Fred Krupp has been the president of Environmental Defense Fund, a U.S.-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group since 1984. Considered a key architect of the Kyoto Protocol and someone who has worked towards convincing corporations of environmentalism, he received the 2015 William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award.
Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.
It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.
For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering.