About the
Conference
Solutions for People and Planet
Drawdown’s System of Solutions Helps Achieve the SDGs
Panel Session
Presenters
Chad Frischmann, Senior Director of Research and Technology, Project Drawdown
Kevin Bayuk, Senior Fellow - Financial Modeling at Project Drawdown
João Pedro Gouveia, Senior Researcher at Project Drawdown and CENSE, NOVA, University of Lisbon; and Board Member, DERA
Mamta Mehra, Senior Fellow - Land Use and Research Program Officer at Project Drawdown
Ryan Allard, Skilled, Entrepreneurial Researcher and Speaker on Climate Solutions
Miranda Gorman, Senior Fellow - Industry at Project Drawdown
Energy Solutions: Electricity, Buildings, and Transportation, Implementing the Decarbonization Transition
Panel Session
Presenters
Dan Kammen, Professor and Director for the Center for Environmental Policy and the department of Nuclear Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Tom Richard, Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Director of Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment Bioenergy and Bioresource Engineering
João Pedro Gouveia, Senior Researcher at Project Drawdown and CENSE, NOVA, University of Lisbon; and Board Member, DERA
Shalanda Baker, Professor of Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University and Co-Founder and Co-Director, Initiative for Energy Justice
From Production to Consumption- Solutions for a Circular Economy
Panel Session
Presenters
Miranda Gorman, Senior Fellow - Industry at Project Drawdown
Senorpe Asem-Hiablie, Assistant Research Professor, Penn State
Durwood Zelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
Yoni Shiran, Industrial Systems and Business Model Manager, SYSTEMIQ
Silpa Kaza, Urban Development Specialist, World Bank
Maxime Begard, Director of the Paris Office for the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
Nature-based solutions for People and Planet
Panel Session
Presenters
Dennis Garrity, Chair of the Board of the Global EverGreening Alliance, Chair, Landcare International, and Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification
Thomas Crowther, Scientific Advisor, UN Trillion Tree Campaign, Professor of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zürich
Mamta Mehra, Senior Fellow - Land Use & Research Program Officer at Project Drawdown
Cheikh Mbow, Director, Future Africa (University of Pretoria)
Mark E. Ritchie, Professor of Biology, Syracuse University
Ocean-based solutions for People and Planet
Panel Session
Presenters
Emilia Jankowska, Senior 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)
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
Robin Pelc, Research Fellow - Oceans at Project Drawdown
Susan Gardner, Division Director, UNEP Ecosystems Division
Bren Smith, Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder, Greenwave