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[co-author: Shawn Whites] The Biden administration’s international climate diplomacy agenda is taking shape. While rejoining the Paris Agreement is the centerpiece, President Biden’s January 27 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (EO) provides insight into how the U.S. intends to “exercise its leadership to promote a significant increase in global climate ambition.” 1 In our overview of the EO and other “Climate Day” actions, we identified five key action items in international leadership. Below, we assess each item and provide background on the lead...

Robert Bonnie, former Under-Secretary at USDA, along with Leslie Jones, former Deputy Undersecretary at USDA, and Meryl Harrell, former Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and the Environment issued a Transition Memo as part of the CLIMATE 21 PROJECT for American farmers last November (read the full memo here). Ms. Jones has a terrific agriculture background, attending the College of the Atlantic, then on to Vermont Law School and then became General Counsel at the Wilderness Society. Ms. Jones then went on to become a key person at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)...

He had been mentioned for health and human secretary. and new details about the demotion for chris christie. a trump advisor says the new jersey governor met with the staff last thursday to review the transition memo. for the first time. because christie's plan involved hiring lobbyists and washington insiders, his plan was rejected and he was replaced by mike pence. here is christie discussing his future yesterday in atlantic city. >> i have no reason to believe as we stand here today that i will do anything other than serve out my full term as governor and turn the keys of the office over ...

Governor rick perry is in touch with the transition team about the role of energy secretary. the energy department is the department perry could not remember during the 2011 republican debate when listing the three he would eliminate as president. like many other contenders, perry is under consideration for other positions. and newt gingrich will not hold a post in the trump administration. he says it is not physically doable. instead, he plans to focus on strategic planning for trump. gingrich's name has been mentioned for health and human services secretary and secretary of state. new de...

Planni planning. his name has been tapped for the health and human services secretary. a senior trump adviser says the new jersey governor met with the president-elect's staff thursday to review his transition memo for the first time. because christie's plan involved hiring of lobbyists and insiders, it was rejected. christie was replaced with mike pence. here is christie discussing his future in atlantic city on thursday. >> i have no reason to believe as we stand here today that i will do anything other than serve out my full term as governor and turn the keys of the office over to whoever...