• Politics

Third Way and EDF Talk Policy & Innovation at Climate Week NYC

• climate policy
• Environmental Defense Fund
• innovation
• Third Way

Last week was Climate Week NYC, and Third Way and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) came together to host speakers from across the country in a conversation on how thoughtful public policy can be a catalyst to empower climate innovation. The event, Meeting the Moment, featured speakers including: Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin Mandela Barnes; Board […]

• Air

62 Oil and Gas Companies Pledge to Reduce Methane, U.S. Companies Turn the Other Way

• air pollution
• Environmental Defense Fund
• flaring
• gas
• greenhouse gasses
• methane
• oil and gas
• UN Environment Program

This week, following a U.N. report showing that methane levels in the atmosphere are at an all-time high, more than 60 oil and gas companies joined a new voluntary agreement to report and reduce their emissions. The companies making the pledge represent 30% of global oil and gas operations, but none of them were American.

Why This Matters: According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the global oil and gas industry produced 82 gigatons of methane in 2019 alone.

• Ocean

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

• #EDF
• 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 […]