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Rebecca Dell
Senior Director, ClimateWorks Foundation
Rebecca Dell is senior director at ClimateWorks Foundation, responsible for its industry program. Prior to this, she was a climate strategy adviser at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Previously, Dell was a special adviser for energy policy at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Obama administration. There, she coordinated implementation of the Climate Action Plan and was a lead analyst and author of the U.S. Quadrennial Energy Review. Earlier in her career, Dell was a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and researched the interaction between the ocean and land-based ice sheets like those in Greenland and Antarctica. She holds a doctorate in climate science from MIT.
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The industrial sector—think steel, cement, chemicals, heat and cooling—accounts for approximately 30% of emissions in the United States, making industry our biggest emissions...