The United States is open to possible “adjustments” to its massive climate plan to reassure Europeans who fear their businesses will flee to the other side of the Atlantic, John Kerry, the US special envoy on change, told the BBC on Saturday. climate.
The European Union has been concerned for several months about the effects of the IRA, US President Joe Biden’s $420 billion plan largely dedicated to climate and adopted last summer. This plan foresees, among other things, reforms and subsidies in favor of companies established in the United States, particularly in the electric vehicle or renewable energy sectors, which worries the European Union, which calls for more “coordination” and he fears a flight from his business to the other side of the Atlantic. The issue was at the center of French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent state visit to Washington.
A risk of hypocrisy with the coal mine project
On the BBC, John Kerry also spoke out about the controversial underground coal mine project authorized this week in the UK, the first of its kind in thirty years in the country. “Obviously people are going to be critical because the general idea is that coal mining, whatever it is, is going in the opposite direction of what most people are asking for,” he said of the project in Cumbria county. (north). -western England).
If he said he wanted to understand the project before commenting on it, he cautioned against the image that such a plan sends internationally.
Source: BFM TV
