Washington — President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on Friday to 19 recipients, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Al Gore and Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky. Mr. Biden spoke briefly about each honoree, praising their “relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity and hope.” Nodding to the criticism of … Read more
Former climate envoy John Kerry was among the 19 just bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as a watchdog group called him out for his serial secrecy. The pro-energy advocacy group Power The Future accuses Kerry of “hiding the truth” about who worked for him in the Climate office he just left. He’s now assigned … Read more
Outgoing climate jet-setter John Kerry is again showing his “naked contempt” for transparency by refusing to reveal his staff in an office that has operated in the dark since its inception. Kerry is now being moved to President Joe Biden’s campaign committee with longtime Democratic strategist John Podesta replacing him. Kerry informed the Herald in … Read more
It didn’t go unnoticed here that smug climate envoy John Kerry is heading over to President Biden’s campaign suite. It’s the dark side — the place where the federal Freedom of Information Act goes to die. It may go down in history that the Herald was the last media outlet to extract public records from … Read more
Officials from both sides discussed areas of cooperation, including “energy transition, methane, circular economy, low-carbon provinces/states and cities”, the ministry said. Xie was appointed as China’s first special climate envoy in 2021, the same year Kerry was appointed as America’s special presidential envoy for climate. Asia at risk as Cop28 deal falls ‘far short’ of … Read more
A Tianjin native, Xie was trained as an engineering physicist at Tsinghua University in the 1970s and started his career in various government agencies responsible for environmental affairs. While he rose through the ranks, he earned a master’s degree in environmental law from Wuhan University in 1993. Xie was made the head of the State … Read more
John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, speaks at a COP28 session between the U.S., China, UAE and Nigeria on the global need to reduce methane emissions in Dubai on Dec. 2, 2023. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said countries … Read more
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit finished their first week Wednesday in a more familiar place: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine. “Negotiations … are a mixed picture right now. We see big differences between individual … Read more
