John Podesta (D), a Senior White House Adviser focused on Clean Energy and Climate, will take over as U.S. Climate Diplomat, after John Kerry steps down this Spring.
Podesta, Campaign Manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential bid, and the current White House Senior Adviser on Clean Energy and Inflation Reduction Act Implementation.
He plans to stay within the White House, in His New Role as Chief Climate Diplomat, rather than moving to the State Department, and will keep both His current Portfolio as a Senior Adviser, to the President on Climate Change and engage in International Climate Diplomacy on behalf of the Biden Administration.
Podesta first came to the Biden White House in September 2023, when He was tasked with Implementing the Climate Measures in the Inflation Reduction Act. Podesta also previously served as a Ttop Climate Adviser to former President Obama, where He was involved both in Domestic and International Climate Policy.
Podesta was integrally involved in the Obama Administration’s Executive Actions on Cclimate and International negotiations that resulted in the Paris Climate Accord.
Kerry is leaving the Position after Three years at the helm of U.S. Climate Diplomacy. The 80-year-old former Secretary of State and Nominee for President led U.S. Negotiations at Three International Climate Summits, the most recent of which was held in Dubai.
Kerry commended Podesta in a Statement as a “longtime climate ally” who “knows the issue.”
Kerry said He would be putting His focus on trying to get Biden Re-Elected in November and touting the President’s Climate Agenda. “He’s going to everything he can in the campaign to be able to make [climate] a key issue, and I’m going to do everything I can to help the president be able to be reelected,” Kerry said.
Kerry struck several significant International Agreements, that brought the U.S. back to the International Table, after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Landmark Paris Agreement.
Kerry was aided in His Negotiations, by the Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, which put significant Investment behind Biden’s Ambitious Climate Commitments.
Kerry prioritized Restarting International Climate Talks between the U.S. and China, after China abruptly halted Cooperation over other Geopolitical Issues. Kerry was key in Negotiating the Sunnylands Agreement struck in November, 2022, a wide-ranging Climate Agreement between the Two Countries before COP28.
“The message coming out of this COP is we are moving away from fossil fuels,” Kerry said in Dubai in November, 2023. “We’re not turning back.”
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