• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Mark Brownstein

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Senior Vice President, Energy Transition

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.

Sessions With Mark Brownstein

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 01:30pm - 02:20pm (CST) / -

    New Technologies for Measuring & Reducing Methane

    Climate & Sustainability Clean Tech Innovation & Technology

    Methane’s powerful global-warming effect is attracting attention from policy makers and environmental NGOs. Although energy users and suppliers account for less than a quarter of global methane emissions, reducing methane leakage is one of the energy industry’s most effective ways to reduce its climate impact. What are the challenges to the practical implementation of methane reduction measures? How should industry address the public’s perception of its responsibility for methane emissions? What role should the oil, coal, and gas industries take?