Indigenous Peoples, University of Pennsylvania, TIME100 Next, Climate Justice

Vice President for Climate Action, @Salesforce. Formerly with IUCN, European Commission, Convention on Biodiversity. Designed #GenerationRestoration for @UNEP & @FAO. The time for change is now!

Thomas Ward Crowther is a professor of ecology at ETH Zürich and co-chair of the advisory board for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. At ETH Zürich, he started Crowther Lab, an interdisciplinary group of scientists exploring the role of biodiversity in regulating the Earth's climate. Crowther is the founder of Restor, an online platform that provides connectivity, and transparency to thousands of conservation and restoration projects around the world. He also founded SEED, a biodiversity monitoring tool to help measure the health of nature across the globe. He was selected in the final cohort for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize, and was selected by World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader for his work to promote nature.

Jad Daley has been the president and chief executive officer of American Forests, the nation’s first and oldest forest conservation organization, since 2018. He leads the organization forward on climate change, social equity and other issues related to forests. He moved into that role after a year of serving as the organization’s vice president of conservation programs. He also is co-chair of the Forest-Climate Working Group, which he helped launch in 2007, and a member of the Forest Proud Board of Directors. Daley has a long record of leadership in the forest community. From 2008 to 2017, he was at The Trust for Public Land, where he led the Climate Conservation Program and eventually served as vice president for program development. He has played a lead role in authoring multiple pieces of federal legislation for forests, including the enabling language for the USDA Forest Service’s Community Forest Program and the Community Wood Energy Program, both enacted as part of the 2008 Farm Bill. He is a widely published writer on conservation topics and has an active presence on Medium.

Ann Dumaliang is an Ashoka Fellow, a Global Shaper, National Geographic Explorer, Vanity Fair Changing Your Mind Awardee and Esquire Philippines' Man at His Best Warrior of the Year who co-founded the Masungi Georeserve - an award-winning project using the triple approach of conservation & research, education and sustainable development through geotourism as a bottoms-up approach to conserving a 60 million year old pinnacle karst formation and aiding rural growth.

Her project now involves the ambitious aim to manage & restore a 2,700 hectare area at no cost to government. These areas constitute portions of a critically deteriorated watershed important to 20 million Filipinos - making it important as a disaster-risk resilience approach and as a nature-based solution to the climate crisis in some of the most at risk countries and communities in the world.

Awards and accolades for the project include:
(1) Special commendations at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD) 14th Conference of Parties in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt in October 2018 for innovations in resourcing and financing for conservation
(2) Global finalist for Destination Stewardship Award at the World Travel and Tourism Council’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards in Seville, Spain in 2019 out of about 150 nominations
(3) Being considered as one of the top three most sustainable and innovative tourism projects in the world by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation out of 200 nominations in 2019
(4) Most recently, Masungi Georeserve has also the Global Water Changemaker Award for speaking truth to power & overcoming inertia for watershed rehabilitation
(5) The prestigious United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Action Award for creating youth-led movements for conservation
(6) The International Ranger Federation Award for demonstrated bravery at the frontlines for protecting tropical rainforests against illegal and syndicated activities

CEO-founder of Commonland an organization that is active worldwide in making system change practical through the restoration of large degraded areas using a holistic framework. From 2000-2012 he was director of IUCN Netherlands: topics managing large ecosystem grants programs and initiated an international business network of CEOs biodiversity. Between 1995 and 2000 he led the Tropical Rainforest small grants Program at IUCN Netherlands. In 2012, Ferwerda developed the 4 Returns Framework for Landscape Restoration as common language and tool to make restoration happen at scale with all stakeholders. Ferwerda is chair of the Thematic Group Business and Ecosystem Management of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, Executive Fellow Business & Ecosystems at the Rotterdam School of Management-Erasmus University. He is board member of several organisations on nature, biodiversity food and agriculture. He received awards and led the Sustainable 100 of 2016 of Dutch people with the most influence on the environment and sustainability. Ferwerda studied tropical ecology, tropical agriculture and environmental sciences in The Netherlands and Colombia.

Expert on scaling ecosystem restoration

Principal Scientist, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

1974, a degree in Electronics Engineering, Aeronautics Institute of Technology-ITA, São José dos Campos, Brazil; 1983, Ph.D. in Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1988, Visiting Scientist, University of Maryland, USA. 1991-2003, Director, Center for Weather and Climate Forecasting (CPTEC-INPE); 2008-10, Director, Center for Earth System Science (CCST-INPE); 1998-2004, Program Scientist, Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia-LBA; 2006-11, Chair, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP); 2011-14, National Secretary for R&D Policies, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil; 2015-16, president of Agency of Post-Graduate Education-CAPES. A scientific career dedicated to the Amazon region; developed pioneer research on the climate impacts of deforestation and climate change; proponent of the initiative Amazonia 4.0, an innovative proposal for a standing forest bioeconomy for the Amazon making use of modern technologies. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; World Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and the Royal Society of the UK. Author and co-author of over 250 scientific articles, books, and book chapters.

Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka 'Ōiwi) is a passionate advocate for Indigenous people’s rights, intersectional environmentalism, and climate justice that puts aloha ʻāina at the heart of solutions. She is a Co-Executive Director at Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), a 16-year global initiative that empowers women’s leadership to protect the environment, end the climate crisis, and ensure a just, thriving world.

With WEA, Kahea has facilitated legal advocacy partnerships for indigenous women-led environmental campaigns to protect lands, water, and sacred spaces. She also co-led a the development of the “Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies” report and toolkit, which provides a critical perspective from Indigenous women and young people on the health and social impacts of extractive industry within their territories, as well as community-developed tools to address environmental violence.
Kahea has a background in law, critical theory and human rights. She serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth and 1t.org—the trillion trees platform of the World Economic Forum—and is on the Board of Directors of Planet Women.

Vaishali Nigam Sinha is the Co-Founder of ReNew, India's leading clean energy company. As Chairperson Sustainability, Vaishali has been responsible for ReNew’s emergence as a global ESG trailblazer, advancing the Net-Zero agenda, and delivering outcome-driven ESG strategies with top global rankings. Vaishali is also the Founding Chair of the ReNew Foundation—the
company’s philanthropic arm—driving the ReNew India Initiative for pathbreaking work in corporate social responsibility. She is
also Co-Chair of the Finance and Infrastructure Task Force of B20, the global business forum of G20 Brazil.
Vaishali has completed the Owners and Presidents Management Program from Harvard Business School and has a Masters’ in Public Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she was an American Association of University Women (AAUW) scholar.

Graduated from the speciality of water and soil conservation, Beijing Forestry University in 1989 and received Ph.D in 2006. Over the past three decades, has been workeing in forestry department. His rofessional experiencee involves in forest management, forest and climate change, forest-related international cooperation etc. He has more than 15 years of experience in participating in UNFCCC negotiation. He takes the position of the executive director of the International Cooperation Center of National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA), China