Todd Stern

Todd Stern
United States Special Envoy for Climate Change
In office
January 26, 2009 – April 1, 2016
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJonathan Pershing
White House Staff Secretary
In office
June 30, 1995 – March 11, 1998
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byJohn Podesta
Succeeded byPhillip Caplan
Personal details
Born (1951-05-04) May 4, 1951 (age 73)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseJennifer L. Klein
EducationDartmouth College (BA)
Harvard University (JD)

Todd D. Stern (born May 4, 1951) was the United States Special Envoy for Climate Change, and was the United States' chief negotiator at the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.[1][2]

Education

Stern graduated from Dartmouth College in 1973,[3] and earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School.[4]

Career

Stern served as the United States Special Envoy for Climate Change, leading talks at the United Nations climate change conferences and smaller sessions, appointed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January 26, 2009.[5] He was the United States' chief negotiator at the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.[1][2]

Stern has proposed the creation of the E-8, a novel international group uniting leading developed nations and developing ones for an annual gathering focused on combating global warming.[6]

Stern previously served under the Bill Clinton administration as Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary in the White House from 1993 to 1998, during which time he also acted as the senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol and Buenos Aires negotiations.[7][8]

At the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban, Stern was interrupted by Abigail Borah, who accused USA of moving to slowly to tackle climate change.[9]

Todd Stern at COP18 in Doha, 2012

Family life

On 10 September 1995, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Stern married Jennifer Klein, a policy analyst working for the Domestic Policy Council and office of the First Lady.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Statement by the President on the Paris Climate Agreement". whitehouse.gov. December 12, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2016 – via National Archives.
  2. ^ a b Kerry, John (March 21, 2016). "Statement on the Departure of U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern and the Appointment of Jonathan Pershing". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 2020-01-26.
  3. ^ Peret, Anya (2009-01-27). "Stern '73 to be climate-change envoy". The Dartmouth. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
  4. ^ Romero, Frances (2009-01-26). "Climate Change Envoy Todd Stern". Time. Archived from the original on January 30, 2009. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  5. ^ Franke-Ruta, Garance (January 26, 2009). "Stern Appointed Climate Change Envoy". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
  6. ^ "Stern Appointed Climate Change Envoy". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  7. ^ Hermann, Burkely (January 20, 2022). "National Security and Climate Change: Behind the U.S. Pursuit of Military Exemptions to the Kyoto Protocol". Briefing Book # 784. National Security Archive. Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
  8. ^ Wampler, Robert (April 5, 2021). "The Clinton White House and Climate Change, Part II: Engaging the Oval Office". Briefing Book # 754. National Security Archive. Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
  9. ^ Broder, John M. (2011-12-08). "U.S. Climate Envoy Seems to Shift Stance on Timetable for New Talks". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  10. ^ "WEDDINGS; Jennifer L. Klein, Todd D. Stern". New York Times. September 10, 1995. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016.
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1995–1998 		Succeeded by
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