Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Remarks by Dr. Rajiv J. Shah at the “Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition in Developing Countries” Event at the U.S. Pavilion 27th UN Climate Change Conference

As delivered on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, EgyptThank you, Secretary Kerry. And hello, everyone.I want to thank Secretary Kerry for his decades of leadership on this issue. And I want to note that few months ago, Secretary Kerry called me with this idea, along with so many of you that are here. I’m sure many of you have received similar calls.That led to a process with many more conversations with many more people. In fact, we hosted at least two day-long consultations with dozens of partners from around the world, especially those representing the core interests of the emerging economies that need to accelerate their transitions from coal.And that brings us to today.We are acting with urgency because we have no time to lose.You’ve heard about the consequences of being on a path to 2.7 degrees of warming. We know that at that temperature, life for too many…

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