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We need to rethink our Global Goals: to move beyond stabilization, beyond sustainability, towards regeneration. And along the way, reverse global warming.
/ CHAD FRISCHMANN /
Research to Action 2021 Conference
Co-hosted by the National Council for Science & the Environment (NCSE) and Project Drawdown
Chad organized, hosted, and spoke at this three-day conference. This joint conference focused on the physical and social realities of climate change and the way this impacts people, ecosystems, markets and the places people live; and how implementing climate solutions produces positive co-benefits to society, the economy, and the planet.
The conference grew and wove together diverse communities of more than 1000 scientists, researchers, decision-makers, innovators, entrepreneurs, industry, and public sector leaders to enhance a global movement founded on the use and application of science to address global complex environmental challenges, including 100+ speakers. The conference was rebroadcast on EarthX TV during Earth Week 2021.
We the Future
TED Global, Skoll Foundation, and the UN Foundation
TED talk @ The New York Climate Week, 2018
What if we took out more greenhouse gases than we put into the atmosphere? This hypothetical scenario, known as "drawdown," is our only hope of averting climate disaster, says strategist Chad Frischmann. In a forward-thinking talk, he shares solutions to climate change that exist today -- conventional tactics like the use of renewable energy and better land management as well as some lesser-known approaches, like changes to food production, better family planning and the education of girls. Learn more about how we can reverse global warming and create a world where regeneration, not destruction, is the rule.
This talk was presented at “We the Future,” a special event in partnership with the Skoll Foundation and the United Nations Foundation.
Drawdown and the Food System
MAD
Keynote @ The MAD Symposium, 2018
MAD, meaning ‘food’ in Danish, aims to transform the food system by giving chefs and restaurateurs the skills, community, time, and space to create real and sustainable change in their restaurants, in their communities, and across the world.
The MAD Symposium is an annual gathering on a small island in Copenhagen’s harbor, where the MAD team assemble people from the cooking world and other disciplines together. During this two-day experience, attendees discuss the things that matter most in food, like sustainable agriculture, social entrepreneurship, science, health, and creativity.
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When we implement all these solutions together, we shift the way we do business from a system that is inherently exploitative and extractive to a new normal that is by nature restorative and regenerative.
/ Chad Frischmann /
Launching Drawdown Netherlands
Drawdown NEtherlands, Interface Inc., and Dutch NAtional sustainability Congress
Keynote @ The 18th Dutch National Sustainability Congress, 2018
Video forthcoming.
The 18th Dutch National Sustainability Congress, the largest sustainability event in The Netherlands, played host to both the release of the Dutch translation of the book Drawdown, as well as the launch of Drawdown Netherlands, a collaborative initiative to support research, communication, and action around drawdown solutions.
Bringing a diverse selection of speakers, sharp debates, and a wide range of topics in a variety of sessions and expos, the Dutch National Sustainability Congress brought nearly 500 directors, managers and professionals from the business community and government to this year’s event.
@ The launch of the Dutch translation of Drawdown
Reducing Food Waste is a Climate Solution
Harvard University and ReFed
Keynote @ The U.S. Food Waste Summit 2018
ReFED, a nonprofit organization working with leaders across the food system to reduce waste, partnered with Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic to organize the 2018 U.S. Food Waste Summit, which took place at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. The Summit brought together more than 300 leaders from across the public, private and nonprofit sectors to accelerate solutions to food waste and achieve the national goal to cut food waste in half by 2030.
Drawdown: Solutions to Reversing Global Warming
German Energy Agency (dena), Climate-KIC, and The European Climate Foundation
Keynote @ The Drawdown Europe Launch, 2018
From Project Drawdown’s initial collaborative research project, Drawdown Europe was launched in April 2018 as an initiative of the German Energy Agency (dena), European Climate Foundation, and Climate-KIC. This joint venture will act as a center of research, innovation, and implementation focusing on solutions and the Drawdown framework, while capitalizing on European expertise and knowledge.
At the heart of it all is a considerable community of researchers, activists, business-leaders, politicians, policymakers and organizations who put forth and support these solutions within the European context.
Other speakers included:
Andreas Kuhlmann, CEO of the German Energy Agency (dena)
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Per Espen Stoknes, Psychologist, economist
Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala, CEO & Founder, Bakulu Power
Alexis Seller, Pollinate Energy India
Jules Kortenhorst, CEO Rocky Mountain Institute
Svenja Schulze, German Federal Minister for the Environment
Upcoming Events
June 29th, 7:00 - 8:00 am EST
We Got This - Sustainability Youth Programme hosted by Green is the New Black
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July 2nd, 8:25 -9:55am EDT
CESAER and the Royal Academy of Engineering
‘Net Zero World in 30 years’
Previous Speaking Engagements
2021
Speaker, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Circular Economy Talks
Keynote, TEK Talks x KAUTE Foundation
Keynote, Florida Climate Week, Hosted by the CLEO Institute & VoLo Foundation
Keynote, Subek Event
Webinar Leader, Projecting Change Talk - Queens University
Keynote & Interview, Collaborative Collision, Climate Change Solutions, Hosted by Florida State University and Florida A&M University
Keynote & Organizer, Research to Action 2021 - Science and Solutions for a Planet Under Pressure
Keynote, GEDANKENtanken Speaker Festival 2021
2020
Speaker, Science and Solutions for a Planet Under Pressure (Security and Sustainability Forum)
Speaker, The Climate Convergence: Uniting For Victory 2021
Keynote, UCSF Mini Medical School: The Health Emergency of Our Changing Climate Part 2: Evolving Public Health Strategies in the 21st Century
Keynote, The future of energy: Startup Energy Transition Week Online 2020 (German Energy Agency)
Speaker, TEDxJohannesburg Salon: Food Waste - The Deep Dive
Keynote, Drawdown 2020: The Time is Now
Keynote, Creating a Model for Global Decarbonization through Washington State Science, Engineering, and Technology (Washington State Academy of Sciences)
Speaker, Design Science Studio
Speaker, America Adapts podcast with Doug Parsons
Speaker, EELV Singapore / Sciences-Po / NUSUrgent: Federal Climate Bills and Strategy
Speaker, Fridays4Future at the European Alpbach Forum
Keynote, Talking Food with Charles Michel Virtual Conscious Festival (Green is the New Black)
Speaker, 2040 Movie Screening
Speaker, European Foundation Center (make_shift)
Keynote, Green Summit and Launch of Drawdown Hungarian translation (HVG Kiadó Zrt)
Keynote, Shakespeare and the Climate Emergency at The GlobeEarthX Energy Summit
Keynote, Let's Make History 2020: Challenging the System (Earth Day Network)
Keynote, Future 500 Summit "Responding to the Climate Emergency"
Panelist, Earth Day 50 Virtual Kickoff (March for Science)2020 Skoll World Forum, DEBT FOR NATURE SYMPOSIUM
Speaker, Invitation from the Dutch Parliament
Speaker, IBM Greenmix
Speaker, Communities for Future Online Summit: Our response to the Climate Emergency (Global EcoVillage Network)
Speaker, Clean + Cool Mission 2020
Plenary Panelist, Diverse Voices on Climate Resilience (NCSE Annual Conference 2020)
2019
Keynote, Province of Gelderland, The Netherlands
Keynote, 4per1000 General Assembly at UNFCCC COP 25
Keynote, Pacific Coast Collaborative West Coast Regional Action to Reduce Wasted Food and Support the Implementation of SDG 12.3
Plenary Keynote, Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Conference (G-STIC)
Keynote, Love Earth. Live Zero. Start a Ripple. Create a Wave. (Interface)
Speaker, Credit Suisse
Speaker, Salesforce France
Speaker, French Assembly
Presenter, Google Food Lab
Keynote & Workshop Leader, Drawdown Learn at the Omega Institute
Keynote, Cannon Design Environmental Awareness Week Theme: Evolve
Speaker, re:public On Sequence Tour
Speaker, Dialogues on Transforming Society & Self (DoTS) hosted by Otto Scharmer, The Prescening Institute (MIT)
Plenary Speaker, Research to Action: the Science of Drawdown ( Penn State University)
Speaker, Planet Home
Speaker, European Alpbach Forum, Austrian Federal Chancellery and BKMC - Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens’ “Promoting SDGs in Europe with a Global Mindset”
Speaker, European Alpbach Forum
Keynote, International Conference Energy & Meteorology
Keynote, 4th World Congress on Agroforestry
Keynote, Delft University of Technology’s All Energy Day
Keynote, CLEO Institute
Plenary Speaker, European Commission
Plenary Panelist, Drawdown Europe Summit
Panelist, Start Up Energy Transition’s “There is no Planet B” Panel
Speaker, US Government Accountability Office
Keynote, Global Forest Ltd
Speaker, DG CONNECT (EU Commission’s Directorate General on Communication Networks, Content and Technologies)
Speaker, DG MARE (Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries)
Speaker, Laney College: Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow
2018
Keynote, G-STIC 2018
Speaker, International School of Geneva
Plenary, National Sustainability Congress - Drawdown Netherlands
Workshop Leader, Omega Center for Sustainable Living
Panelist, Organic Sustainable Community
Speaker & Panelist, VoLo Foundation Climate Correction Conference
Presenter, MIT Climate Action Team
Speaker, International Conference on Sustainable Development
Speaker, TED Global at Climate Week 2018
Presenter, MAD Symposium
Presenter, 2018 US Food Waste Summit
Keynote, Carbon Leadership Forum NYCB Corp Leadership Development Bay Area
Speaker, PG&E Innovators Evening Lecture Series
Presenter, V Colombian Conference at MIT
Keynote & Panelist, WBCSD / The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Keynote, Drawdown Europe Launch
Panelist, Tech Festival 2018
Keynote, 1% for the Planet 2018 Global Summit
Speaker, Pew Charitable Trusts
Presenter, City of Sunnyvale Sustainability Speaker Series
2017
Keynote, Centre for Local Prosperity and Thinkers Lodge retreat: Climate Change, Drawdown and the Human Prospect
Speaker, Green America's Carbon Farming Supply Chain Innovation Network Founder's Meeting
Speaker, Climate Compassion Salon / UC - Berkeley
Speaker, Sequestering Carbon in Soil: Addressing the Climate Threat, Paris, France
Plenary, Northwestern Institute for Sustainability and Energy Climate Change Symposium
Speaker, Eat4Earth
Sustainable Enterprise Conference Contra Costa
Sustainable Enterprise Conference Marin
Lecturer, University of Washington, Environmental Innovation Practicum
Presenter, US EPA West Coast Climate & Materials Management Forum Webinar
Speaker, Environmental Forum of Marin Master Class
Presenter, Visions of the Wild Festival Opening Reception, Vallejo Community Arts Foundation & US Forest Services
Speaker, Clean + Cool Mission, Innovate UK, Volans
Speaker, University of Oxford St. Cross College
Presenter, ClimateWorks Foundation