Climate czar John Kerry will be leaving his Biden administration role this week.
According to The Hill, Kerry's last day as special presidential envoy for climate will be Wednesday. However, a White House spokesperson declined to share additional information on Kerry's next steps.
Kerry said in January that he would be “shifting” to work on the 2024 election. The Hill also reports Kerry is expected to do work with Yale University.
During a recent event at the Council on Foreign Relations, Kerry said that though he was leaving the post of climate envoy, “I am not leaving the climate fight.”
“I intend to be part of the effort to accelerate the transition and meet the goals set out in Dubai,” Kerry said, referring to the global climate summit that took place in Dubai last year.
Reflecting on his first day on the job, Kerry said: “The most critical decision of that day was a commitment to do every single thing in our power to be able to limit the earth's temperature increase to 1.5 degrees centigrade” — the equivalent of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature threshold scientists say the world must not exceed if it is to avoid some of the most devastating potential impacts of climate change.
The Biden administration announced that Biden climate advisor John Podesta will take over as lead of the administration's international climate policy.
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