Kerry Appeals To All To Share Burden Of Climate Change

Saturday, 13 December 2014, 00:01 IST
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LIMA: Asserting that industrialized nations have to play a major role in reducing emissions, the U.S said developing countries like India and China too have a key role to play in addressing this challenge and asked the world leaders to jointly share the burden of combating the crisis.

U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, who addressed representatives of more than 190 countries at the UN climate talks being held here in the Peruvian capital, also took a swipe at American politicians who continue to deny that climate change and its devastating effects are real.

 "You don't need a PhD...You just need to pay attention to see that the world is already changing," he said.

"No single country, not even the United States, can solve this problem or foot this bill alone. That's not rhetoric. It is literally impossible," Kerry said in his address to the Climate Summit here.

"If we each in America planted a dozen trees - if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions - guess what? That still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world and providing the same level of damage at a different point in time than we face today," he said.

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Source: PTI