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Kerry calls for close EU US co-operation to set ambitious climate goals in Glasgow

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President Biden’s Climate Envoy John Kerry arrived in Brussels for the second stop on his visit to Europe, after London. Executive Vice President Timmermans said that he was convinced that the United States and Europe working together: “We can move mountains.”

Kerry said that he was delighted to be meeting the European Commission’s College of Commissioners, reassuring that the US and President Biden were fully committed to address the issue with what he described as “an all of government effort”. 

Kerry said that the science is screaming at us and growing every year. While describing the situation as a crisis, he also said that it presented the greatest opportunity that we've had since perhaps the Industrial Revolution, to build back better and to renew ourselves and our economies. 

“We have no better partners than our friends here in Europe and the EU,” said Kerry. “It is important for us to align ourselves now, because no one country can resolve this crisis alone. It will take every country and it will be more than governments. It will take civic society of our states, our nations and it will take the private sector. Every single economic analysis makes it clear.

“It is more expensive for our citizens not to respond and do what we need to do than it is to do it. Glasgow is the last best opportunity that we have, that best hope that the world will come together and build on Paris. 

“Paris does not alone get the job done. If all of us did what's in Paris, we still see a warming 3.7 degrees or more. And we're not doing all that we set out to do in Paris. So this is the moment for countries, common sense governments people to come together and get the job done. We can do it.”

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