DAccording to media reports, American climate envoy John Kerry will resign from his post. The 80-year-old politician instead wants to work for the campaign team of President Joe Biden, who will run for a second term in the White House in the presidential election in November, numerous American media outlets reported unanimously on Saturday. Kerry wants to highlight Biden's successes in the fight against global warming.

According to the online portal “Axios”, the former foreign minister, senator and Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 wants to resign as special climate envoy before spring. The White House and Kerry's office did not initially respond to a request from the AFP news agency about the personnel.

Biden made Kerry his climate envoy after he moved into the White House at the beginning of 2021. The veteran diplomat represented the United States at three global climate summits, most recently at COP28 in Dubai in December. Among other things, Kerry tried to persuade China to cooperate in the fight against climate change despite strained relations with the United States, and had some successes.

Biden has made the fight against global warming a central theme of his presidency. The Democratic Party politician returned the United States to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, from which his predecessor Donald Trump withdrew, and is aggressively pushing forward the expansion of renewable energy in the United States.

For many environmentalists, however, he is not taking decisive enough action to move away from fossil fuels. The conservative Republicans, on the other hand, accuse the president of harming the economy with his climate policy.