Todd D. Stern is the United States

United States

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 Special Envoy for Climate Change, leading talks at the United Nations climate change conferences and smaller sessions, appointed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January 26, 2009.

Stern was previously under the Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 administration Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary in the White House from 1993 to 1998, during which time he also acted as the senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol

Kyoto Protocol

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 and Buenos Aires negotiations.

Biography

Stern graduated from Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 in 1973, and earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School

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.

E-8

He has proposed create the E-8, a novel international group uniting leading developed nations and developing ones for an annual gathering focused on combating global warming.

See also

• Center for American Progress
  Center for American Progress
  The Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C.Its President and Chief...
  
  
• Climate debt
  Climate debt
  Climate debt is a theoretical concept which has been submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by over fifty countries including Bolivia, Bhutan, Malaysia, Micronesia, Sri Lanka, Paraguay, Venezuela and the Group of Least Developed countries, representing 49 of the...
  
  
• David Sandalow
• Initiative on Global Climate Change
• WilmerHale

External links

• “The only sustainable development is low carbon development,” Todd Stern says