07/13/2023 at 10:00AM
Subcommittee hearing on the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
Subcommittee chair: Brian Mast (R-Fla.)
Ranking member: Jason Crow (D-Colo.)
Witness:
- John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, U.S. Department of State
Under questioning from Rep. Mast, Kerry said that “under no circumstances” would the United States support a loss and damage fund at COP 28.
MAST: Are you planning to commit America to ‘climate reparations’, that is to say we have to pay some other country because they had a flood, or they had a hurricane, or a typhoon, or a wildfire?
KERRY: No. Under no circumstances.
MAST: Very good. I’m glad to hear you say that. I do have a “no”, I’ll put it up there.
KERRY: Why don’t you create an exclamation point beside it?
MAST: I will write in an exclamation point for you. And I’m glad that we have agreement on that.
[The exchange begins at 56:05 in the above recording.]