We were pleased to see John Kerry, the United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, addressing the ABA recently and speaking to the need for lawyers from all fields of practice to help advance climate solutions. “You are all climate lawyers now, whether you want to be or not,” said Kerry. “We need your skills, your expertise, and hard work to lay the legal pathways and to expedite our progress along that path; to identify existing laws that help implement the needed changes; to amend the laws that are a hindrance; and to draft the new laws that will turn novel ideas into implementable innovations.”
Needless to say, Kerry’s remarks underscore LPDD’s raison d’être, and we hope his timely speech helps drive lawyers towards our project and similar efforts. A video of Kerry’s remarks is available here. A transcript of his remarks is available here.