John Kerry lauds Europe's progress on climate change, and reassures EU leaders the U.S. is committed
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Paris — Six years after the historic Paris Agreement was signed, President Biden's special envoy for climate change, John Kerry, was back in the French capital late last week as part of a whistle-stop tour to reassure European partners that the U.S. is back, and ready to lead the fight against global warming.
Speaking exclusively to CBS News, Kerry said on Friday that Europe was doing particularly well at tackling warming: "The European community has been very forward-leaning on this, and there are a good number of countries within Europe that are already almost carbon neutral and changing their energy sources, getting off coal, moving away from fossil fuels and deploying renewable [sources] and becoming quite independent on it."
He said the U.S. was once again moving forward on reducing greenhouse gas emissions after climate issues were largely ignored during the Trump presidency.
