It’s pretty clear that the #1 climate hawk choice to fill Janet Yellen’s new climate role is @SBloomRaskin

By a mile 😎
Unlike just about anyone else she was vocally opposed to Federal Reserve bond buying propping up fossil fuel companies

So vocal and climate forward she wrote an op-ed about it in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/opinion/fed-fossil-fuels.html
Opinion | Why Is the Fed Spending So Much Money on a Dying Industry?

It should not be directing money to further entrench the carbon economy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/opinion/fed-fossil-fuels.html
More recently she advocated in the FT for the US to leapfrog the world in developing regulations to address the mother of all systemic risks - climate change https://on.ft.com/38y9iOl 
US climate finance is approaching a leapfrog moment

This year will be a chance to take global leadership of the issue with an American approach 

https://on.ft.com/38y9iOl
And of course given past roles and experience including at the Fed she actually knows how to get thinks done in the clunky machinery of government

So in summary it’s an open and shut case

Make SBR Yellen’s climate coordinator

The crowd will go wild 🙌
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