"WASHINGTON - U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said on Wednesday that big greenhouse gas emitting countries like China, India, Russia and others must move faster to help the world avert the worst impacts of global warming.

Pledges by governments to cut carbon dioxide and methane emissions are currently insufficient to limit global warming to an international target of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels this century, he said.

'And that means you have China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, a group of countries that are going to have to step up,' Kerry said in an interview at the Reuters Next conference.

'And we have to help them. This is not just unloaded responsibility on them.'"

Katy Daigle reports for Reuters December 1, 2021. [2]

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