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Climate Change Adaptation and Prospects
for Waxman-Markey
June 11, 2009: 10 am - 11:30 am (EDT)
~Online event. Registration required, and free of charge.~
This online event is the next in a series hosted by the Conservation Finance Forum (with assistance from the Government Innovators Network), highlighting several topics of keen interest to the U.S. and international conservation communities. There will be ample time for audience Q&A.
The panel includes John Kostyack of the National Wildlife Federation, and Jad Daley of the Trust for Public Land. Kostyack and Daley are leaders in the effort to include adaptation measures into the pending Waxman-Markey legislation to address climate change. These adaptation measures would have a significant impact on land and biodiversity conservation efforts in the 21st century.
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This discussion will be moderated by Jim Levitt, Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University.
Jad Daley currently serves as the Director of the Trust for Public Land’s Climate Conservation Program. In this capacity he serves as the Co-Chair of the Forest-Climate Working Group and has a particular focus on TPL’s Climate Adaptation Initiative, which supports conservation and restoration of large climate-vulnerable landscapes across the nation. Prior to his role at TPL, Jad was Campaign Director for the Northern Forest Alliance, a Vermont-based coalition of fifty conservation organizations who work to conserve the 26 million-acre Northern Forest that stretches from the Adirondack Mountains of New York to the Maine Woods. While with the Alliance, he simultaneously led the 22-state Eastern Forest Partnership, a joint federal advocacy effort among groups from Mississippi to Maine. In these roles, Daley authored two pieces of original federal legislation enacted as part of the 2008 Farm Bill.
John Kostyack is Executive Director of Wildlife Conservation and Global Warming for the National Wildlife Federation, where he leads NWF’s effort to safeguard wildlife and ecosystems from the impacts of climate change. Among his responsibilities are the national campaign to incorporate ecosystem safeguards in federal climate change legislation and NWF’s advocacy on endangered species, invasive species and state wildlife action plans. John frequently writes and lectures on meeting the challenges of conserving U.S. wildlife and ecosystems. He is also a longtime leader in ESA policy and litigation. He helped to win the endangered species conservation tax incentive for private landowners recently passed by Congress and has won a series of important court rulings through his legal advocacy.
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