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## Video: Kerry Urges World Leaders to Act on Climate Change

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_Published 2014-09-23. Secretary of State John Kerry says it's "about time" world leaders acted on climate change._


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## Transcript

It is about time that world leaders come to the United Nations to recognize this threat in the way that it requires and demands. And it gives me hope that this global summit may actually produce of the leadership that is necessary to try to come together and move the needle to take advantage. Of the smaller window of time and I mean that the small window of time that we have left in order to be able to prevent the worst impacts of climate change from already happening.

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