Kerry: Trump doesn’t ‘have a right’ to ignore climate policy

By Joel Gehrke

Published November 16, 2016 6:52pm ET

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Kerry: Trump doesn’t ‘have a right’ to ignore climate policy — "No one has a right to make decisions that affect billions of people based on solely ideology or without proper input," John Kerry said. (AP Photo) | Mosa'ab Elshamy

Secretary of State John Kerry argued that President-elect Trump and other world leaders do not “have a right” to ignore the scientific consensus on climate change.

“No one has a right to make decisions that affect billions of people based on solely ideology or without proper input,” Kerry said during his speech at the COP-22 conference on climate change in Marrakech, Morocco.

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