Former United States special envoy for climate change and the US chief negotiator at the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement
Todd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change. Stern served from January 2009 until April 2016, as the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Department of State. He was President Obama’s chief climate negotiator, leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris..
Stern is currently focused on writing about the climate negotiations during his time as special envoy as well as on writing, speaking, and advising about ongoing efforts on climate change at both the international and domestic levels.
Stern served under President Clinton in the White House as staff secretary and as counselor to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers.
