Todd D. Stern, HRC's climate change envoy

Posted By Laura Rozen Monday, January 26, 2009 - 7:54 PM Share

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today named Todd D. Stern her envoy on climate change, Politico and others report. Stern, a former assistant and staff secretary to then President Bill Clinton, "coordinated the Clinton administration's Initiative on Global Climate Change from 1997 to 1999, acting as the senior White House negotiator in the Kyoto talks on climate change," Reuters reports. More recently, Stern has been a partner at WilmerHale law firm and a senior fellow focused on climate change and environmental issues at the Center for American Progress. His father Richard Stern was a former limited partner in the Chicago Bulls.