No. 2 US climate diplomat leaves after a year under Biden

 
INA-sources
 
The Biden administration’s second-ranking climate diplomat is leaving his government job after one year, special U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Friday.
 
Jonathan Pershing is a veteran of decades of U.S. government climate efforts, with work that included helping to negotiate the 2015 Paris accord under the Obama administration. Pershing had returned to government to help the Biden administration restart global U.S. climate efforts following President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord.
 
As soon as Joe Biden called Kerry about serving as climate envoy, “I called Jonathan in California to tell him we needed him on Day One. I told him we had to get the band back together,” Kerry said in a statement, calling it “a critical call for us.”
 
The New York Times first reported Pershing’s departure. It said he would be returning to manage climate programs for the Hewlett Foundation.
 
The No. 2 climate envoy’s departure comes after a year of all-out global diplomacy by Kerry, Pershing and their team to push governments to commit to more, and faster, cuts in climate-wrecking emissions from petroleum and coal.
 
Source: AP