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Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Sept. 7, 2023
Report Number IF12487
Report Type In Focus
Authors Richard K. Lattanzio; Cory R. Gill
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

In November 2020, then President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would appoint former Secretary of State John F. Kerry to serve in a new Cabinet-level position of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC). The SPEC plays a key role in the policy President Biden subsequently announced in Executive Order (E.O.) 14008 of January 27, 2021, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, that climate considerations shall be an essential element of United States foreign policy and national security [and that the] United States will work with other countries and partners, both bilaterally and multilaterally, to put the world on a sustainable climate pathway.