Welcome to the President's Inbox.

I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boyes Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This is the second episode in a special 2004 U.S. election series here on the President's inbox.

From now until election day,

I will be sitting down with experts to unpack some of the most pressing challenges

in the next President's foreign policy inbox.

Today's topic is the Climate Change Challenge.

With me to discuss what the United States has done and might do to respond to a changing climate are Alice Hill and Verun Sivirom. Alice is the David M. Rubinstein senior fellow for energy and the

environment here at the Council. Alice's work focuses on the risks, consequences, in responses

associated with climate change. Before joining the Council in 2017, she was special assistant

to President Barack Obama and senior director for resilience policy

on the staff of the National Security Council, where she led the development of national policy

to build resilience to catastrophic risks, including climate change in biological threats.

Her most recent book is The Fight for Climate after COVID-19.

Barun is a senior fellow for energy and climate here at the council, a scientist by training.

He holds a PhD in condensed matter physics. He has experience working in the corporate

policymaking in think tank worlds. From 2021 to

23, he was the managing director for clean energy and senior advisor to Secretary John F. Carey,

the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for climate. Verroon then served as chief strategy officer at Orsted, a Fortune

Global 500 company that is the world's largest producer of offshore wind energy. The Financial Times

is named Verroon's 2018 book, Taming the Sun, which examines the future of solar energy,

is one of the best books of the decade.

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