The Pew Environment Group

For the past two decades, Pew has been a major force in both informing and promoting conservation policy in the United States and, in recent years, internationally. Pew’s Environment Group is staffed by senior scientists, attorneys and policy experts, all of whom have had significant experience in government, nonprofit advocacy organizations and the private sector.

Our work is focused on reducing the scope and severity of three major global environmental problems:

• Dramatic changes to the Earth’s climate caused by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the planet’s atmosphere;
• The erosion of large wilderness ecosystems that contain a great part of the world’s remaining biodiversity; and
• The destruction of the world’s marine environment, with a particular emphasis on global fisheries.

Our mission is to protect and conserve natural resources in the United States and in various other parts of the world where we are engaged. In doing this, we seek to create a healthier and more sustainable environment for both people and nature. We focus primarily on promoting strong environmental policies that are informed and guided by sound science. Good policy depends on good science. Bad policy is often the result of decision makers ignoring what the science tells us, or not taking sufficient precautions to protect against the potential downsides of treading in areas where we lack reliable information.

Pew has played a critical role in the permanent protection of more than a hundred million acres of wilderness in North America. We have led the educational efforts to increase awareness on the part of the U.S. public, media and policy makers about the problem of climate change, and have catalyzed efforts to identify policy solutions at both the state and federal levels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, we have played a leadership role in bringing about a significant number of the major improvements in fisheries management and marine conservation that have occurred in the United States since the mid-1990s.

Our work is guided by many of the same principles that underlie sound business— discipline, focus and a commitment to producing measurable results — and, as in any entrepreneurial activity, we take risks. However, in doing so, we are mindful of our responsibility to return exceptional results, which means that we need to win far more often than we lose.

JOSHUA S. REICHERT
DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENT GROUP

Contact

Daniel Klotz
Communications Officer
Pew Environment Group|
The Pew Charitable Trusts
p: 202-887-8855 | c: 347-307-2866

dklotz@pewtrusts.org

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