Craft and the Council: Will Kelly Knight Craft End Climate Action at the UN Security Council?

Apr 11, 2019 | Oli Brown
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In late February, Donald Trump announced Kelly Knight Craft, a 57-year-old Kentucky native, as his pick to succeed Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the United Nations.

Craft’s international experience is pretty limited: two years as the US ambassador to Canada. Even so, while the dates of her confirmation hearing have yet to be announced, it is likely that she’ll be confirmed by a Senate that already cleared her for the Canada post in 2017 and is somewhat overwhelmed by the historically high turnover in the Trump administration.