99. Hope Is a Verb with Fred Krupp
With the Biden U.S. Climate Summit barely in the rearview mirror, our hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson unpack what this moment means for global leadership, ambition, and the gaps in the road ahead for the climate movement. The new U.S. NDC of 50% GHG reductions by 2030 sets the stage for the rest of the decade, so what is next?
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And our interview this week is with Fred Krupp, long-serving President of the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF). We discuss one of the most pressing and, until now, overlooked issues of methane leakage and emissions, and their wildly powerful short-term warming potential. EDF is launching a satellite soon that will track methane emissions around the world to keep us all accountable. Amazing.
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We also celebrate the announcement at the Biden summit of the launch of the LEAF Coalition, a project that the EDF is partnering in with both private sector and government participation, and the impact this private and public partnership will have on tackling the stubborn challenge of tropical deforestation on a meaningful scale.
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And be sure to hang around for a live performance from ViVii of their song \u2018One Day\u2019!
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Christiana + Tom\u2019s book \u2018The Future We Choose\u2019 is available now!
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Thank you to our guest this week, Fred Krupp!
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Fred Krupp
President of Environmental Defense Fund
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Environmental Defense Fund
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Our musical guest this week is ViVii!
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Their album \u201cMondays\u201d is dropping May 21st!
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