2025 Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism Recipient
Environmental Defense Fund
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is accelerating the transition to affordable, clean, reliable, and low-carbon energy solutions to create a safer and healthier world for people, nature and the economy. In key global regions, EDF is working on solutions to overcome major energy challenges at a scale consistent with the cuts in climate pollution required to hit global temperature targets and to sustain a livable, thriving planet. EDF’s goal is to bend the curve on global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel production and use by 2030, cleanly and equitably. In an effort to meet this goal, EDF launched MethaneSAT in 2024 with the objective to provide a comprehensive view of oil & gas emissions in order to increase transparency and accountability from countries and companies towards their emission reduction goals.
EDF is working with partners around the world, and across the public and private sectors, to use the power of markets and technology to drive down pollution quickly and affordably - and to shift the world to clean energy as fast as possible. Their areas of focus include methane from fossil fuel production, clean electricity, transportation, and fuels and feedstocks. To achieve their goals, they seek reforms in law, regulation, and/or business practice through a mix of strategic corporate partnerships, direct engagement with policymakers, and mobilizing investor and public sentiment in favor of change.
EDF Executive Director Amanda Leland accepts the 2025 Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism from Dickinson President John E. Jones III '77, P'11. Photo by Dan Loh.
Dickinson will welcome the Environmental Defense Fund to campus for a residency in October 2025. Their residency will include the following events:
Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition to Low-Carbon Solutions
A panel discussion with staff of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
Tuesday, October 29, 7:00 pm, Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 360 W. Louther Street, Carlisle, PA 17013
Free and open to the public with livestream and recording available.
Panelists:
- Millie Chu Baird, Vice President, Office of the Chief Scientist, EDF
- Dan Grossman, Associate Vice President for Energy Transition, EDF
- Beth Trask, Global Vice President, EDF
Moderator: Neil Leary, Director of the Center for Sustainability Education