The Rethinking Animals Summit 2019 the Unsustainable Cost of Our Treatment of Other Species

The ReThinking Animals Summit 2019 The Unsustainable cost of our treatment of other species

New york city September 14-15, 2019 2019 partners T h am n i n d u e t i k a i n l g s THINKING ANIMALS UNITED AND THE RETHINKING ANIMALS SUMMIT 2019

In 2012 when we started our Exploring Animals Minds series of public lectures, the idea that animals were capable of thinking, planning, creating and being emotional was relatively new—even among scientists. Now most people accept that many other animals are sentient, with a full range of emotional feelings, self-awareness, cognitive and behavioral capabilities that rival ours in some instances. Over a period of three and a half years we held 20 public lectures featuring renowned scientists in the ﬁelds of cognition, ethology, comparative psychology, communications, biology, evolutionary behavior, and neuroscience to enlighten people about the intelligence of animals. We have now expanded our vision to include bringing issues of caring for, protecting and conserving animals to the public’s attention, as well as an awareness of what this responsibility means for the planet. We are also working to ensure that the impacts and importance of other species is acknowledged and incorporated in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals-the 17 goals the UN created to direct its work for the next 13 years. Although we have already succeeded in incorporating language acknowledging the importance of animals into documents pertaining to the mitigation of poverty and environmental destruction that will be distributed to all 193 Member States and posted on the UN website, we are looking at new public and civic arenas and ways of inclusively reaching out to all stakeholders to get our message to ever wider audiences. We are excited by what the future holds for us as an organization and as a species, for other animals and the planet. We will increasingly need to rely on our innate ingenuity if we are to save the planet. So along with bringing your attention to the critical threats we face from our treatment of other species, our Summit focuses on solutions and exciting innovations that so often arise in response to global crises, many of which are directly related to our commod- itization of other species. New disruptive technological advances and innovative businesses based on them are already reshaping the landscape of the future economy. Be it new building materials, cultured foods, new ways to collect, analyze and visualize complex information, or individual action – all stand as beacons of positive change. Many entrepreneurs, individuals, and businesses are already defning a new future for humans and other animals.

The goal of Thinking Animals United has always been to better understand animals and inspire a unifed commitment to their protection and well-being. Our Pledge: To coexist with all sentient beings, treat them with respect, and protect them from all human generated threats to their survival and well-being. It’s a future worth fghting for. An Introduction to the International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW) Fifty years ago, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) took on one problem threatening one species in one part of the world. With the 1983 ban on whitecoat Harp seal products, more than 1 million seal pups were saved. Since then we have taken on problems threatening more species, including our own, in over 40 countries across the globe. Pioneering first-ever successes in the rescue, rehabilitation and release of animals back into the wild into safe spaces, we are now rescuing more animals and securing more habitats than at any other point in time. At IFAW, our history is one of expanding vision. As the world evolves, so do we. We follow a set of key principles that guide our work, namely that animals should be recognized as sentient beings with intrinsic value; that policy be based on sound science and the ethical treatment of animals; and that conservation decisions should be guided by both ecological and biological sustainability. And we do this because we know that individual animals matter. They are key to biodiversity in their habitats and they can mean the difference between losing or saving an entire species. By rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing animals, one by one— by protecting their habitats, and helping them flourish—we can save a species. At IFAW, we believe our work transcends all borders. This is not just a statement, but an observation of the power of ordinary people to make a difference wherever they live. As an organization, we have assembled some of the most gifted experts in the areas of biology, cybercrime, ecology, forensic science, forestry, oceanography, and zoology. Activists and negotiators. Rescue workers and consensus-builders. People who think big and act boldly. Our work takes us across diverse seascapes and landscapes across the globe. From protecting critical elephant habitats across Africa, to developing alternative fishing gear that reduces the threat of deadly marine mammal entanglements, to working with tourism companies to develop sustainable whale watching as an alternative to commercial whaling, to helping local communities and their animals in crises through our disaster response team. Our work has even taken us into the realm of cyberspace as we helped launch the first-ever Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online. The global role that IFAW plays both domestically and abroad allows us to recognize the multi-faceted dimensions of animal welfare and conservation. Thus, we work hard to implement innovative projects that reinforces ways to work both with and within the local communities themselves. One of the most important lessons we have learned is that there is a human side to animal welfare. When people take better care of themselves, they often take better care of the animals around them. This inspires our work as well as the partnerships we undertake to ensure that communities are engaged in conservation. For we know we cannot do it alone. COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING Compassion in World Farming is the leading international organisation working to end factory farming, the greatest cause of animal cruelty on the planet and a major cause of wildlife declines. The organisation is behind some of the greatest achievements for farm animals of the past decades, including EU bans on cage systems and legal recognition of animals as sentient beings, capable of pain, suffering and joy. Compassion investigates and exposes the true costs of factory farming, calling to account those with the power to change our food and farming systems. By working in partnership with inspirational supporters, progressive policy makers and visionary companies, we are mobilising a movement for far-reaching change.Over the last decade, Compassion’s pioneering engagement work with over 1,000 food companies worldwide has led to real improvements in the lives of over two billion farm animals every year. Compassion seeks to encourage and enable more people to stand with us and create a better world for animals, people and the planet. We are proud of our many victories for farm animals. Since 2012, our Better Chicken Initiative has advocated for the use of healthier, slower-growing breeds—and better living conditions that offer more space, natural light, and enrichment. Thanks to the passion and generosity of our supporters, over 60 major food businesses have committed to better chicken.

Holding companies to account for their commitments to improve animal welfare is an important aspect of our work. We work in partnership on the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare, which plays a key role in keeping farm animal welfare on the corporate agenda: the latest report featured assessments of 150 companies across 23 countries. Our EggTrack publications report on the progress companies are making towards ending the use of cages for laying hens.

The current rate of growth in the market for cheap meat and dairy is unsustainable, both in terms of animal welfare and the environment. Compassion is at the heart of a new breed of ‘animal welfare environmentalists’ regarding animal welfare as a central component in the overall battle to save the planet. We are seeking a new global agreement at UN level for an end to factory farming and a move to humane and regenerative food systems. In the meantime initiatives such as our #EatPlantsForAChange encourage a more planet and animal friendly diet.

thinking animalsunited founder/president bonnie wyper 2019 partners “ By rethinkingourrelationship tootherspecies, wecouldsaveit. planet livesordies. other pathistofuelouralienationfrom theveryprocessesoflifethatsustainplanet. As humans, wedecidewhetherthe us andtoourselves. We needtorediscoverandreintegratethevaluesofintegrity, curiosity andhumility. To continuedownany and ourfellowanimals. We seetheworldthroughsilosofself-interestandare blindtowhatwearedoingtheworldaround In somanywayswehavediminished our livesbyhavinglostsightofthetransformativepowerengagement withnature thelimitationsofourhumanness,ability tomoveusbeyond ofthatnarrative. needtobeapart the world. scenariostoaddresswhatishappeningourworld.We now desperatelyneedtocreatenew Animals, and their factorsinshapingourunderstandingof Beliefs andstoriesaboutthempassedonbythousandsofindividualsare important connectionswithotherspecies,We sharenotonly neuralandevolutionary butemotional ones. We empathizewiththem. charred forests, foulair, downedanimalsandpoisonedwaterways. thathas givenuslife. This ishowwehaverepaidtheearth meats, ivorytrinkets, takenfromaslaughteredanimal;moreconsumption, falsehopeofimmortality wasteanddiabetes; ecologies thatsustainlife. We seemunable tocomprehendthattheirfutureisourfuture. areinexorablylinked.They Plastic, Because ofwhatwehavedonetootheranimals, theirpresenceorabsenceisdestroyingtheoceans, forestsandterrestrial sicken anddieinourlifetimes. the poorestpeoplesinworld. Inthewaythatwetreatotherspecies, weareensuringaplanetthatwillbegintoirrevocably throw ourrefuseintotheriversandoceans, wethreatentosickenorsuffocatetheanimalstherein, therebystarvingsomeof are brutallytakenfromtheirhomesinthewildandeaten, wehaveturnedthemintocarriersofdisease;becausearrogantly andtheair,presence foulstheearth destroyingthenaturalbalancethathasmaintainedplanetformillennia. Becausethey Do werealizethathaveturnedthemintocommodities? As commodities, wehaveforcedthemintopositionswheretheir What arethecostsofourtreatmentotherspecies? rethink. Reset. “ 9:00 AM-9:45 keynote speakerS 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 SATURDAY,

Dr. Mary Melnyk - Environmental Security Carol Mckenna - special advisor - AND Resilience Team Leader - USAID compassion in world farminG Dr. Mary Melnyk is the Environmental Security and Resilience Team Leader for the Carol McKenna is a successful campaigner and coalition builder with over thirty years USAID’s Asia Bureau and has 30 years experience working on community development, of experience of a broad range of animal protection issues. She is Special Advisor to biodiversity conservation and the environment in Latin America and Asia. She has been the Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming leading projects and work strands in the Asia Bureau since 2001 and is currently engaged in USAID efforts to address aimed at achieving systemic change towards regenerative agriculture. Carol is Chair of water security, glacier melt and the conservation of tigers and snow leopards. She has Eating Better, an alliance of over 60 organisations working to accelerate action for less also developed and facilitated public-private sector alliances linking environmentally- and better meat and dairy for health, environment, animal welfare and social justice sustainable and socially-responsible products to markets. Past work has included a (www.eating-better.org) and also a founding member and Trustee of the Wild Animal body of research analyzing forest conflict in Asia. Her Ph.D. is in ecological management Welfare Committee, a charity which provides independent advice and evidence about from Imperial College of the University of London and quantified the economic and the welfare of free-living wild animals in the UK (www.wawcommittee.org). She recently nutritional values of forest foods to rural livelihoods in Southern Venezuela. She co-edited the book inspired by Compassion’s 2017 Extinction & Livestock conference, graduated summa cum laude, B.S.in zoology from the Univ. of Maryland, College Park. Farming, Food and Nature: Respecting Animals, People and Nature (Earthscan, 2018).

The CONSEQUENCES FOR Human Health 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM IS Our treatment of animals making us sick?

MODERATOR: JILL BARON - associate Dr. HELLEN AMUGUNI - ASSISTANT Professor - cuny stony brook PROFESSOR - TUFTS UNIVERSITY.

Jill R. Baron, MD, one of New York’s cutting-edge Integrative Dr. Hellen Amuguni is a veterinarian with doctoral training and Functional Medicine physicians, is a board certified in Infectious Diseases. She’s an Assistant Professor in Infectious Family Physician in New York City. A graduate of Princeton Disease and Global Health at the Cummings School of Vet- University, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, erinary medicine, Tufts University, and the technical advisor and certified by the Institute for Functional Medicine, the for the USAID RESPOND project Africa. She coordinates American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, and the projects across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia North American Menopause Society, she combines conven- and Democratic Republic of Congo working with 14 institu- tional primary care with holistic and mind-body therapies to tions of public health and veterinary medicine to build the optimize patients’ health. She has been a featured guest on capacity of partner countries using a One Health approach several radio and media programs, and is the author of the to investigate, respond to, and counter existing and future forthcoming book, “Don’t Mess with Stress!™” emerging infectious disease outbreaks. JEAN HALLORAN - DIRECTOR - FOOD JASON PATLIS - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - POLICY INITIATIVES - CONSUMER REPORTS MARINE CONSERVATION PROGRAM, WCS

Jean Halloran is Director of Food Policy Initiatives at Jason Patlis is a leading marine policy expert who serves Consumer Reports. She has led many projects on food as the head of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Marine safety, sustainable consumption and trade issues. She is Conservation Program, with projects in over 20 countries currently responsible for developing policy and initiatives around the globe. Jason most recently served as the Presi- on reducing antibiotic use on livestock and antibiotic dent and CEO of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation resistance, GMO labeling and biotechnology, meat and (NMSF), the non-profit partner to the U.S. national marine poultry safety, and seafood safety. She’s served on the U.S. sanctuary system. He served in the National Oceanic and State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Atmospheric Administration‘s Office of General Counsel Economic Policy, on the National Academy of Sciences’ handling issues relating to the Endangered Species Act. Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the FDA He currently serves as a member of the Marine Protected Food Advisory Committee. Areas Federal Advisory Committee.

The CONSEQUENCES FOR Human Health 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM Achieving Health And Sustainability 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM IS Our treatment of animals making us sick? LOOKING TO NATURE FOR SOLUTIONS

MODERATOR: Max Elder - Research Aysha Akhtar - Author - Director - FOOD FUTURES LAB Public Health Specialist

Max Elder is a Research Director in the Food Futures Lab at Aysha Akhtar, M.D., M.P.H., is a double Board-certified neu- Institute for the Future, the world’s leading futures thinking rologist and preventive medicine/public health specialist. organization. Mr. Elder has led work around the world with She is the author of the book, Animals and Public Health: food companies like Barilla, Hershey’s, and Campbell’s; Why Treating Animals Better is Critical to Human Welfare major foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; (Palgrave Macmillan), which examines how the treatment and innovative technology companies like Google and Intel. of animals impacts human health. In her TED Talk, she He is the youngest fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal discusses how treating animals better is not only good Ethics, a global think tank pioneering ethical perspectives for animals, but also good for us. Dr. Akhtar has spoken on animals. He has published in dozens of peer-reviewed and written extensively on the connection between animal journals and books; his research taught at universities protection and human health. including Harvard Law and Oxford. Neil Henderson Carter - Assistant David Welch - Director of Science Professor - University of Michigan and Technology - Good Food Institute

Dr. Neil Carter is a professor in the School for Environment Dr. David Welch is the Director of Science and Technology and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. His research at the Good Food Institute (GFI). He has more than fifteen utilizes field-based, quantitative, and conceptual approaches years of experience in the life science industry, and has to understand complex feedbacks among people, wildlife, been involved with product development, market develop- and ecosystems. He hopes his research advances science ment and commercialization of cells, scaffolds, cell repro- and informs decision makers on ways to conserve biodiver- gramming tools along with cell culture media for regenera- sity while also sustain (and improve) human well-being. His tive medicine and bioprocessing applications. At the Good research interests are wildlife ecology and conservation, Food Institute, he’s combined his doctoral studies of plant wildlife management and policy, landscape ecology, human biology with his extensive experience with regenerative med- dimensions of wildlife conservation, complexity of coupled icine. He uses this impressive combination in order to help human and natural systems, and sustainability science. companies and academic research institutions accelerate the development of plant-based and clean meat.

Challenges to Global Security 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Our exploitation of animals for our own use is destabilizing the world

MODERATOR: Sara Walker - Senior Rachel Dreskin - Executive Director - Advisor - Wildlife Trafficking - AZA Compassion in World Farming USA Sara Walker is the Senior Advisor on Wildlife Trafficking Rachel Dreskin is the US Executive Director at Compassion at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Prior to in World Farming. She leads Compassion USA’s growing joining AZA, Ms. Walker was the Executive Director of the role in forging a more humane and sustainable food and U.S. Wildlife Trafficking Alliance (USWTA), until a merger farming system through measurable farmed animal welfare was announced in 2018 that AZA and WTA would be joining improvements and protein diversification. She works with forces to combat wildlife trafficking. As the Senior Advisor many Fortune 500 companies where she seeks to incorpo- on Wildlife Trafficking, Ms. Walker will continue to lead the rate and bolden the role of animal welfare within corporate efforts of the WTA and also work closely with AZA members sustainability programs. Ms. Dreskin effectively marries her on wildlife trafficking issues. Prior to leading the WTA, she background in corporate marketing, and advertising with was Director of Wildlife at The Humane Society of the U.S. her passion for animals rights to aid Compassion in World Farming. Lydelle Joubert - Stable Seas Program - Lindsay Moran - Head of Communications - One Earth Future Foundation Environmental Investigation Agency

Lydelle Joubert joined One Earth Future Foundation’s Stable Lindsay Moran is Head of Communications for the Environ- Seas Program in November 2018. She is an expert on mental Investigation Agency, a non-profit watchdog group global piracy and counter-piracy efforts and also contrib- using undercover investigations to expose environmental utes research on trafficking in illicit goods, transnational crime and make sustainable management of the world’s organized crime, African maritime security, and maritime natural resources possible. A former CIA Operative and domain awareness. Lydelle brings first-hand experience in author of the best-selling memoir Blowing My Cover: My the private security sector and the South African military. Life as a CIA Spy, Ms. Moran joined EIA in 2017 with over She has her MA in International Relations, Honores in 20 years’ experience across a broad professional spectrum International Politics and BA in Political Sciences from the to include intelligence, covert operations, and print and University of Pretoria, South Africa. broadcast journalism. A national security expert, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Huffington Post, and various other publications.

Challenges to Global Security 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Tools For A Safer Future 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Our exploitation of animals for our own use is destabilizing the world INNOVATION FOR CONSERVATION

MODERATOR: David O’Connor - Permanent Dr. ALEX DEHGAN - CEO/FOUNDER - Observer of IUCN to the United Nations CONSERVATION X LABS

David O’Connor is the Permanent Observer of IUCN to the Dr. Alex Dehgan is a Creative serial innovator, entrepreneur, United Nations, representing the international conservation scientist, and experienced diplomat and development organization in UN negotiations and also organizing, with leader, specializing in creative approaches to taking on WCS and the Government of France, a Knowledge Dialogue and solving grand challenges in conservation, development, series to bring the latest conservation science and practice and foreign affairs with a record of success in more than to the attention of international diplomats and policy 80 countries on six continents. He is the co-founder of makers. Prior, he was Chief of Policy and Analysis in the Conservation X Labs, focused on harnessing exponential United Nations Division for Sustainable Development, where technologies, open innovation, and entrepreneurship for he and his team supported substantively the negotiations conservation. He is also The Chanler Innovator in Residence of the UN sustainable development goals and the 2030 at Duke University, where he researches and lectures on Agenda for Sustainable Development. technology and innovation for conservation and development. Dr. Eric Dinerstein - Director - Biodiversity Stephen M. Kohn - Executive Director - and Wildlife Solutions - RESOLVE National Whistleblower Center

Dr. Eric Dinerstein is Director of WildTech and the Biodiver- Stephen M. Kohn is widely recognized as one of the nation’s sity and Wildlife Solutions program at RESOLVE. Prior to his leading whistleblower and qui tam attorneys. He is the experience at RESOLVE, Dr. Dinerstein was Chief Scientist at author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing, making the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). With the World Wildlife Fund, him one of the top experts on whistleblower protection law he led many of the organization’s most important scientific in the world. Mr. Kohn is also the world’s most published projects, including the Global 200 Ecoregions, examples author on whistleblower protection laws. His successful of which form the basis of his book Tigerland and Other advocacy has resulted in landmark precedents in whis- Unintended Destinations. Dr. Dinerstein is also the author tleblower and qui tam law. He helped draft key whistleblower of The Kingdom of Rarities, The Return of the Unicorns: The legislation and regulatory rules, including those incorpo- Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned rated into the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act, the IRS Rhinoceros and What Elephants Know: A Novel, among other Qui Tam whistleblower amendments, and Whistleblower articles and publications. Protection Enhancement Act.

Compromising National Economies 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM What are the long-term costs of subsidizing unsustainable industries?

MODERATOR: Glenn Prickett - Isabel Jarrett - Manager - Ending Harmful Founder - Rock Creek Strategies Fisheries Subsidies - Pew Charitable Trusts

As head of Rock Creek Strategies, LLC, Prickett brings more Isabel Jarrett manages Pew’s campaign to reduce harmful than 30 years of experience in sustainability, government fisheries subsidies, which is working with the World Trade relations and corporate practices.He was Chief External Organization to reduce the billions of dollars in government Officer at The Nature Conservancy, founded and led the payments that contribute to unsustainable fishing. She Center for Environmental Leadership in Business at Conser- also launched the organization’s global shark conservation vation International, and was a senior fellow at the United efforts in Asia, and contributed to implementing landmark Nations Foundation to help shape core elements of an measures governing international trade in sharks and rays effective global response to climate change. He served the at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Clinton Administration as chief environmental advisor at the Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Convention on the U.S. Agency for International Development, coordinating U.S. Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals. environmental and energy assistance to developing nations. Jon Lovvorn - SVP and Chief Counsel - Bruce Rich - The Humane Society of the United States Attorney - Author

Jonathan Lovvorn is a Lecturer in Law, Clinical Lecturer Bruce Rich is an attorney and writer who has published in Law, and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law extensively on the environment in developing countries and School, and Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for development in general. He is the author of a major critique Animal Protection Litigation at The Humane Society of the and history of the World Bank, Mortgaging the Earth: The United States. He has litigated extensively in state and World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis federal courts on behalf of animals and the environment of Development (Beacon Press 1994,1995; Island Press He holds academic appointments at Harvard Law School, 2013). Awarded the United Nations Environment Program Georgetown University Law Center, and New York University Global 500 Award for Environmental Achievement, he has School of Law, and has published a number of articles testified many times before the U.S. Congress and has written concerning animal law, climate change, and wildlife policy. for the Financial Times, The Ecologist, and The Nation, as well as for Environmental Forum, the policy journal of the Washington DC Environmental Law Institute.

Compromising National Economies 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: Is Food Hijacking Our Future? 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM What are the long-term costs of subsidizing unsustainable industries? MODERATOR: CAROL MCKENNA, SPECIAL ADVISOR, COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING

Max Elder - Research Janet Maro - Executive Director - Director - FOOD FUTURES LAB Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania

Max Elder is a Research Director in the Food Futures Lab at Janet Maro is the founder of Sustainable Agriculture Tan- Institute for the Future, the world’s leading futures thinking zania (SAT), an award winning non-profit organization that organization. Mr. Elder has led work around the world with focuses on the expansion of small-scale sustainable agricul- food companies like Barilla, Hershey’s, and Campbell’s; tural practices. Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) seeks major foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; to link farmers, educators, researchers, and government in and innovative technology companies like Google and Intel. order to develop and inspire agro-ecological knowledge. He is the youngest fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ms. Maro hopes to spread the sentiment that small-scale Ethics, a global think tank pioneering ethical perspectives farmers can use agroecological knowledge to economically on animals. He has published in dozens of peer-reviewed provide for their families, all while conserving the environ- journals and books; his research taught at universities ment, and reducing the strain on natural resources. including Harvard Law and Oxford. Danielle Nierenberg - President - Rosie Wardle - Programme Director - The Food Tank Jeremy Coller Foundation

In 2013, Danielle Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank with Rosie Wardle is the Jeremy Coller Foundation’s Programme Bernard Pollack, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused Director, leading the factory farming programmes. on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished Rosie holds a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages and eaters. Food Tank is a global convener, research organiza- Linguistics from the University of Oxford, and an MA from tion, and creates original research about impacts of the the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. An active supporter current food system. Food Tank’s Summits are held of a number of animal protection charities, Rosie is internationally and across the US. The organization partners passionate about animal rights and welfare and the post- with over 70 major organizations including academic animal economy. institutions like George Washington University and Tufts; U.N. organizations like the FAO, UNEP, and IFAD. Her knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited in major print and broadcast outlets worldwide. keynote speakerS 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM SunDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 SunDAY,

PATRICK RAMAGE - DIRECTOR - Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan - MARINE CONSERVATION - IFAW Founder - EPIC Animals Patrick Ramage has advised major companies and testified before the United Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan founded, at age 5, EPIC-Animals, a program that States Congress, all with one goal in mind: to rescue whales. Under his leader- teaches kids about endangered animals and how to take legislative and insti- ship, IFAW has been at the forefront of worldwide efforts to reduce ocean noise, tutional action to save them. EPIC stands for Every Person Initiate Change, it’s a mitigate disruptive shipping routes, and end commercial whaling. Patrick has call to action. Astrid believes that messages delivered from young kids have an helped call out indefensible whaling practices in Iceland, Norway and Japan, innate magical quality that appeals to everyone from industrialists, to politicians. and helped shift petroleum company construction in Russia away from the The early engagement also prepares kids to better manage the planet, which Western Gray Whale’s nursing grounds. By maintaining strategic partnerships and soon will be theirs. Astrid has partnerships with NGOs in many countries including open dialogues with leading scientists, government officials, industry executives, AfricaASAP in Tanzania, Global Choices in Finland, and the Vatican where she will media representatives, mariners, fishermen, and shipping organizations, Patrick adapt for children the Pope’s Encyclical, Laudato Si, with indigenous kids from is advancing practical solutions to the most urgent threats against whales. the epicenter of climate change, deforestation and poaching.

keynote speakerS Transforming Economic Landscapes 11:00 aM - 12:00 PM CHANGING THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS

MODERATOR: tim scott - senior policy Jim Procanik - Executive Director - Advisor - UN Development Program Veridium Foundation Tim Scott serves as Policy Advisor on Environment with the Jim Procanik, is a serial entrepreneur who has developed Sustainable Development Cluster of the Bureau for Policy and run businesses in several countries and in several and Programme Support of the United Nations Develop- industries but found his true calling while working on the ment Programme. He is responsible for ensuring synergies pre-eminent “REDD” project called the Rimba Raya Biodiver- between the work of the Environment and Natural Capital sity Reserve (www.rimba-raya.com). As a co-founder of Infini- Team, other environmental programming, and UNDP’s teEARTH with Todd Lemons (www.infinite-earth.com), he saw broader work on the social, economic and governance first-hand the struggle that exists between our consumption dimensions of sustainable development. Tim has worked for based economic model and the devastation it often causes more than fifteen years with UNDP, as well as with the public in the environment. He is co-founder and ED of the Veridium sector and civil society on issues of sustainable develop- Ecosystem, built on the STELLAR Blockchain, a collaborative ment, economic growth and social progress. initiative between a coalition of industry leaders. Dr. Brian Von Herzen - James Workman - Founder - Executive Director - Climate Foundation Aquashares

Dr. Von Herzen serves as Executive Director of the Climate James G. Workman is the founder of Aquashares, a California Foundation and leads projects on land and sea with based company that helps water authorities solve their research groups in India, Africa, USA and the Pacific Ocean. tragedy of the commons with the world’s first online water Over the last decade, he has developed Marine Perma- savings market platform. He draws on three decades expe- culture to restore fish productivity in subtropical oceans, rience as an investigative journalist, White House appointed to ensure economically and ecologically sustainable food speechwriter, award-winning author of several books, senior security. Dr. Von Herzen has been conducting research in communications advisor under Nelson Mandela’s World Woods Hole regarding autonomous guidance of Marine Commission on Dams, and program director focused on Permaculture arrays. He also researched, developed and natural resource conservation markets for water, wildlife, commercialized biochar reactors for sanitation that produce forests and fish. Mr. Workman also wrote the award-winning biochar (organic charcoal for agricultural purposes) which Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us holds carbon in the soil for thousands of years. Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought.

Endangering The Environment 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Are we forgetting other species in our plans for the future of the planet?

MODERATOR: stefanie spear - Chris Clark - Ret. Sr. Scientist - Bioacoustics Founder - ecowatch Research Program - Cornell University

Stefanie Spear works with people and organizations Dr. Chris Clark is a gifted and accomplished scientist who leading the charge for change. She has more than 30 years recently retired after 30 years in the Department of Neu- experience as an entrepreneur and leader in the grassroots robiology and Behavior at Cornell University. At Cornell, Dr. environmental movement with a focus on communications + Clark worked as a research professor and senior scientist. marketing. She is the founder of EcoWatch, Expedite He has a long history of successfully working at the interface Renewable Energy and Stellar Consulting, where she is help- between science, applied engineering, industry, and regula- ing move the needle on the most critical issues impacting tions–all with the specific objectives of understanding the people + planet. In January 2020, Stefanie will be joining potential impacts of human activities on marine mammals the crew of eXXpedition, an all-women crew sailing around and to inspire and enable the scientific conservation of the world to raise awareness about the devastating environ- marine wildlife and habitats. He’s devoted to scientific advocacy mental and health impacts of single-use plastics. through documentary films includingRacing Extinction. Stephanie Feldstein - Director - Population & Dr. Curt Stager - Professor - Sustainability - CTR for Biological Diversity Paul Smith’s University

Stephanie Feldstein leads the Center’s work to highlight and Dr. Curt Stager is the first recipient of the Lussi-Draper En- address threats to endangered species and wild places from dowed Chair in lake Ecology and Paleoecology, and currently runaway human population growth and overconsumption. teaches at Paul Smith’s College in upstate New York. He’s Previously Stephanie worked for Change.org, where she an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist, helped hundreds of people start and win online campaigns and has published over three dozen peer-reviewed articles to protect wildlife. She created the innovative Take Extinc- in major journals including Science and Proceedings of the tion Off Your Plate campaign, and her work has been fea- National Academy of Sciences, and has written extensively tured in The Huffington Post, NPR, Salon, The Guardian, The for general audiences in periodicals such as National Geo- Washington Post, and more. She’s experienced in organizing, graphic, The New York Times, Fast Company, and Adirondack outreach and communications, with a focus on animals and Life. Since 1990, he has also co-hosted Natural Selections, the environment. She is the author of The Animal Lover’s a weekly science program on North Country Public Radio Guide to Changing the World (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018). that is syndicated internationally.

TowardsTowards Aa Sustainablesustainable Planetplanet 2:302:30 PMPM -- 3:303:30 PMPM WhatCONSIDERING are the ALTERNATIVES long-term costs of subsidizing unsustainable industries?

MODERATOR: Richard Schiffman - Leilani Münter - Professional Stock Car ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALIST Race Driver - Biologist - Environmentalist

Richard Schiffman is the author of two books and is a Leilani Münter is a biology graduate, professional race car poet based in New York City, as well as a former freelance driver and environmental activist. She uses her race car to journalist. His work has appeared in over 35 journals get environmental messages in front of the 75 million race including the New York Times, Salon.com, The Christian fans in the USA. Her race cars have carried messages about Science Monito, Smithsonian, HuffPost, the Guardian and renewable energy from wind and solar power in addition to leading literary journals. His radio stories have been heard clean energy legislation. Ms. Münter has also been active on “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” Weekend in the effort to end cetacean captivity and has run the Edition and Monitor Radio. His “Spiritual Poetry Portal” can documentaries The Cove and Blackfish on her race cars. be found here. Since then, Discovery’s Planet Green named her the #1 eco athlete in the world. She is an avid advocate for solar power, electric cars, plant-based diet and animal rights. Dr. Kelly O’Donnell - Director of Science Royden Saah - Program Coordinator - Forward - Macaulay Honors College Genetic Biocontrol Island Conservation

Dr. Kelly O’Donnell is the director of Science Forward at Royden Saah is the Program Coordinator for the Genetic Macaulay Honors College. Shel is an evolutionary ecologist Biocontrol of Invasive Rodents Partnership (GBIRd) to safely, with an interest in invasive plants and plant response to effectively, and ethically develop and evaluate the suitability the novel conditions of the urban environment. She has of engineered mice with the potential to control, or even conducted research on invasive Japanese knotweed and eradicate, introduced, damaging (invasive) populations on compared natural selection dynamics of that species with islands. Mr. Saah has a wealth of experience in multifac- a non-invasive relative, woodland knotweed. Dr. O’Donnell eted projects that includes leading the construction of is very interested in undergraduate science education and a children’s’ hospital lab in Monrovia, Liberia during the outreach. At Stony Brook where she received her doctorate, West African Ebola outbreak and managing a multi-agency she created video podcasts for an introductory biology health-preparedness effort during a 2012 national political laboratory and investigated the effect of these podcasts on convention. student performance and attitudes. OPTIMISM 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Democratizing innovation for the end of extinction

Dr. ALEX DEHGAN - CEO/FOUNDER - CONSERVATION X LABS Dr. Alex Dehgan is a Creative serial innovator, entrepreneur, scientist, and experienced diplomat and development leader, specializing in creative approaches to taking on and solving grand challenges in conservation, development, and foreign affairs with a record of success in more than 80 countries on six continents. He is the co-founder of Conservation X Labs, focused on harnessing exponential technologies, open innovation, and entrepreneurship for conservation, including launching the first Grand Challenge for Conservation on Aquaculture. He is also The Chanler Innovator in Residence at Duke University (and previously served as the Inaugural Rubenstein Fellow at Duke), where he researches and lectures on technology and innovation for conservation and development. OPTIMISM 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM REIMAGINING NATURE 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Democratizing innovation for the end of extinction CAN WE SEE AN ALTERNATIVE FUTURE?

MODERATOR: Gopal Patel - Beth Allgood - U.S. Country Director - Director - Bhumi ProjecT. IFAW. Gopal Patel serves as Director of the Bhumi Project, an Beth Allgood assures the strategic development and international initiative that works with Hindu communities implementation of U.S. projects and campaigns with special to address global environmental concerns, such as climate emphasis on U.S. role in ivory trade, wildlife trafficking, change. Thei project has run campaigns to make Hindu and wildlife security issues. Beth oversaw the strategic temples environmentally-friendly, protecting tigers and lions development and implementation of IFAW’s U.S. campaigns in India, and training young people for climate action. to protect whales from threats, address global wildlife crime Current work includes training religious leaders in India and protect elephants. She leads IFAW’s innovative work about renewable energy, and promoting climate-friendly to look beyond GDP for alternatives that better promote lifestyles within Hindu communities in the U.S. happiness and well-being for people and animals. Mary Ellen Hannibal - Author - Mitchell Joachim - Co-Founder - Citizen Scientist. Terreform ONE. Mary Ellen Hannibal is an award-winning journalist and Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and ur- author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope banism. He is a co-founder of Terreform ONE and Terrefuge, in an Age of Extinction. She is a sought-after speaker with a and is on the faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. talent for connecting the scientific community to the public. Formerly he was an architect at Gehry Partners and Pei Her work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Cobb Freed, and he has been awarded the Moshe Safdie The New York Times, Esquire, Elle, Yoga Journal, Livestrong, Research Fellowship. Joachim won the History Channel and and Nautilus, among many other outlets. She is an Alicia Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, Patterson Foundation Fellow and a recipient of the National and Time Magazine‘s “Best Invention of the Year 2007” for Association of Science Writes’ Science and Society Award. his Compacted Car with MIT’s Smart Cities.

Dr. Todd Kuiken - SR. Researcher - Genetic Theanne Schiros - Scientific Director - Engineering & Society CTR - NC State Univ. ALGIKNIT

Dr. Todd Kuiken is a Senior Research Scholar at the Genetic Theanne Schiros, PhD, is Assistant Professor at FIT, where Engineering & Society Center at North Carolina State Univer- she teaches physics, chemistry and sustainability courses. sity. He was the principal investigator on the Wilson Center’s She is the FIT coordinator and faculty lead for the inter- Synthetic Biology Project, where he had numerous projects national Biodesign Challenge, guiding students on how to evaluating and designing new research and governance rethink textiles through technology, biology and sustainable strategies to proactively address the biosafety, biosecurity design. She is the co-founder of Algiknit, a start-up devel- and environmental risks associated with synthetic biology. oping kelp-based biomaterials and bioyarn for sustainable He was recently appointed to the UN Convention on textiles in a closed loop life cycle. Biological Diversity Ad-Hoc Technical Expert Group.

keynote speaker schedule: Saturday, september 14 sUNDAY, september 15 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

9:00AM - 9:45AM Keynote speakers DR. Mary Melnyk, 10:00AM -10:45AM Keynote speakerS PATRICK RAMAGE, carol mcKenna Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan

10:15AM - 11:15AM the consequences for human health 11:00AM - 12:00PM tRANSFORMING ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES moderator: Jill Baron moderator: TIM SCOTT Speakers: Dr. HELLEN AMUGUNI, JEAN HALLORAN, JASON PATLIS Speakers: Jim Procanik, Dr. Brian Von Herzen, James Workman

11:30AM - 12:30PM ACHIEVING HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY 1:00PM - 2:00PM ENDANGERING THE ENVIRONMENT moderator:max elder moderator:stefanie spear Speakers: Aysha akhtar, NEIL HENDERSON CARTER, DAVID WELCH Speakers: Chris Clark, Stephanie Feldstein, Dr. Curt Stager

2:00PM - 3:00PM CHALLENGES TO GLOBAL SECURITY 2:30PM - 3:30PM TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE PLANET moderator:SARA WALKER moderator:Richard Schiffman Speakers: RACHEL DRESKIN, Lydelle Joubert, Lindsay Moran Speakers: Leilani Münter, Dr. Kelly O’Donnell, Royden Saah

3:30PM - 4:30PM TOOLS FOR A SAFER FUTURE 4:00PM - 4:30PM OPTIMISM moderator:David O’Connor Speaker: Dr. ALEX DEHGAN Speakers: Dr. ALEX DEHGAN, Dr. Eric Dinerstein, Stephen M. Kohn

5:00PM - 6:00PM COMPROMISING NATIONAL ECONOMIES 5:00PM - 6:30PM REIMAGINING NATURE moderator:Glenn Prickett moderator:Gopal Patel Speakers: Isabel Jarrett, Jon Lovvorn, Bruce Rich Speakers: Beth Allgood, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Mitchell Joachim, Dr. Todd Kuiken, Theanne Schiros 7:00PM - 8:30PM ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: IS FOOD HIJACKING OUR FUTURE? moderator: carol mcKenna Speakers: Max Elder, Janet Maro, Danielle Nierenberg, Rosie Wardle u T h i n k i n g amn i a l s t e Printed on 100% recycled paper d keynote speaker 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

10:00AM -10:45AM Keynote speakerS PATRICK RAMAGE, Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan

11:00AM - 12:00PM tRANSFORMING ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES moderator: TIM SCOTT Speakers: Jim Procanik, Dr. Brian Von Herzen, James Workman

1:00PM - 2:00PM ENDANGERING THE ENVIRONMENT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 SATURDAY, moderator:stefanie spear Speakers: Chris Clark, Stephanie Feldstein, Dr. Curt Stager

2:30PM - 3:30PM TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE PLANET moderator:Richard Schiffman Speakers: Leilani Münter, Dr. Kelly O’Donnell, Royden Saah

4:00PM - 4:30PM OPTIMISM Speaker: Dr. ALEX DEHGAN DR. PHYLIP LYMBERY - CEO COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING 5:00PM - 6:30PM REIMAGINING NATURE Dr. Philip Lymbery is a naturalist, author and chief executive of the leading moderator:Gopal Patel international farm animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming Speakers: Beth Allgood, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Mitchell Joachim, (CIWF). His book, Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat gained international Dr. Todd Kuiken, Theanne Schiros acclaim, earning him a reputation as one of industrial farming’s fiercest critics. Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester, Lymbery has been listed as one of the food industry’s most influential people. Recipient of the ‘outstanding campaigning’ award by Eurogroup for Animals and the International Golden Dove peace prize in Rome. Lymbery led the growth of CIWF internationally, with offices in 10 countries across Europe, the USA, South Africa and China, engaging with major food companies and achieving game-changing legislation.

keynote speaker schedule: Saturday, september 14 sUNDAY, september 15 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

9:00AM - 9:45AM Keynote speaker DR. PHYLIP LYMBERY 10:00AM -10:45AM Keynote speakerS PATRICK RAMAGE, Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan

3:30PM - 4:30PM TOOLS FOR A SAFER FUTURE 4:00PM - 4:30PM OPTIMISM moderator:David O’Connor Speaker: Dr. ALEX DEHGAN Speakers: Dr. ALEX DEHGAN, Dr. Eric Dinerstein, Stephen M. Kohn

5:00PM - 6:00PM COMPROMISING NATIONAL ECONOMIES 5:00PM - 6:30PM REIMAGINING NATURE moderator:Glenn Prickett moderator:Gopal Patel Speakers: Isabel Jarrett, Jon Lovvorn, Bruce Rich Speakers: Beth Allgood, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Mitchell Joachim, Dr. Todd Kuiken, Theanne Schiros 7:00PM - 8:30PM ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: IS FOOD HIJACKING OUR FUTURE? moderator: PHYLIP LYMBERY Speakers: Max Elder, Janet Maro, Danielle Nierenberg, Rosie Wardle u T h i n k i n g amn i a l s t e Printed on 100% recycled paper d keynote speaker 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

10:00AM -10:45AM Keynote speakerS PATRICK RAMAGE, Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan

11:00AM - 12:00PM tRANSFORMING ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES moderator: TIM SCOTT Speakers: Jim Procanik, Dr. Brian Von Herzen, James Workman

1:00PM - 2:00PM ENDANGERING THE ENVIRONMENT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 SATURDAY, moderator:stefanie spear Speakers: Chris Clark, Stephanie Feldstein, Dr. Curt Stager

2:30PM - 3:30PM TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE PLANET moderator:Richard Schiffman Speakers: Leilani Münter, Dr. Kelly O’Donnell, Royden Saah

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Dr. Mary Melnyk - Environmental Security and Resilience Team Leader - USAID Dr. Mary Melnyk is the Environmental Security and Resilience Team Leader for the USAID’s Asia Bureau and has 30 years experience working on community development, biodiversity conservation and the environment in Latin America and Asia. She has been in the Asia Bureau since 2001 and is currently engaged in USAID efforts to address water security, glacier melt and the conservation of tigers and snow leopards. She has also developed and facilitated public-private sector alliances linking environmentally- sustainable and socially-responsible products to markets. Past work has included a body of research analyzing forest conflict in Asia. Her Ph.D. is in ecological management from Imperial College of the University of London and quantified the economic and nutritional values of forest foods to rural livelihoods in Southern Venezuela. She graduated summa cum laude, B.S.in zoology from the Univ. of Maryland, College Park.

Transforming Economic Landscapes 11:00 aM - 12:00 PM keynote speaker CHANGING THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

MODERATOR: tim scott- senior policy Jim Procanik - Executive Director Advisor- UN Development Program Veridium Foundation Tim Scott serves as Policy Advisor on Environment with the Jim Procanik, is a serial entrepreneur who has developed Sustainable Development Cluster of the Bureau for Policy and run businesses in several countries and in several and Programme Support of the United Nations Develop- industries but found his true calling while working on the ment Programme. He is responsible for ensuring synergies pre-eminent “REDD” project called the Rimba Raya Biodiver- between the work of the Environment and Natural Capital sity Reserve (www.rimba-raya.com). As a co-founder of Infini- Team, other environmental programming, and UNDP’s teEARTH with Todd Lemons (www.infinite-earth.com), he saw broader work on the social, economic and governance first-hand the struggle that exists between our consumption dimensions of sustainable development. Tim has worked for based economic model and the devastation it often causes more than fifteen years with UNDP, as well as with the public in the environment. He is co-founder and ED of the Veridium sector and civil society on issues of sustainable develop- Ecosystem, built on the STELLAR Blockchain, a collaborative ment, economic growth and social progress. initiative between a coalition of industry leaders. Dr. Brian Von Herzen - James Workman - Founder Executive Director - Climate Foundation Aquashares

Dr. Von Herzen serves as Executive Director of the Climate James G. Workman is the founder of Aquashares, a Califor- Foundation and leads projects on land and sea with nia-based company that helps water authorities solve their research groups in India, Africa, USA and the Pacific Ocean. tragedy of the commons with the world’s first online water Over the last decade, he has developed Marine Perma- savings market platform. He draws on three decades expe- culture to restore fish productivity in subtropical oceans, rience as an investigative journalist, White House appointed to ensure economically and ecologically sustainable food speechwriter, award-winning author of several books, senior security. Dr. Von Herzen has been conducting research in communications advisor under Nelson Mandela’s World Woods Hole regarding autonomous guidance of Marine Commission on Dams, and program director focused on Permaculture arrays. He also researched, developed and natural resource conservation markets for water, wildlife, commercialized biochar reactors for sanitation that produce forests and fish. Mr. Workman also wrote the award-winning biochar (organic charcoal for agricultural purposes) which Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us holds carbon in the soil for thousands of years. Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought.

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PATRICK RAMAGE - DIRECTOR Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan MARINE CONSERVATION - IFAW Founder - EPIC Animals Patrick Ramage has advised major companies and testified before the United Astrid Tuuli Grace Determan founded, at age 5, EPIC-Animals, a program that States Congress, all with one goal in mind: to rescue whales. Under his leader- teaches kids about endangered animals and how to take legislative and insti- ship, IFAW has been at the forefront of worldwide efforts to reduce ocean noise, tutional action to save them. EPIC stands for Every Person Initiate Change, it’s a mitigate disruptive shipping routes, and end commercial whaling. Patrick has call to action. Astrid believes that messages delivered from young kids have an helped call out indefensible whaling practices in Iceland, Norway and Japan, innate magical quality that appeals to everyone from industrialists, to politicians. and helped shift petroleum company construction in Russia away from the The early engagement also prepares kids to better manage the planet, which Western Gray Whale’s nursing grounds. By maintaining strategic partnerships and soon will be theirs. Astrid has partnerships with NGOs in many countries including open dialogues with leading scientists, government officials, industry executives, AfricaASAP in Tanzania, Global Choices in Finland, and the Vatican where she will media representatives, mariners, fishermen, and shipping organizations, Patrick adapt for children the Pope’s Encyclical, Laudato Si, with indigenous kids from is advancing practical solutions to the most urgent threats against whales. the epicenter of climate change, deforestation and poaching.

keynote speakerS Transforming Economic Landscapes 11:00 aM - 12:00 PM CHANGING THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS