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While President Donald Trump sends his lawyers hither-and-yon to try to overturn the election, President-elect Joe Biden has been busy filling Cabinet slots. HuffPost reports Biden named John Kerry on Monday as his special envoy on climate. He's tasked the former secretary of state with steering a 180-degree turn in US diplomacy on the issue. Kerry will also be advising the incoming Biden administration on the security challenges a warming planet poses. America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is. Kerry will represent the US at a moment that scholars increasingly see as a period of American imperial decline amid unprecedented planetary changes.
US climate envoy John Kerry is greeted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the UN climate conference in Dubai. IMAGES
US envoy John Kerry says that he hopes China and the US can "come together" on climate at the African Climate Conference in Nairobi. "I think it would be very important to other workings of the COP and to the the prospects for winning this battle which we need to do" he adds. SOUNDBITE
US climate envoy John Kerry meets China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing, as the two countries revive stalled diplomacy on reducing planet-warming emissions. IMAGES
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the world is racing toward a climate change disaster and dismissed the global response as woefully inadequate. He says current climate policies are taking the world to a 2.8-degree temperature rise by the end of the century. "That spells catastrophe. Yet the collective response remains pitiful," Guterres tells a news conference. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).