President Joe Biden plans to name John Podesta, a longtime Democratic strategist and advisor on clean energy, to succeed John Kerry as the U.S. climate envoy, the White House confirmed to the Washington Post. …

Podesta, for his part, has long worked with Democratic administrations and was notably the chairman of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

[Presumably he’ll travel commercial to all the global conferences. Otherwise, this changes little if anything. — Ed]