Todd D. Stern (born May 4, 1951) is an American lawyer and diplomat. He served as the

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Special Envoy for Climate Change and was the United States' chief negotiator at the 2015

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Education

Stern graduated from

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in 1973, and earned a J.D. at

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Career

Stern served as the

Special Envoy for Climate Change, leading talks at the

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s and smaller sessions, appointed by U.S. Secretary of State

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on January 26, 2009. He was the United States' chief negotiator at the 2015

. Stern has proposed the creation of the E-8, a novel international group uniting leading developed nations and developing ones for an annual gathering focused on combating global warming. Stern previously served under the

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administration as Assistant to the President and

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in the White House from 1993 to 1998, during which time he also acted as the senior White House negotiator at the

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and Buenos Aires negotiations. At the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in

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, Stern was interrupted by Abigail Borah, who accused USA of moving to slowly to tackle climate change.

Personal life

On 10 September 1995, at the

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, Stern married Jennifer Klein, a policy analyst working for the

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and

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“The only sustainable development is low carbon development,” Todd Stern says
(Video, 2009) *State Dept.

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