The dynamic is, in part, a testament to Kerry’s role as an elder statesman who is greeted with open arms by heads of government in foreign capitals. He comes up in conversations with the diplomats, legislators and business personalities on the inside as well as with the activists looking in. This year, the fate of our civilization is being determined in bland convention-center meeting spaces, slick corporate boardrooms and regal hotel ballrooms, and wherever you go, it’s hard to escape Kerry’s name. helped broker a key compromise to affirm the countries’ broad commitment to ambitious climate-fighting measures but could not win universal agreement on a specific commitment to phase out coal. “I believe in the ability of people to sit down and try to work reasonably together.” In the frenzied 24-plus hours of talks that followed, Kerry’s team sought to put that mantra into action, refusing to let the two-day conference end without an agreement. “I’ve always believed in diplomacy,” he says. Kerry takes each one in stride, responding to every question with optimism that reason will prevail. rift with China, Europe’s plan to tax climate laggards and the demands from developing nations that their rich counterparts do more.
On the roof, I ask Kerry about the various conflicts that some fear might scuttle the COP26 talks-the U.S.
The stakes are existential, but the debates at the Excelsior can seem pedantic in one conference room, negotiators are tussling over the wording of how countries should submit new climate plans.
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