U.S. Nominates Lawlor and Chan to Global Climate Fund Board, Shifting Leadership from State to Treasury.

The United States has nominated Rebecca Lawlor, an economist and climate finance negotiator at the Treasury Department, and Christina Chan, a State Department official who represented the U.S. on a transitional committee that helped create the fund’s design, to sit on the board of the new global climate fund. The fund was established to help countries severely impacted by climate change. This move puts Treasury in the lead on the fund, replacing State which led negotiations over its creation. The seats were listed on the United Nations climate body’s website, ending a dispute over which countries would take 12 of the 26 seats dedicated to developed countries.