Todd Stern
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Former Special Envoy for Climate Change, US Department of State
Todd Stern is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a distinguished fellow at the World Resources Institute. From 2009 to 2016, he was special envoy for climate change at the US State Department, leading the US effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris. Previously, Stern was a partner at the law firm WilmerHale and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He was counselor to the US treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and served in the White House from 1993 to 1999, mostly as staff secretary.
Previously
Since Syria and Nicaragua joined the Paris Accord last fall, the United States stands alone as the only country on the planet to reject the pact. President Trump’s withdrawal,...
As US special envoy for climate change in the Obama administration, Todd Stern helped cobble together a consensus among almost 200 countries to hold themselves accountable for...