Climate change and global warming - concerns at Paris Meet

John Kerry

The United States is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases which cause global warming. Taking this fact seriously, John Kerry the former US climate envoy John Kerry has declared earlier this week that that the US would take action to accelerate its reduction of emissions instead of just making promises.

He assured the people that the President Joe Biden "will announce several trillions of dollars of investments We are going to build up our grid, we're going to reduce our emissions, we're going to step up in a very significant way so it's not talk by the United States," said Kerry, in no uncertain terms.

Kerry’s words carry weight because notably, the President Biden had announced plans to hold a climate summit on Earth Day on April 22. And global warming one if his greater concerns.

This should be clear from the fact that his predecessor Donald Trump had opted the United States out of the Paris Agreement, while Joe Biden immediately re-joined after taking office.

Notably, through Nationally Determined Contributions or NDC, that include the procedures that countries plan to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement, the goal of which is limiting the increase in global temperatures to around 1.5 degrees Celsius, is taken seriously.

Therefore, recognising the US’ dangerous position of being the most carbon-emitting nation across the globe, Kerry had declared at a Paris meeting organised by the International Energy Agency, that "In a few weeks at our summit the president will announce our NDC which will be strong." "We simply cannot afford another decade of deliberations," he had said.

The need to abandon coal as a source of electricity production, develop zero-emission cars and combat deforestation are the measures the nations and the US are trying to work upon.