Bloomberg Quicktake published this video item, entitled “Kerry Praises Biden, Says He’ll Help 2024 Re-Election Campaign” – below is their description.
This year’s US presidential election will help determine whether the world stems global warming fast enough to avoid its most severe impacts, according to John Kerry, the country’s climate envoy.
The transition to a lower carbon economy is inevitable because companies are investing billions of dollars in cutting emissions, Kerry said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on World Economic Forum in Davos. But the speed at which that change happens will be affected by whoever wins the vote, which is why the stakes are “as high as they can get,” he said.
Kerry has been a strong proponent of private sector-driven decarbonization. Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Boeing Co are participants of the First Movers Coalition, an initiative he helped create in 2021 to persuade technology and industrial behemoths to clean up dirty industries. That effort is now bearing fruit, he said.
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Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976. Apple went public in 1980. In August 2018, Apple became the first publicly traded U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion and just two years later in August 2020 became the first $2 trillion U.S. company.
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