John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the State Department in Washington, on Feb. 6, 2024.
or a brief moment, John Kerry, 80, admits that he is tired. We’re sitting in the back of his chauffeured van, and the former U.S. Secretary of State turned presidential climate envoy arrived here at his hotel in Paris
John Kerry is seen on a screen as he speaks during a high-level round table on COP energy and climate commitments organized by the International Energy Agency at its headquarters in Paris on Feb. 20, 2024.There are obvious limits to Kerry’s approach. The face-to-face relationships at the heart of his work are only as good as the next election, which can place a new party in power everywhere from the U.S. to allied and rival countries around the world.
The approach made a difference at key moments. In the final hours of the UN climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, for example, talks remained at risk of falling apart with China and India protesting language calling for an end to coal-fired power. Kerry, who I spotted walking the conference grounds late into the night with his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua, drew on past negotiations to suggest a middle ground that China eventually supported.
when he was unsure whether his arguments would win the day. Ultimately, Biden committed the U.S. to spending $11 billion annually by 2024. In assessing any public official’s legacy it can be easy to look for one or two initiatives to dub crowning achievements or grand bargains. Kerry has a few of those. But rethinking the way climate finance works may be even bigger. “Three plus years into the administration, it now seems maybe entirely obvious that the private sector would be absolutely central to the way that people think about climate finance,” says Power. “But I don’t know that it was obvious.”, who as a U.S.
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