Fred Krupp
President
Description
Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp has guided EDF for four decades, overseeing its growth from a small nonprofit with a budget of $3 million to one of the world’s most influential environmental organizations, with an annual budget of more than $300 million and 1,000 employees. EDF works across the globe, including in the United States, China, India and Europe.
Krupp has pioneered innovative approaches to harnessing the power of the marketplace to protect our environment, including groundbreaking policies that have reduced U.S. sulfur dioxide pollution, which causes acid rain, by 90%.
In 2023, Krupp worked through the global climate talks, COP28, to help secure commitments from 50 oil and gas companies, representing 40% of global oil sales, to reduce their methane pollution by 90% by 2030.
As a leading voice on climate change, energy and corporate sustainability, Krupp appeared on the TED stage in 2018 to announce plans to launch MethaneSAT, a satellite that today measures and maps planet-warming methane pollution from the oil and gas industry worldwide. Now orbiting the Earth, this satellite is opening a new era of climate action — and accountability for corporate and national commitments. He was also a key advocate for the bipartisan overhaul of America’s chemical safety laws in 2016 and the passage of historic climate investments in 2022.
Krupp has led EDF’s groundbreaking corporate partnerships with FedEx, KKR, McDonald’s and others. He helped GM develop its plan to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2035. Most recently, Walmart announced it achieved the goal it set in partnership with EDF to cut a billion metric tons of climate pollution, equivalent to Japan’s annual climate emissions.
Krupp also has been a special adviser to top government leaders and served on three presidential commissions. In 2011, the Secretary of Energy appointed Krupp to the seven-member panel charged with recommending measures to reduce the environmental impact and improve the safety of shale gas production.
Background
Krupp was educated at Yale, where he was recently elected to the board of trustees, and at the University of Michigan Law School. He appears frequently in the media and was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report. He is a recipient of the 2015 William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award from the Center for Environmental Policy at American University.
Latest pieces
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Bloomberg Philanthropies, UNEP, Environmental Defense Fund, IEA, and RMI launch groundbreaking transparency and accountability measure for methane emissions
Bloomberg.org, September 19, 2024 -
Keep clean hydrogen clean
Energy Exchange, February 2, 2024 -
Transforming agrifood systems amidst the climate crisis (PDF)
Source, January 3, 2024 -
Wall Street Journal op-ed: To slow climate change, curb methane first
The Wall Street Journal, November 22, 2023 -
WSJ: The Politics and Science of Jet Fuel
The Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2023 -
TIME: New EPA standards will expand American's car options
TIME, June 15, 2023 -
WSJ: There’s a climate solution in dairy cows’ stomachs
Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2023 -
Hydrogen power isn’t as green as it looks
The Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2022
Press materials
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Fight to Protect Climate More Important Than Ever Before
November 6, 2024 -
Washington Voters Defend "Gold Standard" Climate Law, Underscoring that Ambitious Action is Popular
November 6, 2024 -
President Biden’s Vital Climate Leadership “Delivered Real, Positive Benefits for Everyone”
July 21, 2024 -
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Walks Away from Billions from Vital Congestion Pricing Program Set to Cut Pollution and Fund Transit Improvements
June 5, 2024 -
EPA Unveils Suite of Protections Addressing Power Plant Pollution of Our Air, Land and Water
April 25, 2024 -
Joe Lieberman’s Voice on Climate Action Will Be Missed
March 28, 2024 -
SEC Rule Will Help Protect Wall Street, Main Street Alike from Climate Financial Risk
March 6, 2024 -
MethaneSAT is Launching Today on Groundbreaking Mission to Protect the Climate
March 4, 2024