Avoided Deforestation Partners - News and Events

Washington, D.C. – On February 9th, AD Partners hosted a major Capitol Hill briefing with a unique lineup of advocates, including Senators Kerry and Lugar, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, and a diverse list of NGO Presidents, corporate leaders and other honored guests.

Protecting tropical forests is an essential strategy in the fight against climate change, and the United States must take a leadership role on the issue, the multi-sector alliance of leaders from across the political, environmental, development and business spectrum declared today. In a unified voice, CEOs and presidents of international conservation groups, poverty and development organizations and American industry joined Senators John Kerry and Richard Lugar in calling for Congress to include strong tropical forest protection measures in U.S. climate change legislation.

The Call for Leadership has already been signed by more than thirty of the world’s leading corporations, elected leaders, nonprofit organizations and policy experts. The event marked the first such multi-sector advocacy for a common policy approach on forests and climate change, and the participants emphasized both the uniqueness and urgency of the moment.

Former Chief Negotiator, Stuart Eizenstat	Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai	Frances Beinecke – NRDC

Senator John Kerry presentation	Call for Leadership – Panel Discussion by leaders from conservation, poverty alleviation and industry

Featured Speakers, Panelists and Honored Guests included:

Wangari Maathai — Founder, Green Belt Movement
Hon. John Kerry — Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Richard Lugar — Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arne Sorenson — CFO, Marriot International, Inc.
David Barron — President, International Conservation Caucus Foundation
Frances Beinecke — President, Natural Resources Defense Council
Helene Gayle — President and CEO, Care USA
James Warren Evans — Director, Environment Department, World Bank
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — Environmentalist, Former Lt. Governor, Maryland
Kevin Conrad — Director, Coalition for Rainforest Nations
Kevin Knobloch — President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Mark Tercek — President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Michael Morris — Chairman, president and CEO, American Electric Power
Peter Seligmann — Chairman, Conservation International
Raymond Offenheiser — President, Oxfam America
Robert Corell — Director of the Global Change Program, The Heinz Center
Stuart Eizenstat — Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Teresa Heinz — Chair, The Heinz Endowments

Event Organizing Group:

Jeff Horowitz — Founding Partner, Avoided Deforestation Partners

Charlotte Streck — Director, Climate Focus B.V.

Rick Saines — Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP

Toby Janson-Smith — Senior Director, Conservation International

Robert O'Sullivan — Executive Director, Climate Focus North America

Ann Tartre — Executive Director, Avoided Deforestation Partners

Aimee Christensen — Founder and CEO, Christensen Global Strategies, LLC

Andrew Jones — Director, Climate Group, Care USA

Eric Haxthausen — Climate Change Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy

Holly Fechner — Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP

Jake Schmidt — International Climate Change Policy Director Natural Resources Defense Council

Kyle Danish — Partner, Van Ness Feldman, P.C.

Mari Snyder — Communications Director, Marriott International, Inc.

Marty McBroom — Director Federal Environmental Affairs, American Electric Power

Nigel Purvis — President, Climate Advisers

Peter Frumhoff — Chief Scientist, Climate Campaign, Union of Concerned Scientists

Ryan Cunningham — Director, The Glover Park Group

Susan Lylis — Executive Director, International Conservation Caucus Foundation

Steve Kline — Vice President Corporate Environmental and Federal Affairs, PG&E Corporation

Steve Schwartzman — Director for Tropical Forest Policy Environmental Defense Fund

Wanjira Maathai — Executive Director, Green Belt Movement

Participants (Not including Congressional Staff):

Adam Chapman — Project Manager, Avoided Deforestation Partners

Adotei Akwei — Director, Government Affairs, Care USA

Albert Cho — Manager, McKinsey & Company

Amy Gambrill — Carr Foundation

Annie Petsonk — International Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund

Anna Maria Schneider — Director, Industry and Government Relations, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc

Barbara Bramble — Senior Program Advisor, International Affairs, National Wildlife Federation

Bart Simmons — Chief Operating Officer, Ecosystem Restoration Assoc. Inc.

Bill Goodfellow — Executive Director, Center for International Policy

Bob Musil — Former CEO, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Bobbie Hertel — Environmentalist

Carter Bales — Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company

Cassie Pataky — Director, U.S., Green Belt Movement

Charles Barber — Environmental Advisor, Office of Environment and Science Policy, USAID

Charles Hall — Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP

Charles McNeill — Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Energy Group, UNDP

Chris Tuite — Director of Forest Carbon Markets, Conservation International

Christian Stenberg — First Secretary, Embassy of Denmark

Christina DeConcini — Director of Legislative Affairs, World Resources Institute

Consuelo Espinosa — Senior Forest and Climate Change Officer, IUCN

Cynthia Awuor — Regional Climate Change Advisor, East Africa, CARE International

Cynthia Ryan — Executive Director, Schooner Foundations

Dan Zarin — Senior Advisor, Tropical Forest Carbon Strategy, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

David Waskow — Climate Change Program Director, Oxfam US

Dharsono Hartono — Project Director, PT. Rimba Makmur Utama

Diane Fitzgerald — (forestry projects), American Electric Power

Donna Lee — Office of Global Change, US Department Of State

Duncan Marsh — Director of International Climate Policy The Nature Conservancy

Duncan Stewart — Environment and Energy, Embassy of Canada

Eric Young — Climate and energy press secretary, Natural Resources Defense Council

Eric Palola — Senior Director, Forests for Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation

Erika Harms — Director, Sustainable Development Program, UN Foundation

Erika Nortemann — Photographer, The Nature Conservancy

Eron Bloomgarden — President, Environmental Markets Group, Equator Environmental LLC

Federica Bietta — Deputy Director, Coalition for Rainforest Nations

Griel Thoumi — Forestry Director, MGM International Group, LLC

Gerrity Lansing — President, Equator Environmental

Gerry Hertel — Forest Ecologist, Westchester University

Gia Schneider — Partner, Eko Asset Management Partners

Glenn Prickett — Senior Vice-President, Conservation International

Gonzalo Castro — Managing Director, Americas, Sustainle Forestry Management

Gus Silva-Chavez — International Climate Change Policy Analyst Environmental Defense Fund

Henry Stern — Volunteer, Avoided Deforestation Partners

Hiranya Fernando — Senior Associate, Capital Markets Research, World Resources Institute

James Rubin — Senior Attorney, Hunton & Williams LLP

James Baker — Director, Global Carbon Measurement Program, Clinton Climate Initiative

Jan Hartke — Director, Clinton Climate Initiative

Janet Peace — VP Markets and Business Strategy, Pew Center

Jason Patlis — Vice President and Managing Director, World Wildlife Fund

Jeff Waldon — Executive Director, Tropical Forest Foundation

Jennifer Denney — Strategic Communications, The Nature Conservancy

Jennifer Layke — Deputy Director, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute

Joanna Durbin — Director, CCBA

JoDee Winteroff — Care USA

John Lewis — Terra Global Capital

John Van D. Lewis — Managing Director, Terra Global Capital

Joshua Meltzer — First Secretary (Trade Policy), Embassy of Australia

Kanika Riley — Care USA

Karen Neale — Manager, Government Relations, International Paper Company

Karen Foerstel — Senior Media and Marketing Manager, The Nature Conservancy

Katherine Hamilton — Manager, Ecosystem Marketplace

Keith Belton — Director of Government Affairs, Environment and Energy, Dow Chemical

Kevin Hogan — Advisor, President of Guyana, office of the president of Guyana

Kristen Pattersen — Associate Director, Africa Program, The Nature Conservancy

Laura Bowling — Senior Vice President Communications, Conservation International

Lee Stein — Chairman, Prize Capital

Leslie Durschinger — Managing Director, Terra Global Capital

Lisa Merton — Filmmaker, Marboro Productions

Malachy Hargadon — Environment Counselor, Delegation of the European Commission

Manuel Oliva — Director, U.S. Climate Policy, Conservation International

Mario-Ingo Soos — energy and environmental, German Embassy

Marisa Martin — Associate Baker & McKenzie LLP

Matt Ogonowski — Senior Policy Analyst, Center For Clean Air Policy

Max Williamson — Principal, Beveridge & Diamond

Melissa McHenry — Corporate Communications, American Electric Power

Melissa Lavinson — PG&E

Michael Jenkins — President and CEO, Forest Trends

Mya Walters — Carbon Neutral Project, Volkswagen Group of American, Inc

Nick Bridge — Counsellor for Global Issues, British Embassy

Pat Hemlepp — Corporate Communications, American Electric Power

Patrick Hughes — Climate and Energy, UN Foundation

Patrick Smith — USAID

Per Frederik Ilsaas Pharo — Deputy Director, Ministry of Environment, Norway

Peter Jenkins — Director of International Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife

Peter Molinaro — Vice President, Federal and State Government Affairs The Dow Chemical Company

Peter Schwach — Senior Partner, Thurlestone Capital LLP

Radha Kuppalli — Director, New Forests, Inc.

Ralph Schmidt — Forester

Ralph Ashton — Convenor and Chair, Terrestrial Carbon Group

Ray Kopp — Director, Climate and Technology Policy Program, Resources for the Future

Rhett Butler — Founder and Editor, Mongay

Robert Falls — President and CEO, Ecosystem Restoration Assoc.

Sally Collins — Director of Ecosystem Services and Markets, Forest Service

Sarah Hines — Presidential Management Fellow, US Department Of Agriculture

Sigrid Bay — First Secretary, Royal Norwegian Embassy

Stephen Mills — Director, International Programs, Sierra Club

Steve Porter — Director, Climate Change, Center for International Environmental Law

Steve McBee — President And CEO, McBee Strategic Consulting

Ted Dreyfus — Managing Director, Clinton Climate Initiative

Warwick Manfrinato — Director, Plant