(MENAFN)Former US secretary of state John Kerry said the absence of the American government at a major climate change summit in Paris Tuesday is a "disgrace".
Called by French President Emmanuel Macron, about 60 world leaders and hundreds of ministers, company bosses, and environmentalists attended the One Planet Summit after Donald Trump"s decision to abandon the global climate accord.
France did not invite Trump and the US federal government however; was represented by the second-highest diplomat in the American embassy in Paris, Brent Hardt.
"It's very disappointing, it"s worse than disappointing, it's actually a disgrace when you consider the facts, the science, the common sense, all the work that's been done." Kerry told AFP on the summit sidelines, since he and Barack Obama made efforts to clinch the Paris accord two years ago.
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