Jonathon Berman, jonathon.berman@sierraclub.org
Washington, DC -- Today, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he will be appointing former Secretary of State John Kerry as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Kerry will serve as a cabinet-level appointee and on the National Security Council, the first time in history that the Council includes a member solely focused on the climate crisis.
A longtime advocate for climate action, Kerry has decades of experience from his time in the Senate where he proposed and passed meaningful climate legislation, as Secretary of State where he helped lead the world in crafting and signing the Paris Climate Agreement, and most recently, as the co-lead of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force.
In response, Sierra Club Acting Deputy Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Legal Dalal Aboulhosn released the following statement:
“From being a leading voice championing legislation in the Senate, to guiding the world in global action, to crafting a unified path for the Democratic Party, Secretary John Kerry is a preeminent climate champion. His appointment as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate not only signals to the world that the United States will once again take up the mantle of global leadership in addressing climate change, but demonstrates that President-elect Joe Biden is following his commitment to use a whole of the government approach to tackling the crisis.
“The Sierra Club applauds President-elect Biden’s announcement of Secretary Kerry as Special Envoy, and we look forward to working with him and the Biden Administration to return the United States as a global leader on climate action.”
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