Hundreds of Grass-Roots Activists and Scientific Leaders Meet in Nashville for Al Gore's North American Summit
Nashville, Tennessee, -- The Climate Project (TCP), an all-embracing non-profit founded by above Vice President Al Gore with a mission to access accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis at a grassroots akin worldwide, is aperture its North American Summit in Nashville today.
During the three day event, Gore will abode added than 500 attendees as able-bodied as conduct a three hour training workshop. Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will aswell be present. Award-winning scientist, environmentalist and announcer Dr. David Suzuki will accompany Gore and Pachauri, establishing the aboriginal time in history that three of the a lot of accustomed names in altitude change accept anytime appeared together.
The Summit marks the alpha of TCP's "Phase Two," signaling the alteration from its aboriginal mission of apprenticeship and accretion accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis to its broadcast cold of "advocacy and activism." Now, TCP volunteers, while continuing their apprenticeship role, will aswell seek to actuate humans to animate adopted admiral and association leaders to actively abode altitude change issues.
To advice advance this move, Steve Hildebrand, Democratic political architect and above agent civic attack administrator for Barack Obama, will allege to attendees as able-bodied as Steve Bouchard, adept political attack architect and Repower America Campaign Manager, about the civic attack to achieve adventurous behavior to advance altitude change. Both are now alive with Maggie Fox, CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection, who is aswell acclamation the conference.
The about-face from accessible apprenticeship to activism is aggressive in allotment by the accessible Copenhagen Treaty negotiations, a acquisition in December 2009 of hundreds of assembly from about the apple to altercate the backup of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The Kyoto Protocol set banned on greenhouse gas emissions for all accommodating countries. The accord absolute emissions trading options to action the potentially adverse bread-and-butter accoutrement of abrupt restrictions. The cold of the Copenhagen affair is to authorize options for furthering the Kyoto accord goals. TCP's role will be to advocate for key leaders in the US and throughout the apple to crop able positions during the Copenhagen meeting.
In addition, abundant ecology scientists will advance console discussions on altitude issues. Dr. George Woodwell, chief scientist at Woods Hole Research Center, and Dr. Eric Steig, geochemist and University of Washington professor, will allege on Global Warming Projections: The Latest Climate Science. A additional panel, advance by Dr. Howard Frumkin of the Center for Disease Control and Dr. Paul Epstein from Harvard Medical Center, will abode Emerging Health Threats of Climate Change.
Several added altitude change workshops will aswell be held.
The afterward are some of the experts and leaders that will attend:
--Honorable Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and above Vice President, Founder of The Climate Project, Founder and Chairman of The Alliance for Climate Protection
--Mrs. Tipper Gore, author, photographer, above Second Lady of the United States
--Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Price with Gore
--David Suzuki, scientist, broadcaster, ecology activist
--Steve Hildebrand, Democratic political strategist, Deputy National Campaign Director for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
--Steve Bouchard, adept political architect and Repower America Campaign Manager
--George Woodwell, Ph.D., ecologist, chief scientist at Woods Hole Research Center
--Eric Steig, Ph.D., geochemist, assistant at University of Washington
--Dr. Howard Frumkin, CDC, Director of the National Center for Environmental Health
--Dr. Paul Epstein, Harvard Medical School Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment
--Jenny Clad, Executive Director of The Climate Project
--Larry Schweiger, President, National Wildlife Federation
--Maggie Fox, CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection
--Don Henry, Executive Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation
--Kaki King, guitarist, singer-songwriter
--Roz Savage, ocean rower, ecology activist
About The Climate Project
The Climate Project (TCP) is an all-embracing non-profit founded by Nobel Laureate and above Vice President Al Gore with a mission to access accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis at a grassroots akin worldwide. TCP consists of a able agents and added than 2,600 committed volunteers throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, and the UK, all alone accomplished by Al Gore to brainwash the accessible about altitude change. In 2009, TCP broadcast its mission with a new charge to advancement and activism to action the altitude crisis. TCP presenters accept accomplished a accumulated admirers of added than 5 actor humans common and affairs are underway to advance accessory offices in Israel, China, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and Latin America. Our achievement is that by adopting the acquaintance of our adolescent citizens about this crisis and allegorical them about abeyant solutions, all of us, together, can bottle the altitude antithesis on which altruism and our planet depend.
For added advice on The Climate Project, amuse appointment http://www.theclimateproject.org or alarm (615) 327-7577.
Media Contacts:
Carrie Criado
Communications Director
The Climate Project
carrie.criado @ theclimateproject.org
832-576-6207
Kalee Kreider
Office of Honorable Al and Mrs. Tipper Gore
press @ carthagegroup.com,
(615) 332-5004
Julia Payne
Communications Director
The Alliance for Climate Projection
julia.payne @ climateprotect.org, (202)628-1999
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