• U.S. President-elect Joe Biden discusses his administration's economic policy and appointees in Wilmington, Delaware, on Dec. 1. In announcing key economic advisers in the White House and the cabinet, the president-elect has emphasized action to boost clean energy and reduce emissions. | KRISTON JAE BETHEL/THE NEW YORK TIMES
    U.S. President-elect Joe Biden discusses his administration's economic policy and appointees in Wilmington, Delaware, on Dec. 1. In announcing key economic advisers in the White House and the cabinet, the president-elect has emphasized action to boost clean energy and reduce emissions. | KRISTON JAE BETHEL/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Washington – The video rollouts of President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, and National Economic Council director, Brian Deese, began biographically. But they quickly shifted to focus on an issue that could distinguish Biden’s core economic team from its predecessors: climate change.

Yellen promised an agenda to promote “investments that will create jobs and address the tremendous challenge of climate change.” Biden introduced Deese by calling him the first NEC director who is a “true expert on climate policy.”

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