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Kerry: Climate talks should have done more on pollution cuts

FILE - Demonstrators hold bandanas that read "pay up for loss & damage" at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 12, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) FILE - Demonstrators participate in a protest against fossil fuels at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said the international global warming talks didn’t do enough to speed up cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) FILE - Xie Zhenhua, China's special envoy for climate, left, gestures, near U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, right, during a session on the Global Methane Pledge at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 17, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File) FILE - From the left, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meet on the sidelines of the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 7, 2022. Kerry said the international global warming talks didn’t do enough to speed up cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - A climate clock displays how much time is left before the world uses up the carbon emissions that can still be produced while staying at or below the 1.5 degrees warming goal at a demonstration at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 18, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said the international global warming talks didn’t do enough to speed up cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) FILE - A smokestack stands at a coal plant on June 22, 2022, in Delta, Utah. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said the international global warming talks in November 2022, didn’t do enough to speed up cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) FILE - U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks during a session on accelerating clean energy at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 9, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said the international global warming talks didn’t do enough to speed up cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
Kerry: Climate talks should have done more on pollution cuts