John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy has said that the battle against climate change will only be successful if people around the world adopt a warlike mindset and quicken their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
When asked if the world will achieve the common objective of keeping the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2032 at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, he said that with the current level of effort being made, that aim won’t be realized.
In his words, “We can’t hit 1.5. We’re not on track to do it now, and it’s not clear, absolutely clear that we will get on track.””We have to right now be deploying the largest solar field in the world, every day, for the next years in order hit the 1.5”
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Speaking further, he said, “We have to be deploying renewables six times faster than we are today. “We can do this, but there is not yet the kind of commitment, broadly, that is necessary to make it happen,” Kerry added.
He further stated that much more “collective will” is needed “as if we were at war and ready to turn factories into solar panel producers. I think some of that is what we need.”
Story was adapted from Fox News.
