About the
Conference
Concurrent Keynote & Panel Sessions
Hosted by Project Drawdown, these are prerecorded sessions featuring plenary talks, each of which are 30-40 minutes in length. Find a topic that interests you.
January 8 Sessions will focus around the theme 'Latest Research'
January 9 Sessions will focus around the theme 'Call to Action'
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January
8
Climate Solutions for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods
Presenter(s)
Preeti Soni, Chief - Climate Change, Resilience and Energy at UNDP
January
8
Conscious Eating: Unite behind the (food) science
Presenter(s)
Charles Michel, Food Educator and Activist
January
8
Drawdown’s System of Solutions Helps Achieve the SDGs
Presenter(s)
Chad Frischmann, Senior Director of Research and Technology, Project Drawdown
Mamta Mehra, Senior Fellow - Land Use and Research Program Officer at Project Drawdown
Kevin Bayuk, Senior Fellow - Financial Modeling at Project Drawdown
Ryan Allard, Skilled, Entrepreneurial Researcher and Speaker on Climate Solutions
João Pedro Gouveia, Senior Researcher at Project Drawdown and CENSE, NOVA, University of Lisbon; and Board Member, DERA
Miranda Gorman, Senior Fellow - Industry at Project Drawdown
January
8
Energy Solutions: Electricity, Buildings, and Transportation, Implementing the Decarbonization Transition
Presenter(s)
Dan Kammen, Professor and Director for the Center for Environmental Policy and the department of Nuclear Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
João Pedro Gouveia, Senior Researcher at Project Drawdown and CENSE, NOVA, University of Lisbon; and Board Member, DERA
Tom Richard, Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment Bioenergy and Bioresource Engineering
Shalanda Baker, Professor of Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University and Co-Founder and Co-Director, Initiative for Energy Justice
January
8
Food as a climate solution
Presenter(s)
Martin Frick, Deputy of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Food System Summit 2021
January
8
Green Entrepreneurship: Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Europe Post-COVID-19
Presenter(s)
Joanna Drake, Deputy Director-General of Environment, EU Commission
January
8
Industry and Materials Solutions - solutions for a circular economy
Presenter(s)
Miranda Gorman, Senior Fellow - Industry at Project Drawdown
Yoni Shiran, Industrial Systems and Business Model Manager, SYSTEMIQ
Senorpe Asem-Hiablie, Assistant Research Professor, Penn State
Silpa Kaza, Urban Development Specialist, World Bank
Durwood Zelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
Maxime Begard, Director of the Paris Office for the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
January
8
Leveraging Girls’ Education for a New Green Learning Agenda
Presenter(s)
Christina Kwauk, Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings
January
8
Local to Global - Climate Adaptation Strategies: Perspectives from Zimbabwe
Presenter(s)
Dr. Albert Maipisi, Senior Lecturer at the Women’s University in Africa
January
8
Nature-based solutions for People and Planet
Presenter(s)
Dennis Garrity, Chair of the Board of the Global EverGreening Alliance, Chair, Landcare International, and Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Cheikh Mbow, Director, Future Africa (University of Pretoria)
Thomas Crowther, Scientific Advisor, UN Trillion Tree Campaign, Professor of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zürich
Mark E. Ritchie, Professor of Biology, Syracuse University
Mamta Mehra, Senior Fellow - Land Use & Research Program Officer at Project Drawdown
January
8
No Journey without a Compass - Building the SDG-Economy
Presenter(s)
Martin Stuchtey, Professor for Resource Strategy and Management at the University of Innsbruck and Founder and Managing Partner of SYSTEMIQ
January
8
Now, it's about the How
Presenter(s)
Gunhild Stordalen, Founder and Executive Chair, EAT
January
8
Ocean-based solutions for People and Planet
Presenter(s)
Emilia Jankowska, Senior Fellow - Oceans at Project Drawdown
Robin Pelc, Research Fellow - Oceans at Project Drawdown
Carlos Duarte, Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Susan Gardner, Division Director, UNEP Ecosystems Division
Rashid Sumaila, professor of Ocean and Fisheries Economics, University of British Columbia, Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Bren Smith, Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder, Greenwave
January
8
The Health Benefits of the Net Zero Economy
Presenter(s)
Sir Andy Haines, Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
January
9
A New vision: Reimagining the Climate for Climate Solutions
Presenter(s)
Crystal Chissell, Senior Director - Partnerships at Project Drawdown
Asad Rehman, Executive Director, War on Want
David Anderson Hooker, Associate Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Dana Kawaoka-Chen, Co-Director, Justice Funders
Barbara J. Love, Consultant, Coach, Author, lecturer, Climate Change Activist, Personal & Organizational Transformation Specialist
Richard Mabion, Community Organizer, Climate Activist
January
9
Building a Global and Intersectional Environmental Narrative
Presenter(s)
Marina Melanidis, Founder and Partnerships Director, Youth4Nature
Matt Scott, Manager - Storytelling and Engagement, Project Drawdown
Isaias Hernandez, Environmental Educator and Creator, QueerBrownVegan
Clover Hogan, Founder and Executive Director, Force of Nature
Kate Weiner, Creative Director, Loam
Kynan Tegar, Filmmaker, If Not Us Than Who, Dayak Iban tribe from Sungai Utik, West Kalimantan
David Hernández Palmar, Filmmaker and Film Programmer, If Not Us Than Who
Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti, Founder, Green Generation Initiative
January
9
Climate Opportunities: Finding Your Path Within the Climate Movement
Presenter(s)
Elizabeth Bagley, Director - Drawdown Learn at Project Drawdown
Evan Hynes, Founder, Climate Base
Bill Wiehl, Founder and Executive Director for Climate Voice
Vivian Saxon, Communications Director and Founder, Global Warming Mitigation Project
Jackie Francis, Founder, Global Warming Mitigation Project
Fernanda Matsuoka, Chief Operating Officer, Youth Climate Leaders
Matt Scott, Manager - Storytelling and Engagement at Project Drawdown
January
9
Ending Climate Silence: mainstreaming climate solutions in the media
Presenter(s)
Genevieve Guenther, Founder and Director, End Climate Silence
Katharine Hayhoe, Political Science Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law, co-director of the Climate Center at Texas Tech University
Jeff Berardelli, Meteorologist and Climate Contributor to CBS News, New York City
Aruna Chandrasekhar, Independent Journalist and writer from India
Mark Hertsgaard, Executive Director, Covering Climate Now
January
9
Inspiring Private-sector Action
Presenter(s)
Jamie Alexander, Director of Drawdown Labs at Project Drawdown
Anna Escuer, Lead for Carbon & Water. Global Sustainability Team, Google
Scott Tew, Vice President, Sustainability & Managing Director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, Trane Technologies
Elouise Mayall, Community Working Group; UKYCC (UK Youth Climate Coalition)
January
9
Joining the Drawdown Global Collaborative
Presenter(s)
Chad Frischmann, Senior Director of Research & Technology, Project Drawdown
Roy Straver, Drawdown Europe Research Association and Co-Director of the Climate Cleanup Foundation
Michelle Wyman, Executive Director of NCSE Speaking about the NCSE Drawdown USA Research Association
Marilyn Brown, Interim Chair, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology speaking on behalf of Drawdown Georgia
Shloka Nath, Head of Sustainability, Tata Trusts, Head of Policy & Advocacy, Tata Trusts, Executive Director, India Climate Collaborative
Drawdown Scholars - Christopher Contos, Gabbie Batzko, James Sanders, Dharma Santos-Santiago, and Kat (Kristen) Taylor
Drawdown Fellows - Ariani Wartenberg, Melanie Valencia, Abdulmutalib Yussuff, Karthik Mukkavilli, Jimena Alvarez, Ruth Metzel, Robin Pelc, Luiz Silveira
January
9
Launching the Drawdown Global Solutions Platform
Presenter(s)
Alden Bevington, Product Manager, Drawdown Solutions Platform
Chad Frischmann, Senior Director of Research and Technology, Project Drawdown
Roy Straver, Director, Drawdown Europe Research Association and Co-Director of the Climate Cleanup Foundation
Co-Lab Cooperation Representative (TBD)
January
9
Learning How the World Can Reach Drawdown: The Evolving Work of Drawdown Learn
Presenter(s)
Elizabeth Bagley, Director - Drawdown Learn at Project Drawdown
Matt Scott, Manager - Storytelling and Engagement at Project Drawdown
Deidra Parrish Williams, Leader, Global Corporate Social Responsibility, Trane Technologies
Sean Kinghorn, Global Sustainability Leader, Intuit
Nico Valencia, Senior Manager, Strategic Education Partnerships, Intuit
Karla Readshaw, Strategic Partner Manager, Education, Intuit
Liz Zavodsky, Executive Director, Drawdown Ecochallenge
Kirsten Love, Director of Market Development, Tradewater