ecoAmerica has confirmed five new national leaders as guest speakers for the American Climate Leadership Summit, its marquee event. The summit, to be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., is the nation’s largest gathering to broaden and activate climate leadership and galvanize support for solutions. This year’s theme, Taking Up the Mantle, expects to draw over 350 leaders from the health, faith, and local communities sectors, and includes breakout sessions for each sector as well.
Hon. John Dickert
President and CEO
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
Ira Ehrenpreis (Keynote speaker)
Board Member, Tesla Motors
DBL General Partner
Technology Partners
Prof. John Fernandez
Director
Environmental Solutions Initiative, MIT
Sara Hill
Secretary of Natural Resources
Cherokee Nation
Matt Zone
President and Councilmember
National League of Cities
A Taste of What’s to Come
Each year’s gathering builds on the ideas and work of previous ones, while adding timely new perspectives. Watch the video below for highlights of the 2016 summit, held at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. The event convened 200+ diverse, CEO-level leaders from the worlds of business, health, faith, higher education, communities, government, culture, philanthropy, and climate science under the theme Climate Solutions.
These presentations, and the conversations that followed, culminated in this Recommendations Report. It summarizes the sessions, keynote speakers, strategy meetings, and key opportunities each sector identified for expanding, accelerating, and increasing their impact as climate leaders.
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Session II: Leading the WayTop climate NGO leaders will reveal their strategies for moving America forward on climate solutions amidst an adverse federal administration.
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Session III: Justice & InclusionNational leaders will talk about accelerating climate justice, inclusion, just transition, and intergenerational equity for climate.Session IV: New Frontiers of Climate ActionThe climate movement gets relevant with new perspectives and tactics from a new generation of leaders.
- Collaborative breakout sessions on gaining public support for climate solutions, justice and inclusion, and new frontiers of climate action.
The Summit is by invitation only. To request an invitation, please email Ashley Lane at summit@ecoamerica.org. Registration is now open!
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