Climate Change

Fellow Story

Coleman quoted in Time on Trump notification of UN of Paris accord exit

The Trump administration began the formal process to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, but says it’s willing to "re-engage" if terms more favorable to the U.S. are met. The State Department said it notified the United Nations that the U.S. will pull out of the global agreement as soon as it can under the terms of the 2015 accord, but President Donald Trump would agree to remain in the deal was reconfigured to be better for U.S. interests ... Observers said they doubted the administration truly intended to renegotiate the climate deal.
August 11, 2017
Fellow Story

Hsu quoted on 'dodgy' greenhouse gas data threatening Paris accord

Potent, climate-warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in official inventories, a BBC investigation has found....Among the key provisions of the Paris climate deal, signed by 195 countries in December 2015, is the requirement that every country, rich or poor, has to submit an inventory of its greenhouse-gas emissions every two years. Under UN rules, most countries produce "bottom-up" records, based on how many car journeys are made or how much energy is used for heating homes and offices.
August 10, 2017
Fellow Story

Golden quoted in Consumer Affairs on electric appliances and climate change

To slow climate change, lawmakers in a handful of states are proposing bills or passing laws that convert their local electricity grids to renewable sources. ...
July 17, 2017
Fellow Story

Pruitt's "Red Team-Blue Team" exercise a bad fit for EPA climate science

Fellow Kelly Levin says the process of opposing red and blue teams — the consensus on one side with an equal number of opponents on the other — might work well to encourage new ideas and test the strength of existing ideas but has no place in determining the science of a changing climate.
July 1, 2017
Fellow Story

Treading the fine line between climate talk and alarmism

Fellow Sarah Myhre writes on what it means to her to be a trusted public source of information on climate change. She writes "you cannot just be a content expert. You must also be a person. To earn trust in the public eye, you have to disclose your conflicts of interest. You must embrace transparency. You must articulate the limits of your expertise. You must come to see the line separating evidence and your own ideology."
June 23, 2017
Foundation News

Climate Leadership after Paris

We may be past the news cycle that focused on the dramatic but not totally surprising move by President Trump to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement, but as a foundation long committed to environmental leadership, we see the...
June 14, 2017
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Bruni Pizarro

2017 Fellow
Bruni Pizarro (she/ella) is the Director of Brand Strategy & Partner at For La Diáspora, a creative studio that connects brands to the Latine community through culturally-driven design and bilingual communications. Her family migrated from...
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Jeremy Poindexter

2017 Fellow
Jeremy Poindexter is currently a Senior Battery Engineer at Sila Nanotechnologies, working on integrating silicon-based materials into lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles to enhance energy storage and increase vehicle range. He has...
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Adam Hasz

2017 Fellow
Adam Hasz is a Home Energy Rebates Implementation Advisor for the U.S. Department of Energy. He strives to advance a more equitable clean energy economy through research and planning. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Adam earned a...
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Daisy Benitez

2017 Fellow
Daisy is a senior consultant with EY's Climate Change and Sustainability Services group where she supports client's with their sustainability strategy, circular economy development, as well as analyzing the climate and water risk associated...