Oliver Milman

If a week is a long time in politics, the past year has been an eternity for Jerome Foster. In the opening stanza of 2020, the 18-year-old was holding forlorn weekly protests outside the White House calling for action on the climate crisis. Now, he has been ushered into the seat of American power to help craft climate policy.

The U.S. will officially exit the Paris accord one day after the 2020 U.S. election, and architects of that deal say the stakes could not be higher.

Covering Climate Now: Amid a Democratic primary shaped by alarm over the climate crisis and an insurgent youth climate movement sweeping the world, new polling shows substantial if uneven support for tackling the issue.