John Kerry says Biden’s ambitious climate plan is ‘not a counter to China’

John Kerry says Biden’s ambitious climate plan is ‘not a counter to China’

No single country can solve the climate crisis “” and the American pursuit of greater research and development on climate change is not a counter to China, the Biden administration's climate envoy John Kerry told CNBC on Sunday. "No one nation can solve this problem by itself “” impossible. Each of us need everybody else at the table to make this happen," Kerry told CNBC's Hadley Gamble in Abu Dhabi after wrapping up the UAE's Regional Climate Dialogue, during which he toured renewable energy facilities in the oil-rich Gulf state.  

President Joe Biden has made tackling climate change a key priority of his administration. His clean energy measures “” which include public funding for electric vehicles (EVs), millions of additional EV charging ports, and retrofitting buildings and homes “” are aimed at achieving the long-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, the White House has said.And his massive $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, if signed into law, would be one of America's largest federal efforts ever to stem its greenhouse gas emissions.  The plan would see the U.S. invest $35 billion into clean technologies and spend $174 billion on overhauling the country's EV market. But that still pales in comparison to what China has