Featured Speakers, Panelists and Honored Guests included:

Wangari Maathai — Founder, Green Belt Movement
Hon. John Kerry — Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Richard Lugar — Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arne Sorenson — CFO, Marriot International, Inc.
David Barron — President, International Conservation Caucus Foundation
Frances Beinecke — President, Natural Resources Defense Council
Helene Gayle — President and CEO, Care USA
James Warren Evans — Director, Environment Department, World Bank
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend — Environmentalist, Former Lt. Governor, Maryland
Kevin Conrad — Director, Coalition for Rainforest Nations
Kevin Knobloch — President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Mark Tercek — President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Michael Morris — Chairman, president and CEO, American Electric Power
Peter Seligmann — Chairman, Conservation International
Raymond Offenheiser — President, Oxfam America
Robert Corell — Director of the Global Change Program, The Heinz Center
Stuart Eizenstat — Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Teresa Heinz — Chair, The Heinz Endowments

Event Organizing Group:

• Jeff Horowitz — Founding Partner, Avoided Deforestation Partners
• Charlotte Streck — Director, Climate Focus B.V.
• Rick Saines — Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
• Toby Janson-Smith — Senior Director, Conservation International
• Robert O’Sullivan — Executive Director, Climate Focus North America
• Ann Tartre — Executive Director, Avoided Deforestation Partners
• Aimee Christensen — Founder and CEO, Christensen Global Strategies, LLC
• Andrew Jones — Director, Climate Group, Care USA
• Eric Haxthausen — Climate Change Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
• Holly Fechner — Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
• Jake Schmidt — International Climate Change Policy Director Natural Resources Defense Council
• Kyle Danish — Partner, Van Ness Feldman, P.C.
• Mari Snyder — Communications Director, Marriott International, Inc.
• Marty McBroom — Director Federal Environmental Affairs, American Electric Power
• Nigel Purvis — President, Climate Advisers
• Peter Frumhoff — Chief Scientist, Climate Campaign, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Ryan Cunningham — Director, The Glover Park Group
• Susan Lylis — Executive Director, International Conservation Caucus Foundation
• Steve Kline — Vice President Corporate Environmental and Federal Affairs, PG&E Corporation
• Steve Schwartzman — Director for Tropical Forest Policy Environmental Defense Fund
• Wanjira Maathai — Executive Director, Green Belt Movement

Participants (Not including Congressional Staff):

• Adam Chapman — Project Manager, Avoided Deforestation Partners
• Adotei Akwei — Director, Government Affairs, Care USA
• Albert Cho — Manager, McKinsey & Company
• Amy Gambrill — Carr Foundation
• Annie Petsonk — International Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund
• Anna Maria Schneider — Director, Industry and Government Relations, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc
• Barbara Bramble — Senior Program Advisor, International Affairs, National Wildlife Federation
• Bart Simmons — Chief Operating Officer, Ecosystem Restoration Assoc. Inc.
• Bill Goodfellow — Executive Director, Center for International Policy
• Bob Musil — Former CEO, Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Bobbie Hertel — Environmentalist
• Carter Bales — Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
• Cassie Pataky — Director, U.S., Green Belt Movement
• Charles Barber — Environmental Advisor, Office of Environment and Science Policy, USAID
• Charles Hall — Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
• Charles McNeill — Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Energy Group, UNDP
• Chris Tuite — Director of Forest Carbon Markets, Conservation International
• Christian Stenberg — First Secretary, Embassy of Denmark
• Christina DeConcini — Director of Legislative Affairs, World Resources Institute
• Consuelo Espinosa — Senior Forest and Climate Change Officer, IUCN
• Cynthia Awuor — Regional Climate Change Advisor, East Africa, CARE International
• Cynthia Ryan — Executive Director, Schooner Foundations
• Dan Zarin — Senior Advisor, Tropical Forest Carbon Strategy, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• David Waskow — Climate Change Program Director, Oxfam US
• Dharsono Hartono — Project Director, PT. Rimba Makmur Utama
• Diane Fitzgerald — (forestry projects), American Electric Power
• Donna Lee — Office of Global Change, US Department Of State
• Duncan Marsh — Director of International Climate Policy The Nature Conservancy
• Duncan Stewart — Environment and Energy, Embassy of Canada
• Eric Young — Climate and energy press secretary, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Eric Palola — Senior Director, Forests for Wildlife, National Wildlife Federation
• Erika Harms — Director, Sustainable Development Program, UN Foundation
• Erika Nortemann — Photographer, The Nature Conservancy
• Eron Bloomgarden — President, Environmental Markets Group, Equator Environmental LLC
• Federica Bietta — Deputy Director, Coalition for Rainforest Nations
• Griel Thoumi — Forestry Director, MGM International Group, LLC
• Gerrity Lansing — President, Equator Environmental
• Gerry Hertel — Forest Ecologist, Westchester University
• Gia Schneider — Partner, Eko Asset Management Partners
• Glenn Prickett — Senior Vice-President, Conservation International
• Gonzalo Castro — Managing Director, Americas, Sustainle Forestry Management
• Gus Silva-Chavez — International Climate Change Policy Analyst Environmental Defense Fund
• Henry Stern — Volunteer, Avoided Deforestation Partners
• Hiranya Fernando — Senior Associate, Capital Markets Research, World Resources Institute
• James Rubin — Senior Attorney, Hunton & Williams LLP
• James Baker — Director, Global Carbon Measurement Program, Clinton Climate Initiative
• Jan Hartke — Director, Clinton Climate Initiative
• Janet Peace — VP Markets and Business Strategy, Pew Center
• Jason Patlis — Vice President and Managing Director, World Wildlife Fund
• Jeff Waldon — Executive Director, Tropical Forest Foundation
• Jennifer Denney — Strategic Communications, The Nature Conservancy
• Jennifer Layke — Deputy Director, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute
• Joanna Durbin — Director, CCBA
• JoDee Winteroff — Care USA
• John Lewis — Terra Global Capital
• John Van D. Lewis — Managing Director, Terra Global Capital
• Joshua Meltzer — First Secretary (Trade Policy), Embassy of Australia
• Kanika Riley — Care USA
• Karen Neale — Manager, Government Relations, International Paper Company
• Karen Foerstel — Senior Media and Marketing Manager, The Nature Conservancy
• Katherine Hamilton — Manager, Ecosystem Marketplace
• Keith Belton — Director of Government Affairs, Environment and Energy, Dow Chemical
• Kevin Hogan — Advisor, President of Guyana, office of the president of Guyana
• Kristen Pattersen — Associate Director, Africa Program, The Nature Conservancy
• Laura Bowling — Senior Vice President Communications, Conservation International
• Lee Stein — Chairman, Prize Capital
• Leslie Durschinger — Managing Director, Terra Global Capital
• Lisa Merton — Filmmaker, Marboro Productions
• Malachy Hargadon — Environment Counselor, Delegation of the European Commission
• Manuel Oliva — Director, U.S. Climate Policy, Conservation International
• Mario-Ingo Soos — energy and environmental, German Embassy
• Marisa Martin — Associate Baker & McKenzie LLP
• Matt Ogonowski — Senior Policy Analyst, Center For Clean Air Policy
• Max Williamson — Principal, Beveridge & Diamond
• Melissa McHenry — Corporate Communications, American Electric Power
• Melissa Lavinson — PG&E
• Michael Jenkins — President and CEO, Forest Trends
• Mya Walters — Carbon Neutral Project, Volkswagen Group of American, Inc
• Nick Bridge — Counsellor for Global Issues, British Embassy
• Pat Hemlepp — Corporate Communications, American Electric Power
• Patrick Hughes — Climate and Energy, UN Foundation
• Patrick Smith — USAID
• Per Frederik Ilsaas Pharo — Deputy Director, Ministry of Environment, Norway
• Peter Jenkins — Director of International Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife
• Peter Molinaro — Vice President, Federal and State Government Affairs The Dow Chemical Company
• Peter Schwach — Senior Partner, Thurlestone Capital LLP
• Radha Kuppalli — Director, New Forests, Inc.
• Ralph Schmidt — Forester
• Ralph Ashton — Convenor and Chair, Terrestrial Carbon Group
• Ray Kopp — Director, Climate and Technology Policy Program, Resources for the Future
• Rhett Butler — Founder and Editor, Mongay
• Robert Falls — President and CEO, Ecosystem Restoration Assoc.
• Sally Collins — Director of Ecosystem Services and Markets, Forest Service
• Sarah Hines — Presidential Management Fellow, US Department Of Agriculture
• Sigrid Bay — First Secretary, Royal Norwegian Embassy
• Stephen Mills — Director, International Programs, Sierra Club
• Steve Porter — Director, Climate Change, Center for International Environmental Law
• Steve McBee — President And CEO, McBee Strategic Consulting
• Ted Dreyfus — Managing Director, Clinton Climate Initiative
• Warwick Manfrinato — Director, Plant