Vitality Innovation right this moment congratulated its Founder Hal Harvey on his retirement after 38 years of service mitigating local weather change, together with a decade main the agency.
Hal based Vitality Innovation in 2012 to mitigate local weather change by selling the best and equitable power insurance policies, based mostly on science and knowledge, centered on the world’s largest emitting nations and financial sectors. Previous to Vitality Innovation he served as Founder and Chief Government Officer of the Vitality Basis, a philanthropy supporting coverage options to advance renewable power and power effectivity, from 1991 to 2002. From 2002 to 2008, Hal served as Surroundings Program Director on the William and Flora Hewlett Basis. After that, Hal served as Founder and CEO of ClimateWorks Basis, a worldwide platform for philanthropy to innovate and speed up local weather options at scale, earlier than founding Vitality Innovation.
”Working with good, devoted individuals, and making a distinction measured in billions of tons of carbon abatement are the dual motivators—and rewards—for this work. That’s all been leavened by excellent help, friendship, steerage, and partnership all through my profession,” stated Hal. “I gained’t say goodbye as a result of I don’t intend to evaporate fairly but—however I’m very a lot wanting ahead to the possibility to learn a e-book, journey for curiosity’s sake, and wander some trails.”
Hal authored a whole bunch of papers on the necessity to handle local weather change, options to eradicate greenhouse gases, insurance policies that mitigate local weather and enhance nationwide safety, and philanthropy as a software for impression. He printed 4 books, Safety With out Warfare: A Submit-Chilly Warfare International Coverage, Cash Nicely Spent: A Strategic Plan for Good Philanthropy, Designing Local weather Options: A Coverage Information for Low-Carbon Vitality, and The Massive Repair.
Hal has served on power panels appointed by Presidents Bush (41) and Clinton, and helped launch numerous environmental and local weather non-profits, all whereas serving on dozens of boards over time. He has acquired quite a few awards for his work to battle local weather change together with the Heinz Award for the Surroundings in 2016, the United Nation’s Clear Air and Local weather Change Award in 2018, and the California Air Assets Board’s Haagen-Smit Clear Air Award in 2019.
“Hal has left an indelible mark on historical past. It’s no exaggeration to say he has impressed a era of local weather coverage leaders and thinkers. He has a singular readability of imaginative and prescient, a relentless concentrate on the options that may scale as much as meet the local weather disaster in time, a seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of power, the power to convey individuals collectively to construct efficient organizations which might be impressed to win, and an nearly magical functionality to make all of it occur,” stated Sonia Aggarwal, CEO of Vitality Innovation. “He has devoted his life’s work to all of us, and other people throughout the globe will be capable to breathe just a little simpler whereas residing higher lives, due to Hal.”
Sonia grew to become Vitality Innovation’s CEO in February of 2023, as step one in Hal’s transition, and can proceed her position as CEO.
“I’ve the deepest thanks for the many individuals who’ve supported this work, joined in analysis and writing, performed their fingers at serving to me make this transition towards retirement, and supplied friendship at each flip,” stated Harvey. “Most because of you all!”
Hal’s tireless work on behalf of unpolluted air, sturdy economies, and a secure local weather has made a distinction serving to policymakers advance local weather change options that work for individuals and their communities. Please be a part of our staff at Vitality Innovation in thanking him for his management and repair to the USA and world.