Dennis Garrity on Climate Cooling Advocacy at this Thursday Feb. 22 4:30 EST HPAC General Meeting
Ron Baiman
What’s the Plan for Climate Cooling Advocacy?’
Dr. Dennis Garrity is a systems agronomist and research leader whose career has been focused on the development of small-scale farming systems in the tropics. He is currently Chair of the Board of the Global EverGreening Alliance, with 95 member organizations that are collaborating to implement massive-scale programs on land restoration in the developing world. He leads the Alliance’s Campaign to EverGreen the Earth. The Campaign advocates for achieving the goal to drawdown 20 billion tons of CO2 annually from the atmosphere through evergreening practices that also enhance biodiversity and improve livelihoods in the tropics.
He is Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi. He served as Director General of the Centre from 2001 to 2011. He then served as Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification from 2011 to 2018, emphasizing the role of agroforestry, evergreen agriculture and landcare as critical to sustainable land management. He is also a member of the Board of Global Landcare, a worldwide effort to support grassroots community-based natural resource management. He is currently co-leading an effort to secure a global pledge among nations to restore a safe climate by accelerating carbon removals.
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