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Environmental Defense Fund at COP29

The road to a sustainable future starts now. This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference — COP29 — marks a crucial moment for global climate action. While we face the challenges of climate change today, we have the opportunity to create a safer and healthier world.

By shifting to clean energy, making food production more sustainable and protecting our planet’s wondrous ecosystems, we can help build a vital Earth for all.

At COP29, Environmental Defense Fund will work with partners to drive progress on these key challenges, with a focus on ensuring all communities have the funding they need to meet climate goals. Please join us.

EDF’s key priorities for COP29

We’re working with partners to advance climate action in these areas, emphasizing ambition and accountability:

  • Energy transition

    Pollution from burning fossil fuels harms our health and warms the climate. It is critical that countries move from dirty to clean energy — ensuring a just and equitable energy transition that improves the well-being of people and the planet.

  • Sustainable food

    Climate change disrupts food supplies. And modern food production fuels climate change. Reimagining the way we grow, harvest and raise food is crucial for stabilizing the climate, sustaining the livelihoods of farmers, ranchers and fishers, and feeding the world.

  • Natural climate solutions

    Nature is critical to our climate future and communities around the world. Thriving forests, lands and oceans store carbon and support people’s livelihoods. As countries update their climate commitments, they must include actions to restore and protect biodiversity.

  • Quality climate finance

    Meeting global climate goals will require the world to rapidly increase the amount of money going toward climate action in developing countries. We must ensure that climate finance is available to the communities that need it — without creating new costs or burdens.

COP29 events schedule

EDF will participate in a variety of events at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Nov. 11-22, to drive progress on solving the climate crisis.

Expert commentary

EDF experts share in-depth analysis, focusing on important issues leading up to COP29.

Meet our team driving climate action at COP29

Pedro Martins Barata
Associate Vice President
Carbon Markets and Private Sector Decarbonization
Mark Brownstein
Senior Vice President
Energy Transition
Jennifer Chow
Senior Director
Climate-Resilient Food Systems
Angela Churie Kallhauge
Executive Vice President
Impact
Angie Farrag-Thibault
Associate Vice President
Global Transportation
Steven Hamburg
Senior Vice President,
Chief Scientist
Juan Pablo Hoffmaister
Associate Vice President
Global Engagement and Partnerships
Kristin Kleisner
Associate Vice President
Oceans Science
Fred Krupp
President
Leslie Labruto
Managing Director
Sustainable Finance
Hongming Liu
Director
Carbon Market
Lars Roth
Director
Government Partnerships
John Tauzel
Senior Director
Global Agriculture Methane
Derek Walker
Vice President
Global Energy Transition
Xiaolu Zhao
Senior Director
Climate
 

COP29 experts guide (PDF)

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Past events on the road to COP29

EDF took part in key global events throughout the year, each building toward meaningful action at COP29 and beyond.

UN Biodiversity Conference — COP16
Conservation and climate action must go hand-in-hand. At COP16, EDF worked to advance solutions for protecting nature and its benefits to people and the planet.
Climate Week NYC
Explore EDF’s work at Climate Week NYC, where we zeroed in on key priorities: energy, sustainable food, natural climate solutions and climate finance.