John Kerry on the role of U.S. diplomacy with China in combatting climate change globally

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Former U.S. Secretary of State and Inaugural U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry joins The Post's Jonathan Capehart from Washington Post Live's "This is Climate Summit" in New York City to discuss the climate talks between China and the United States, the role of global cooperation to meet the generational challenge of protecting our planet and what the United States needs to learn from its competitor. Conversation recorded on Monday, September 23, 2024.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Kapart.
0:03.0	On September 23rd, the Washington Post hosted a climate summit in New York City
0:08.4	as the United Nations General Assembly got underway on the other side of town.
0:13.6	The closing plenary session was about China, and my guest was John Carey, the 68th
0:18.8	Secretary of State under President Obama, and the former Special Envoy for Climate under President Biden.
0:26.0	We talked about his interactions with President Gizin-Ping and how the Chinese leader is laser
0:31.2	focused on the climate issue about China's renewable energy
0:35.1	revolution that has outpaced the United States and what the United States
0:40.0	needs to learn from its competitor. Make decisions, make Congress work, get your asses in gear and stop screwing around.
0:47.0	We are crunched for time.
0:51.0	You are especially crunched for time, so I'm just going to dive in.
0:54.2	When you were the U.S. climate envoy, what was your sense of the Chinese government's
0:58.7	urgency in countering climate change?
1:01.9	I would say that China was in transition from not moving sufficiently or embracing
1:10.1	the challenge to actually embracing it.
1:13.0	And as a result of the Sunnylands negotiation
1:17.0	that we had in California a couple years ago,
1:20.0	I guess a year ago now. China agreed to do things they've never agreed to do.
1:26.0	One, to list all greenhouse gases in their national goal.
1:31.0	Two, that includes methane, which they hadn't done, so they also agreed to do a national
1:36.7	methane reduction plan, which is critical.
1:39.6	And thirdly, they agreed to accelerate in this decade, which they were kind of refusing to do, claiming
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