John Podesta to succeed John Kerry as top adviser for international climate policy
Podesta will maintain his current portfolio advising the president while adding the climate envoy duties. Kerry will shift to supporting Biden’s re-election campaign.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has picked senior White House adviser John Podesta to fill the international climate policy role being vacated by John Kerry, a senior administration official confirmed Wednesday.
A second senior official said Podesta will maintain his current portfolio advising the president while adding the climate duties.
“We need to keep meeting the gravity of this moment, and there is no one better than John Podesta to make sure we do,” White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said in a statement Wednesday. “John has — and will continue to be — at the helm of driving the implementation of the most significant climate law in history.”
Podesta will work from the White House; Kerry had been operating out of the State Department. He will also continue to oversee a team tasked with implementing the Inflation Reduction Act, a White House official said.
The Washington Post first reported Podesta’s new role.
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