climate diplomacy

John Podesta looks on during a meeting between President Biden and mayors at the White House on Jan. 19, 2024.

Politics & Government

Biden's new climate envoy is John Podesta. He has a big domestic climate job too

6:15pm January 31, 2024

by Tamara Keith

Longtime Democratic aide John Podesta will take over international climate talks from former Secretary of State John Kerry. He also oversees Biden's big domestic climate incentives.

Volunteers fight a wildfire in northeastern Siberia on July 17th. Heat waves in the Russian Arctic and boreal forests have fueled intense, widespread blazes that can damage trees and release enormous amounts of stored carbon dioxide from forests and perma

Science

Climate Scientists Meet As Floods, Fires, Droughts And Heat Waves Batter Countries

6:53am July 26, 2021

by Rebecca Hersher

Hundreds of scientists are meeting to finalize a landmark climate report. It's meant to guide the next decade of international climate policy, but it's unclear if politicians will act on it.

U.S. Consulate Lahore staff and participants including Maryum Saifee (second from right) in the ATX+PAK entrepreneurship program at the Mix festival in Lahore, Pakistan. The event is inspired by Austin's SXSW events.

World News
National

State Department Should Be More Diverse And Engaged Across U.S., Report Says

1:27pm March 03, 2021

by Michele Kelemen

The Biden administration pledges a foreign policy that delivers to middle-class Americans. Linking up to locales across the country — outside D.C. — could help with that, according to a new report.

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