• Climate Change

Gold Standard, WWF, and EDF Talk Greenwashing and Credible Climate Strategies at Climate Week NYC

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• Climate Week NYC 2021
• WWF

By Alex Bowman, ODP Contributing Writer At the Climate Week NYC event Beyond Net Zero: Credible, Ambitious Climate Strategies, experts from Gold Standard, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), spoke about how companies can best mitigate the damages they might inflict on the environment. The speakers defined the concept of “net […]

• Ocean

Portraits of Change: Climate Change Is Challenging Fishing in the U.S.

• #EDF
• climate change
• fisheries
• ocean
• ocean warming
• shifts

This week, we have featured this series of videos by the Environmental Defense Fund about the impacts climate change is having on the ocean as observed by the people who live and work there — fishermen and women. Their stories have been compelling and provided a sense of the ways that climate change is harming and shifting global fish stocks. 

Why This Matters:  On Tuesday, pursuant to President Biden’s climate executive order, NOAA announced: “an agency-wide effort to gather initial public input” on “how to make fisheries, including aquaculture, and protected resources more resilient to climate change.

• Ocean

Interview of the Week, Eric Schwaab, SVP, Oceans at the Environmental Defense Fund

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• climate change
• electronic monitoring
• Environmental Defense Fund
• fisheries
• technology

We have excerpted portions of his interview below.  Thank you, Eric, for speaking with ODP! ODP:  There have been many studies documenting the impact that climate change is having on fish stocks.  Is EDF seeing this actually play out in its fisheries work here in the U.S. and worldwide? ES: Yes. Ten years ago we […]