John Kerry just endorsed AOC's plan to spend big on fighting the climate crisis: 'Trillions can clearly — and will need to — be invested'
US climate envoy John Kerry just said something a lot closer to the views of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than any other American politician: trillions need to be spent on fighting climate change.
Unlike AOC, though, he wants to ensure every country is playing its part in confronting the challenge.to Politico while in Europe this week, where he's strategizing with other leaders on getting countries to reduce their carbon emissions. He said that if the world is to"avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis," seven countries specifically need to do more to meet the challenge: China, Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa and Saudi Arabia.
This type of funding would come from a range of sources, Kerry told Politico, including philanthropies, partnerships among rich countries, and the private sector to help less wealthy nations that depend on fossil fuels or deforestation. Since AOC became a member of Congress, she's become a lonely voice calling for spending on a scale previously unthinkable to save the planet from the climate crisis. She
the Green New Deal in 2019, which laid out goals for a 10-year national mobilization to upgrade US infrastructure, convert to zero-emission energy sources, and remove greenhouse gases and reduce pollution, among other things.the bill this February with Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, saying during a press conference at the time that"our movement towards a sustainable future has been divided with really just this false notion that we have to choose between our planet and our economy.
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