Rick Heede

Rick Heede

Rick Heede has pursued a deep interest in climate change and mitigation for over thirty years, published books and articles on energy efficiency, and testified before Congress on energy policy. Rick is the principal of Climate Mitigation Services, founded in 2002 to conduct state-of-the-art emission inventories, verifications, and mitigation strategies for local governments, agencies, companies, consulting groups, and NGOs. Rick Heede is the co-founder, director and Chief Geographer of Climate Accountability Institute. As principal investigator of the Carbon Majors Project, Rick Heede offers the most complete picture to date of which institutions have extracted the fossil fuels that have been the root cause of climate change since the Industrial Revolution