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

John Kerry: US committed to tackling climate crisis despite fossil fuel growth

John Kerry.
‘We are in transition, and as our renewables come online they [fossil fuels] are going out at a very rapid rate,’ says John Kerry. Photograph: Rn E Borgen/NTB/AFP/Getty Images

The US continues to be a force for good in tackling the climate crisis, despite its soaring fossil fuel production, the John Kerry has insisted.

The outgoing US climate chief acknowledged, however, that strong safeguards were needed to dismantle oil and gas infrastructure before the switch to renewables could become permanent, as he prepared to leave his post as special presidential envoy.

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