Washington ¨C The video rollouts of President-elect Joe Biden¡¯s pick for Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, and National Economic Council director, Brian Deese, began biographically. But they quickly shifted to focus on an issue that could distinguish Biden¡¯s core economic team from its predecessors: climate change.
Yellen promised an agenda to promote ¡°investments that will create jobs and address the tremendous challenge of climate change.¡± Biden introduced Deese by calling him the first NEC director who is a ¡°true expert on climate policy.¡±
Both were clear signs that, even as Biden confronts the immediate task of accelerating the pandemic recovery, he has placed the longer-running climate challenge at the center of his administration¡¯s economic priorities.
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