Dr Jonathan Pershing on US-China climate cooperation over the past year
Channel: Carbon Brief
Date: 2022-06-13

https://www.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-interview-dr-jonathan-pershing/

Dr Jonathan Pershing is the programme director of environment at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in the US. He had led the programme from 2017 to 2021 before serving as the US’s deputy special envoy for climate, under John Kerry, from February 2021 to early 2022. He returned to the foundation in March. 

A veteran diplomat, Dr Pershing has worked under four US presidents and attended every single UN COP climate summit since the first meeting in Berlin in 1995. He served as the climate envoy under the Obama administration and helped negotiate the Paris Agreement. 

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