Harvard Business School Professor Michael Toffel discussed MethaneSAT with Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) on July 31, 2024. The conversation was an episode of Toffel’s podcast, Climate Rising, which explores the interface of climate change and business.

The podcast episode is available here.

MethaneSAT is unique not only in its superior ability to detect methane emissions but in that it was conceived and implemented by a non-governmental organization – Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). EDF has focused on reducing methane emissions for years, and MethaneSAT is a giant step forward in advancing that mission. Once the instrument is calibrated and tested later in 2024, data from MethaneSAT will be freely available to anyone.

For more on MethaneSAT from the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University, see here and here.

Michael Toffel is a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, a University-wide Research Cluster supported by the Salata Institute. He is also Faculty Chair of Harvard Business School’s Business and Environment Initiative.