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Top U.S. climate diplomat to step down

By Kyle Feldscher
Published March 21, 2016 3:33pm ET
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Top U.S. climate diplomat to step down
"Pricing carbon is a big, big, big, big deal," Todd Stern said. "We sort of have implicit prices on carbon ... but some day that's going to happen. One would hope it happens sooner rather than later." (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP) | MANDEL NGAN

President Obama’s top international climate change negotiator will step down from his position next month.

Todd Stern, the U.S special envoy for climate change, will leave his position April 1, the State Department said Monday. Jonathan Pershing, currently at the Department of Energy as principal deputy director of the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, will replace him.

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