2024 Power Players in Climate, Energy & Sustainability
Stephan Edel, Executive Director, NY Renews
Organizing nearly 400 organizations means navigating lots of priorities and personalities. Since helping the NY Renews coalition win New York’s landmark Climate Act in 2019, Executive Director Stephan Edel has done just that. Before NY Renews, Edel worked for over a decade on policy and legislation for Working Families, was a union and community organizer, and got a J.D. from CUNY Law and a master’s degree from Birkbeck College, London.
What is one thing your organization hopes to accomplish in 2024?
NY Renews works towards a just, equitable, and thriving state that runs on renewable energy. Our 2024 focus is to ensure that the climate law is funded and implemented at every New York agency and authority, including the design of the state’s proposed pollution cap and investment system. Based on how we implement it, we know the policy will either harm our communities or help drive investment in grassroots-led solutions by and for disadvantaged communities.