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Daphne Prodis
Stories Fellow
Young people want climate careers. Employers need to adapt.
I have worked in the sustainability space for almost a decade. In that time, I have witnessed my parents struggle to tell their friends what their daughter does for work; my friends who work in tech smile and nod when I talk about climate policy; and strangers apologize to me for not recycling.
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Eric Toensmeier
Senior Fellow
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Eric Toensmeier
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Eric Toensmeier
Eric Toensmeier is a writer, trainer, and consultant working on agricultural climate change mitigation. Eric has served as a senior fellow with Project Drawdown and the Global Evergreening Alliance, and a lecturer at Yale University. He specializes in agroforestry and perennial crops. At Project Drawdown, he supervises research fellows assessing solutions in the Food, Agriculture, Land, and Ocean and Nature-Based Carbon Removal sectors. His books include The Carbon Farming Solution and Trees with Edible Leaves.
Stephan Nicoleau: The business case for curbing methane
Reducing methane emitted by agriculture, fossil fuels, and landfills is one of the most important and effective actions we can take to stabilize Earth’s climate.
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Sarah Gleeson, Ph.D.
Climate Solutions Research Manager
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Jason Lam
Research Fellow
5 ways to boost US–China diplomacy for people and the planet
Recently, the new United States and Chinese climate envoys, John Podesta and Liu Zhenmin, met for the first time. The meeting came amid expectations that the Biden administration would increase tariffs on Chinese goods such as EVs, solar equipment, batteries, and critical minerals.
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Stephen Agyeman, Ph.D.
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Stephen Agyeman, Ph.D.
Stephen D. Agyeman, Ph.D., is a researcher, writer, and policy advocate with expertise in electricity and industrial sector decarbonization. His research focuses on low-carbon fuels, clean technologies innovation, energy economics, and policy regulation. He earned his doctorate in energy economics and management from Xiamen University, where he studied (de)regulation’s contribution to advancing negative emission technology in Africa. Stephen's career has spanned the electric power sector, academia, think tanks, and international development with Genser Energy Ghana, the World Bank Group, the University of Strathclyde, and more. At Project Drawdown, he is focusing on the electricity and transport sectors.
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Sarah Gleeson, Ph.D.
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Sarah Gleeson, Ph.D.
Sarah Gleeson, Ph.D., is a materials scientist with expertise in plastics, carbon removal, and science communication. She earned her doctorate from Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she wrote her thesis on designing a nanoscale synthetic bone composite. Previously, Sarah was a scientist at Running Tide studying ocean carbon removal and a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab researching surfactants at liquid interfaces. Her research interests include systems-level decarbonization, waste mitigation, and global materials circularity. At Project Drawdown, she is analyzing the impact of emissions reductions in the industrial sector and the techno-economic potential of engineered carbon sinks. She also supervises research fellows assessing solutions in the Electricity, Industry, Buildings, Transportation, Other Energy, and Industrial Carbon Removal sectors.