The Sustainable Hour's video: John F Kerry US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate speaking at UN Security Council meeting

Excerpt from the United Nations' Security Council debate entitled 'Climate and Security' on 23 February 2021. See the live stream recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZV7vV6Mdc&ab_channel=UnitedNations "Treat the [climate] crisis as the emergency that it is," says John F. Kerry, the United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. After decades of political procrastination, it is encouraging to finally see the UN, UK and US along with numerous other countries and organisations stand together on this issue. Many have started initiating better legislation and regulation to address the dire security and safety crisis, which our leaders have caused themselves by allowing unregulated and uncontrolled human and industrial carbon emissions to continue to rise, currently amounting to over 50 gigatonnes of planet-warming gasses spewed into the atmosphere every year, and thereby granting the fossil fuel industry the greatest market subsidy ever: the privilege to dump its waste products into the atmosphere at no charge. In 2019, Kerry likened the funding and the scale required to tackle the climate emergency to the Marshall plan to rebuild Europe after the Second World War.