Former US Secretary of State John Kerry, will be the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Energy Institute (EI) President’s Award.
It is the most prestigious award made by the EI and will be made in recognition of Secretary Kerry’s outstanding contribution to global climate diplomacy and advocacy, for an ambitious and pragmatic clean energy transition.
He was President Obama’s Secretary of State and in 2021, he was appointed by President Biden as the first United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, a position he held until March last year.
Secretary Kerry said:
I am honored to receive the Energy Institute President’s Award, but view it as shared also by the innovators, entrepreneurs, activists, engineers and workers that collectively are driving forward the clean energy transition and creating a safer, more prosperous planet.
“I am more convinced than ever before that embracing modern, abundant clean energy solutions is not just the right thing to do – it’s also good business and sound economics.”
In making the award EI President Andy Brown said: “From brokering the historic Paris Climate Accord in 2015 through to the agreement at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels, Secretary Kerry has been pivotal, building trust and common ground across national boundaries – not least with China to bring about action from the planet’s two largest emitters.”
The award will be presented in London, at the end of International Energy Week next month.