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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

John Kerry urges Australia to take ‘hard-nosed’ approach with world’s biggest fossil fuel-producing countries at Cop31

Former US secretary of state John Kerry
Former US secretary of state John Kerry has urged Australia as president of the Cop31 climate summit: ‘Only if you get China, Russia, the US, India and Europe together and they decide to really do the transition [to a clean economy] everyone else will follow.’ Photograph: Ali Haider/EPA

Australia’s government, which will preside over the next UN climate summit, should gather the world’s 25 biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries and push them to draw up a roadmap to end the era of fossil fuels, former US secretary of state John Kerry has said.

Only by “hard-nosed” confrontation with fossil fuel producers, and reducing their consumption in major economies, would the world be able to tackle the climate crisis, he said.

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