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Goodall and Branson Co-Host AD Partners’ High Level Rio+20 Event

ADP brokers alliance between the U.S. Government and the Consumer Goods Forum, an organization representing 400 leading CEOs with $3.1 trillion in commodities – to be sustainably produced and deforestation-free by 2020.

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Speakers List for the AD Partners Rio+20 Event
in order of appearance

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales - Keynote Video Message
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE – UN Messenger of Peace
The Hon. Mary Robinson –  Former President of Ireland
The Hon. Lisa Jackson – Administrator, U.S. EPA
Julia Marton-LeFèvre - Director General, IUCN
Ambassador Donald Steinberg – Deputy Administrator, USAID
Muhtar Kent – Coca Cola CEO (Video Address)
Paul Polman – CEO, Unilever and Co-Chair, Consumer Goods Forum
The Hon. Bård Vegar Solhjell – Minister of the Environment, Norway
Jonathan Pershing - Deputy Special Envoy-Climate Change, U.S. State Dept.
Dr. Zhang Songdan – Deputy Dir. Gen., State Forestry Admin., China
Olav Kjørven – Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP
Jason Clay – Senior Vice President, World Wildlife Fund-US
Ashok Khosla – President, IUCN
Bianca Jagger – Plant a Pledge Campaign Ambassador
Tim Rollinson, CBE – Director General, Forestry Commission, Great Britain
The Hon. Stanislas Kamanzi – Minister of Natural Resources, Rwanda
Andrea Debbané – Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Airbus, S.A.
Maurice Strong- Former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations
Edward Norton – Actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity
Sir Richard Branson – Founder, Virgin Group, and Event Co-Chair

ADP Hosts High Level Forest-Climate Event at United Nations COP17 Conference

ADP brings together important voices to advance public-private partnerships for protecting forests and inspiring green growth.

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U.S. President delivers exclusive address at ADP’s UN forest-climate gathering

 

  • Secretary Clinton

  • Pres. Barack Obama

  • Frmr. Pres. Bill Clinton

  • Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE

  • UN S-G Ban Ki-moon

  • Prof. Wangari Maathai

Speakers List for the AD Partners COP17 Event
in order of appearance

The Hon. Ban Ki-moon – UN Secretary-General (keynote message)
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE – UN Messenger of Peace
The Hon. William J. Clinton – Frmr. President of the U.S. (video message)
Achim Steiner – UNEP Executive Director, UN Under-Secretary-General
José Endundo Bononge – DRC, Minister of Environment
Tina Joemat-Pettersson – South Africa, Min. of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries
Kuntoro Mangkusubroto – Indonesia, Head of the President’s Unit on REDD
Jonathan Pershing – U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change
Norbert Röttgen – Germany, Minister for Environment
Eric Solheim – Norway, Minister of the Environment
Kjetil Lund – Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance
Andrew Steer – World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change
Jason Clay – World Wildlife Fund-US, Senior VP
Sean de Cleene – Yara International, VP Global Business Initiatives
Larry Schweiger – National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO
Peter Seligmann – Conservation International, CEO and Chairman
Puvan Selvanathan – Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP
The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton – U.S. Secretary of State, video message
Wanjira Maathai – International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement
Helen Clark – Administrator, UNDP,  frmr. New Zealand Prime Minister
Mary Robinson – President of Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice
The Hon. Toga Gayewea McIntosh – Liberia, Minister of Foreign Affairs (on behalf of 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf)
The Hon. Barack Obama – U.S. President (video message)