Climate Policy Office

The White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy (Climate Policy Office, or CPO) implements the President’s domestic climate agenda, coordinating an all-of-government approach to tackle the climate crisis, create good-paying, union jobs, and advance environmental justice.

The Climate Policy Office staff leads policy development and implementation in each sector of the economy – power, transportation, industry, buildings, and lands and waters – as well as through cross-cutting efforts on resilience, innovation, supply chains, workforce, and environmental justice. Charged with strengthening U.S. climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, the staff is comprised of scientists, engineers, lawyers, economists, and other technical experts. Broadly, CPO works to ensure that U.S. climate policy decisions and programs align with the President’s stated goals and that those goals are being effectively pursued – bending the curve on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, safeguarding public health, revitalizing American manufacturing, boosting U.S. global competitiveness and energy security, strengthening climate resilience, and doing the work of economic uplift for the American people.

President Biden established the Climate Policy Office in the January 27, 2021, Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. He appointed Ali Zaidi as Assistant to the President and White House National Climate Advisor, heading the Climate Policy Office and reporting to the President, and Mary Frances Repko as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Climate Advisor. Gina McCarthy served as the first-ever White House National Climate Advisor (2021-2022).