will win. I am optimistic about the possibility of expanding the scope of energy transformation on a global scale,” added John Kerry.