Secretary of State John Kerry has been quietly pursuing “a systematic, top-down push to create an agencywide focus on global warming”, The New York Times reported. “His goal is to become the lead broker of a global climate treaty in 2015 that will commit the United States and other nations to historic reductions in fossil-fuel pollution.”
Four days later, Christiana Figueres, the UN official in charge of negotiations for that treaty, came in strongly behind this encouraging development.
