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Elections & Our Environmental Outlook
Former EPA administrator CAROL BROWNER draws on her experience advising on environmental and energy policies to discuss current and proposed policies addressing climate change. Analyzing pressing issues ranging from electric vehicle adoption to widescale environmental protection policy proposals, Browner provides her informed perspective on the environmental issues brought forward by candidate platforms.
Thinking Green: Economic Strategies for the 21st Century
CAROL BROWNER’s unparalleled experience in energy and climate change policy empowers her to advise on the impact proposed legislation poses to individuals, corporations, and industries. Browner believes that sustainability is good for businesses, reflecting on her work on sustainability initiatives helping businesses to succeed in enhancing corporate responsibility, gaining market access, and developing strategic partnerships and business relationships. In this enlightening conversation, Browner identifies environmental and economic opportunities across many sectors.
Our Emerging Energy Future
CAROL BROWNER analyzes the regulatory and economic pressures driving changes in consumption and use, assessing how this will affect businesses and offering a pragmatic assessment on the need for energy to drive economies and how this need will be driven by practical approaches.
AI & the Future of Resource Management
In this future-facing talk, former EPA administrator CAROL BROWNER discusses how breakthroughs in AI technology will shape the future of environmental industry, particularly resource management. Providing examples of how technology can be implemented to integrate planet protection into core business objectives, Browner describes a future wherein corporations can contribute to a healthier and more balanced world.
Carol Browner believes businesses will play a role in a better tomorrow
Former EPA administrator CAROL BROWNER is better known as the “climate czar.” Browner’s global expertise is derived from leading environmental policy both as director of the EPA During the Clinton administration and director of the White House's energy and climate change policy office under the Barack Obama administration. Browner is uniquely positioned to advise corporations on climate initiatives spanning energy transition, ESG strategy, and climate risk. She understands issues around energy security and climate change, and the push-and-pull between business, regulators, and the environment, especially when it comes to carbon-free energy, of which Browner is a vocal advocate. Now serving on a range of board and advisory roles, Browner provides a clear roadmap to industries looking to drive positive change by embracing sustainable practices, reducing carbon footprints, and promoting responsible resource management.
Watch Carol Browner speak at the Natural Resources Committee >>
Watch Carol Browner’s remarks to the Healthy Oceans and Healthy Economies subcommittee >>
Climate policy change expert Carol Browner supports energy security in the U.S.
CAROL BROWNER helped shape America's energy policy as one of six members of President Biden's Climate Engagement Advisory Council during his campaign, Director of President Obama's Energy and Climate Change Policy, and Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency. Browner wrote Obama’s comprehensive plan for energy security. Her visionary leadership and outstanding environmental stewardship were recognized with the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Achievement Award. The Panetta Institute for Public Policy praised Browner’s “incisive facts and details in [her] comments with respect to government regulations that few in our audience would have known, as well as [her] good humor and personal anecdotes that enlivened the discussion.”
Watch Carol Browner on a White House livecast >>
Watch Carol Browner speak at Google’s GE Conference >>
Carol Browner speaks on how AI can help the environment
Former EPA administrator CAROL BROWNER is a public advocate for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in climate conservation efforts. Browner spoke at Klir’s “Boiling Point,” examining the intersection of AI and water management software. When joining Cervest’s Climate Intelligence Council, Browner pointed out, “Climate Intelligence is essential to the climate risk debate.” Browner, an expert in environmental innovation, sees a strong case for the use of AI in climate preservation.
Watch Carol Browner speak at the Natural Resources Committee >>
Watch Carol Browner’s remarks to the Healthy Oceans and Healthy Economies subcommittee >>
Carol M. Browner is Senior of Counsel at Covington & Burling. Ms. Browner is Chair of the League of Conservation Voters board, and serves on the Bunge Limited Board of Directors and First Student an EQT portfolio company
Browner served as an assistant to President Barack Obama and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, where she oversaw the coordination of environmental, energy, climate, transport, and related policy across the federal government. Previously, Browner was a founding principal of The Albright Group LLC from 2001 to 2008.
From 1993 to 2001, Browner served as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. As administrator, she adopted the most stringent air-pollution standards in our nation’s history, set a fine-particle clean air standard for the first time, and spearheaded the reauthorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as well as the Food Quality Protection Act.
From 1991 to 1993, Browner served as secretary of environmental regulation in Florida, where she launched the largest ecological restoration project ever attempted in the United States to restore the natural flow of water to the Everglades.
Browner serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for American Progress and was a founding board member of the organization.
Browner earned her B.A. and law degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville. She has one son and is married to former New York Congressman Tom Downey
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