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In a major development, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, said that the US did not hold all responsibility for dealing with the consequences of climate change. He was speaking at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) taking place in Dakar, Senegal. Kerry said that all were responsible for the climate change and therefore should share responsibility
In a major development, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, said that the US did not hold all responsibility for dealing with the consequences of climate change. He was speaking at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) taking place in Dakar, Senegal. Kerry said that all were responsible for climate change and therefore should share responsibility.
Kerry further said that Mother Nature did not measure where the emissions come from. It did not have a label of one country or another on them. He alluded that it was the end result of choices that we make about vehicles, heating the homes, the lighting used in factories, and a whole lot of things. There was a need to mitigate such practices and adapt to the coming changes collectively. All countries, particularly in Africa, should come around and need to adapt to the changes, he said.
China tops the list of the world’s worst polluters, closely followed by the United States. In the meantime, developing countries across the world are demanding that compensation for damage caused by global warming be high on the agenda of the UN World Climate Conference (COP27). Some of the countries, especially Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refused to allow their countries to give up future oil and gas exploitation under pressure from industrialised countries. They argue that the small share of their countries in global greenhouse gas emissions and the disproportionate toll they are paying.
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They expressed concern about the crucial importance of setting up a financing mechanism to deal with loss and damage. They demanded major emitters, urgently and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and honour past financial commitments to address global warming. Some 20 countries, including the United States and France, pledged at COP26 in 2021 to end foreign financing of fossil fuel projects without carbon capture technologies by the end of 2022.
