John Podesta to become new presidential envoy for climate, will still keep his role as senior White House adviser

Infamous Clinton acolyte John Podesta has been picked by President Biden to fill the role of the international climate change representative for White House.

According to reports, not only will Podesta take on the position of presidential envoy for climate — formerly held by John Kerry — he will also remain as the senior adviser to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation.

"We need to keep meeting the gravity of this moment, and there is no one better than John Podesta to make sure we do," White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told NBC News. "John has — and will continue to be — at the helm of driving the implementation of the most significant climate law in history."

Podesta was chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, a counselor to President Obama, and of course he was also the chairman of Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign.

The 75-year-old became a household name when his emails were leaked during the election cycle. Emails revealed troubling realities such as Hillary Clinton admitting she had "both a public and a private position" on policies and that she was given advance knowledge of debate questions by an employee at CNN.

Podesta joined the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in both 2022 and 2023 as the White House's senior adviser to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation.

The new climate policy representative does not often give public statements and even has an X (Twitter at the time) boycott, not having posted on the platform since August 2022. His last post was, however, to celebrate investments in "clean energy" and "climate."

"Breaking my Twitter Boycott to celebrate Senate passage of IRA and its massive investments in clean energy and climate," the politician wrote.

Podesta replaces former Vice President Kerry, who was named by Biden in 2020 to the newly invented role.

"America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is," Kerry said at the time.

Kerry has "tirelessly trekked around the world" to fight the climate crisis, Chief of Staff Zients said, according to the Guardian. The 80-year-old is expected to shift his support toward President Biden's 2024 re-election campaign.

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