Kerry to Hemisphere’s Leaders: Energy Is The Future
Kerry to Hemisphere’s Leaders: Energy Is The Future
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warns Latin America to confront energy issues and cooperate more at the COA and State Department annual Washington Conference.
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State John Kerry warned Latin American leaders Tuesday that their future will be determined by the choices they make regarding energy resources.
Giving introductory remarks for Thursday’s U.S.-Caribbean-Central American Energy Summit, Kerry praised a historic Paris climate agreement aimed at curbing the pace of global warming and called it an “enormous signal” about the future....
...His remarks at the State Department served a dual purpose, opening the energy conference and closing the 46th annual Washington Conference on the Americas, an event hosted by the Council for the Americas that brought together foreign dignitaries and U.S. policymakers and business leaders. Speakers included Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela, Colombian Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas and Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan-American Health Organization.
