How Biden and Kerry could rebuild America’s global climate leadership

Photo caption: Then-Secretary of State John Kerry held his granddaughter as he signed the Paris climate agreement in 2016. AP Photo / Mark Lennihan. Article by Dolf Gielen and Morgan Bazilian.

John Kerry helped bring the world into the Paris climate agreement and expanded America’s reputation as a climate leader. That reputation is now in tatters, and President-elect Joe Biden is asking Kerry to rebuild it again – this time as climate envoy, a position Biden plans to include in the National Security Council.

It won’t be easy, but Kerry’s decades of experience and the international relationships he developed as a senator and secretary of state may give him a chance of making real progress, especially if that work is conducted in the spirit of mending relationships rather than “naming and shaming” other countries. […]

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