Mark Brownstein

Mark is Senior Vice President at the Environmental Defense Fund, a global environmental NGO with over a 50-year history of delivering bold game-changing climate solutions to build a vital Earth, for everyone. Mark leads EDF’s Energy Transition work, shaping the organization’s strategies to accelerate decarbonization in major emitting sectors including energy and transportation, in line with a net zero future. He is an authoritative voice on critical energy policy issues, such as the future role hydrogen in a clean energy economy. He is widely acknowledged to be a global expert on the issue of methane pollution and is actively involved in several cutting-edge initiatives to measure, monitor, and reduce this waste, including MethaneSAT, a subsidiary of EDF that will soon be the most advanced methane-tracking satellite in space, capable of measuring and reporting on methane emissions virtually anywhere on earth.