December 22, 2009 | Posted by EDF Blogs in Fred Krupp, Peter Goldmark
Featuring:
Fred Krupp, President
Peter Goldmark, Program Director, Climate and Air
Join us right after the talks for a candid debrief with the EDF Copenhagen team. What happened? And where do we go from here?
Listen to this discussion:
November 5, 2009 | Posted by EDF Blogs in Fred Krupp, Global Warming, Steve Cochran
Featuring:
Fred Krupp, President
Steve Cochran, Director, National Climate Campaign
Getting Climate through the Senate
Following our victory in June, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act, we are now fully engaged in the push to reach sixty votes in the Senate. We’re up against opponents who are tougher, more partisan, and better funded than ever.
With that in mind, Environmental Defense Fund partnered with others to create Clean Energy Works, an unprecedented coalition of more than 60 environmental, civil rights, faith, labor, and veterans organizations working together to pass climate legislation.
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August 3, 2009 | Posted by EDF Blogs in Fred Krupp, Steve Cochran
Featuring:
Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund
Steve Cochran, Director, National Climate Campaign
With your help, we passed climate legislation through the House. Just one more hurdle in the Senate and the bill will be on the President's desk. But it's a steep hurdle.
We are up against formidable forces: industry opponents who already have hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank; an economy that makes everyone anxious and pushes the environment down the agenda; and right-wing media demagogues who are using climate legislation to gin up ugly populist anger.
We must win this fight. We have a window of opportunity, but the window will not stay open much longer. That is why the environmental community has agreed to come together in an unprecedented effort, reorganizing and mobilizing ourselves into one streamlined, turbo-charged campaign with only one goal: to get climate legislation passed.
Listen to our discussion on the challenges and opportunities we face in the coming weeks.
April 21, 2009 | Posted by EDF Blogs in David Yarnold, Steve Cochran
Date: Monday, April 20th, 2009, 4:00 p.m. EST
Featuring:
David Yarnold, Executive Director
Steve Cochran, Director, National Climate Campaign
Congress has fired the starting gun on the most important legislative fight of our lives. Just last week, Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D- MA) released a draft climate and energy bill that could unleash America’s green energy future and combat global warming.
Listen to this up-to-the-minute discussion on the challenges and opportunities we face in the next seven weeks.
January 20, 2009 | Posted by EDF Blogs in David Yarnold, Elizabeth Thompson, Global Warming
Date: Thursday, January 15th, 2009, 4:00 p.m. EST
Featuring:
David Yarnold, Executive Director
Mark Brownstein, Managing Director of Business Partnerships
Elizabeth Thompson, Legislative Director
Listen to breaking news regarding the U.S. Climate Action Partnership—news that we believe could be a game-changer in Environmental Defense Fund’s efforts to pass strong and effective climate change legislation.
United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) is a group of businesses and leading environmental organizations that have come together to call on the federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.
January 7, 2009 | Posted by EDF Blogs in David Yarnold, Diane Regas, Oceans
Date:
Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 4:00 p.m. EST
Featuring:
David Yarnold, Executive Director
Diane Regas, Associate Vice President, Oceans Program, Environmental Defense Fund
Doug Rader, Chief Oceans Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
Enric Sala, Scientist, National Geographic Explorer
President Bush announced the creation of three new marine protected areas that, combined, would be larger than California. These marine treasures include the Northern Marianas and the Central Pacific Islands, uninhabited havens for coral reefs, fish, sea turtles and migratory birds.
Hear from key scientists and EDF Oceans staff on the importance of these areas and how our advocacy efforts over two years, along with our partner organization – Marine Conservation Biology Institute – made this designation possible.
December 17, 2008 | Posted by EDF Blogs in David Yarnold, Global Warming, Jennifer Haverkamp, Peter Goldmark
Date:
Monday, December 15, 2008 – 1pm ET
Featuring:
David Yarnold, Executive Director
Peter Goldmark, Program Director, Climate & Air
Jennifer Haverkamp, Managing Director, International Policy & Negotiations
More than 10,000 participants from over 190 countries gathered in Poland to continue to lay the groundwork for the next global climate agreement. Environmental Defense Fund had a strong delegation there, with staff from both our international and national climate teams. Read our blog.
How is the new political climate in the U.S. affecting international negotiations on climate change? What will be the impacts of the global financial turmoil on the global warming dialogue? Hear the inside story on what happened at the Poland talks and to discuss the implications for the ongoing global negotiations.
November 5, 2008 | Posted by EDF Blogs in Conference Calls, Fred Krupp, Global Warming, Steve Cochran
President-elect Obama is committed to taking action on Climate Change, but there are many competing priorities on the agenda. It will be a heavy lift, but at Environmental Defense Fund, we see an opportunity of a lifetime to address global warming in ways that will benefit the environment AND the economy.
Date: Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, 1:00 p.m. EST
Featuring:
Fred Krupp, President
Steve Cochran, Director, National Climate Campaign
October 15, 2008 | Posted by EDF Blogs in David Festa, Derek Walker
Date:
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 – 10:30-11:30am PDT
Featuring:
David Festa, Vice President, West Coast, EDF
Derek Walker, California Climate Initiative, EDF
With Special Guest:
Mary Nichols, Chairman, CARB
Governor Schwarzenegger signed the boldest global warming law in U.S. history, AB 32, less than 2 years ago. Since that time, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has been hard at work on a blueprint detailing how they will implement the landmark legislation. CARB released their final proposed blueprint – dubbed the "AB 32 Scoping Plan" – in early October. CARB chair Mary Nichols joined us to talk about the highlights and the role EDF is playing in the process.
This call was the second in a series of teleconference calls and communications EDF will be offering to keep you informed of new developments and progress on California's ground-breaking Global Warming Solutions Act.
September 22, 2008 | Posted by EDF Blogs in David Festa, Diane Regas
A landmark study in Science magazine shows that the focus of EDF's Oceans program – a fisheries management system called "catch shares" – is the only management system that prevents overfishing. In fact, the study finds, catch shares actually reverse overfishing and return fisheries to abundance.
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 2pm ET
Featuring:
David Festa, Vice President, West Coast
Diane Regas, Managing Director, Oceans program
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