Special envoy for climate change, John Kerry, said in an interview with the weekly New Yorker that:
‘During the G20 meeting on the environment, held last month in Italy, he faced the heavy effects of the Trump administration’s decision to leave the Paris accords and multilateralism’. “Trump has done a tremendous job of radically destroying America’s credibility,” Kerry said, explaining that at the G20 he could hear country after country asking if “we can count on America” as far as environmental protection policies and carbon reduction projects are concerned. Kerry made it clear that this lack of trust will be a major obstacle to the success of the upcoming U.N. climate summit, which is scheduled to be held in Glasgow in early November. The U.S. climate envoy sought to reassure country representatives by saying that the momentum building in the private sector to move away from high-carbon fuels is “self-sustaining” and can withstand any future president.
