Clinton Climate Change Envoy Vows Dramatic Diplomacy. By John Whitesides, Reuters, January 27, 2009. "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named a special envoy on Monday to lead U.S. efforts to fight global warming and forge new international accords on reducing carbon emissions and developing clean energy... Todd Stern, a senior White House official under former President Bill Clinton, will be the administration's principal adviser on international climate policy and strategy and its chief climate negotiator. 'With the appointment today of a special envoy we are sending an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy,' Clinton said at a State Department ceremony... Stern coordinated climate change policy from 1997 to 1999 in her husband Bill Clinton's administration, acting as the senior White House negotiator in the Kyoto talks... He is a partner in a Washington law firm and a senior fellow at Center for American Progress think tank, which is home to many veterans of the Clinton administration."
2009-01-27
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