Kerry: We Don’t Have the Luxury of Waiting Until Covid Is Vanquished to Take up the Climate Challenge

‘We’re meeting at a very difficult time’

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KERRY: "So, obviously we’re meeting at a very difficult time in the pandemic., and the Covid crisis still holds too many people at risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death. And while the extraordinary technological development of vaccines is helping to ease the crisis, we are obviously not yet through it. I am very sorry to say the suffering of Covid will be magnified many times over in a world that does not grapple with and ultimately halt the climate crisis. We don’t have the luxury of waiting until Covid is vanquished to take up the climate challenge."

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