Durwood Zaelke and IGSD hail John Kerry’s climate appointment to National Security Council by President-elect Joe Biden
Durwood Zaelke and IGSD hail John Kerry’s climate appointment to National Security Council by President-elect Joe Biden:
“John Kerry not only was instrumental in delivering the Paris Agreement, he also was key for winning the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFC refrigerants and avoid up to 0.5°C of warming—the single biggest bite yet taken out of the climate problem.”
“Kerry knows the need for speed—the importance of the 10-year sprint to cut HFCs and other super pollutants to slow feedbacks and tipping points on the way to the net-zero goal by 2050. He’s now in a position to quite literally save the planet.”
“Biden recognizes that climate is no longer just an environmental issue, but a national security issue, and he’s put Kerry in the right position in the White House. Kerry will ensure that climate moves to the heads of State level.”
- See Remarks by Sec John Kerry at the Plenary of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol to negotiate the phase down HFC refrigerants and avoid up to 0.5°C of warming.
- See also IISD interview: Durwood Zaelke Talks HFCs, Kigali, Multilateralism, and the role of John Kerry.