{"id":2370,"date":"2016-03-22T23:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/22\/todd-stern-the-chief-u-s-climate-negotiator-to-step-down\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T23:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:28:36","slug":"todd-stern-the-chief-u-s-climate-negotiator-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/22\/todd-stern-the-chief-u-s-climate-negotiator-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Stern, the chief U.S. climate negotiator to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Toddsternsteppingdown\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAzLzIyLzBhL1RvZGRTdGVyblN0LjRhMDk3LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/46251bd2\/403\/ToddSternSteppingDown.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Todd+Stern%2C+the+chief+U.S.+climate+negotiator+to+step+down&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F22%2Fclimate-todd-stern-steps-down%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F22%2Fclimate-todd-stern-steps-down%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Todd Stern, widely considered to be one of the key architects and driving forces behind the Paris Climate Accord, is stepping down from his post on April 1 after seven years. The State Department announced Stern&#8217;s decision on Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stern will be replaced by his former deputy, Jonathan Pershing, who has served for the past three years as the senior climate advisor to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/12\/5-paris-climate-agreement\/\">The 5 most important components of the Paris climate agreement<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Stern&#8217;s cool demeanor and consistent optimism about reaching a truly global climate agreement was an important factor in moving the world toward a historic accord in Paris in December. He also played an integral role in securing two bilateral climate agreements with China, which is the world&#8217;s top emitter of greenhouse gases (the U.S. is number two).<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/22\/climate-todd-stern-steps-down\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/global-warming\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Global Warming<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/paris-climate-summit\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Paris Climate Summit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/climate\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Climate<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/KLIXBf8JfCM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Stern, widely considered to be one of the key architects and driving forces behind the Paris Climate Accord, is stepping down from his post on April 1 after seven years. The State Department announced Stern&#8217;s decision on Monday afternoon.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/22\/todd-stern-the-chief-u-s-climate-negotiator-to-step-down\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[898,1394,1628,1112],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-climate","tag-global-warming","tag-paris-climate-summit","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}