WASHINGTON- John Kerry who has one of the leading names destining the Paris climate agreement has been named as the climate envoy for national security. He is the first member of the National Security Council to focus only on climate change. This was President-elect Biden's first step in adhering to a campaign pledge that confronts climate-damage from fossil fuel emissions.

“America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is,” Kerry tweeted. “I’m proud to partner with the President-elect, our allies, and the young leaders of the climate movement to take on this crisis as the President’s Climate Envoy.”

Kerry has a long track record with his career-long fight to put climate-change at the forefront of people's minds. President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord four years ago which dismantled the eight years of work the Obama Administration did to decrease fossil-fuel emissions. Biden has pledged to get the U.S. back into the accord and has promised a $2 trillion plan to overhaul transportation and power sectors to curb fossil fuel emissions.

Kerry is a former senator from Massachusetts, a Democratic presidential candidate (2004) and Obama's Secretary of State from 2013-2017. Environmental advocates from around the nation are mixed on their opinions of Kerry with some people saying his ideas are from years past and will not actually help the modern climate crisis.

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