AD Partners hosts
forest-climate side event
COP15 - Copenhagen
December 16, 2009
Top Row: Jens Stoltenberg - Prime Minister of Norway; Tom Friedman - Author, Journalist, The New York Times; John Kerry, U.S. Senator, Co- author, Senate climate change legislation; Hon.Tom Vilsack - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; Amb. Stuart Eizenstat - Former U.S. Negotiator Kyoto Protocol
Second Row: Frances Beinecke - President, National Resources Defense Council; Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder - The Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace; Wangari Maathai - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Founder,The Green Belt Movement; Sir Richard Branson - Founder,The Virgin Group; Jim Rogers - Chairman, President and CEO, Duke Energy
Third Row: Robert Zoellick - President,The World Bank Group; Helen Clark - Director, UN Development Programme, former Prime Minister, New Zealand; Hon. Eduardo Braga, - Governor, Amazonas, Brazil; HE Bharrat Jagdeo - President of Guyana
Fourth Row: Fred Krupp - President, Environmental Defense Fund; Peter Seligmann - Chairman and CEO, Conservation International; Henry Waxman - U.S. Congressman, Chairman, Energy and Commerce Committee; Mark Tercek - President and CEO,The Nature Conservancy; Carter Roberts - President,World Wildlife Fund, U.S.
Fifth Row: Kevin Knobloch - President,Union of Concerned Scientists; Dennis Welch - Executive Vice President, American Electric Power; Julia Marton-Lefèvre - Director General, IUCN; Brian McClendon - Vice President, Google, Inc., and Co-Founder, Google Earth; Jeff Horowitz - Founder, Avoided Deforestation Partners.
AD Partners is pleased to host a high-level side event for the UNFCCC COP15 on December 16th, 2009. Our side event is entitled: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation: Opportunities for U.S. Initiatives in Support of a Global Framework. We are pleased and honored to have over 20 distinguished speakers for our 3 hour afternoon session....see more
TROPICAL FOREST AND CLIMATE UNITY AGREEMENT
AD Partners brokers landmark agreement
AD Partners is pleased to have facilitated a milestone forest-climate policy agreement among prominent U.S. environmental, conservation and development groups in addition to power sector companies and other corporate interests. The goal of this agreement is to advance U.S. legislation....see more initiatives
"We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."-Al Gore (Nobel Acceptance, October, 2007)
MISSION STATEMENT
Avoided Deforestation Partners advances the adoption of U.S. and international climate policies that include effective, transparent, and equitable market and non-market incentives to reduce tropical deforestation. Avoided Deforestation Partners convenes public and private sector participants to create awareness among key decision makers, to advance research, and to promote the development of policy solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation and degradation.
Avoided Deforestation Partners is a project of the Center for International Policy, Washington DC
NEWS AND EVENTS
Analysis Shows Protecting Tropical Forests Will Boost Revenue for Brazil by US$146-$306 billion
A report released today by AD Partners finds that Brazilian agriculture is well-positioned to benefit from a gradual shift away from deforestation-based production. With relatively constant temperatures and tens of millions of hectares of degraded land that can easily be put into production as demand increases, non-deforestation agriculture in Brazil will gain significant market share from forest protection measures.
Read the report in English
Em Português: Mais florestas, fazendas melhores
"Farms Here, Forests There: Tropical Deforestation and U.S. Competitiveness in Agriculture and Timber"
On May 26, ADP hosted a Press conference to launch a report on the destruction of the world’s tropical forests by overseas timber, agriculture, and cattle operations. Tropical deforestation has led to a dramatic expansion in production of commodities that compete directly with U.S. products.... see more
AD Partners convenes briefing on Capitol Hill in support of the U.S. $1 billion REDD budget request
On May 19, AD Partners co-hosted event with Dr. Jane Goodall and distinguished appropriations legislators, Senators Brownback, Leahy and Representative Lowey and other honored guests in support of REDD funding and legislation.... view press release, photos and meeting agenda
U.S. Agriculture Sec. Vilsack announces $1 billion forest fund at AD Partners COP15 event
On December 16, AD Partners hosted a high-level forest-climate side event in Copenhagen, with a broad range of special guests. For many, this REDD event was the highlight of the COP.... view press release, photos, agenda, and participation list
Timber, Agriculture and Rainforests Factsheet
Illegal overseas agriculture and timber operations in tropical countries are depressing commodity prices and undercutting U.S. competitiveness. We can level the playing field and save American farms and jobs by protecting tropical forests for future generations.... view factsheet
Forest and biodiversity
funding announcement
AD Partners founder Jeff Horowitz presented a letter from Senator Patrick Leahy to Charles, Prince of Wales, regarding U.S. funding for tropical forest protection.... see more
Meeting with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Members of the Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition met with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar in October to discuss climate change and tropical forest protection.... see more
AD Partners rolls out Call for U.S. Leadership
initiative at Congressional briefing on
Capitol Hill
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On February 9th, AD Partners hosted a major Capitol Hill briefing with a unique line up of advocates, including Senators Kerry and Lugar, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, and a diverse list of NGO Presidents, corporate leaders and other honored guests.... see more
Nobel Peace Laureates Al Gore and Wangari Maathai lead discussion on Climate, Security and Development Policy
AD Partners was pleased and honored to host Nobel peace laureates Al Gore and Wangari Maathai who lead a landmark discussion on the need to protect tropical forests as a central element in the fight to stop climate change and as a key to international peace, stability and development. Moderated by Dan Rather, their discussion focused on the crucial role to be played by U.S. leaders in fighting deforestation... see more
Prof. Wangari Maathai supports AD Partners initiative
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai and a group of renowned scientists and environmental, political and business leaders spoke at the AD Partners May 5th, 2008 lunch event on the Importance of Avoided Deforestation in Washington, DC. Professor Maathai called for the urgent need for the U.S. Congress to adopt policies that protect rainforests and lives...see more
Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias sends AD Partners message for US and the developed countries
In lieu of his personal appearance at the AD Partners September 22nd NY event, President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Oscar Arias provides AD Partners with a statement for the audience…. see more
Report: Forest conservation can be as reliable as other ways of reducing pollution
A combination of dramatic technological advances, experience, and application of a little common sense has markedly increased scientists' confidence in their ability to monitor forest conservation projects for their climate impact.... go to article
AD Partners convenes
Pre-Copenhagen Panel
On October 6, AD Partners hosted a lunch briefing with the German Marshall Fund and the Royal Norwegian Embassy for Embassy staff from European and rainforest nations. The event focused on options to create incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation currently under debate in the U.S. Congress.... see more
Center for American Progress Publishes AD Partners analysis of Waxman-Markey Legislation
In a recently published briefing for the Center for American Progress, Glenn Hurowitz, AD Partners’ Washington Director, explains the climate-forest provisions of the Climate and Energy bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.... see more
How Waxman-Markey tackles climate change by saving forests
Glenn Hurowitz | One of the little-known ingredients of the deal that allowed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454, to pass the Energy and Commerce committee was a breakthrough on protections for the world's vanishing tropical forests.... go to article
New York Times advocates saving climate, forests through carbon offsets
On May 29, The New York Times published an editorial calling for protecting international rainforests through passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454).... see more
REDD methodology modules are now online and open for public comments via the TÜV SÜD website
The complete set of REDD Methodology Modules has been submitted to TÜV SÜD for validation against the Voluntary Carbon Standard. TÜV SÜD is conducting a 30 day public commenting period as part of their review of the modules.... see more
Presentation by AD Partners at UN, COP 14, Poznan, Poland
AD Partners launches effort to develop VCS Baseline and Monitoring Modules for Projects that Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).... see more