John Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, was accused by online critics of brushing aside a question about reports of slave labor in China to produce solar panels while attending a press conference Wednesday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
the video and said that the question came after the U.S. and China announced they will increase their cooperation and speed up action to rein in climate-damaging emissions, which was seen as a key diplomatic score.
"We certainly know what they are and we’ve articulated them but that’s not my lane here. My job is to be the climate guy," Kerry said. A State Department spokesperson told Fox News in an early email Thursday that Kerry has spent his 37-year career as a senator and secretary of state"standing up for human rights and defending democracy."
Kerry’s comment seems to illustrate the diplomatic challenges of working with competing countries to come together on climate change. The Republican National Committee retweeted the comment.
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