00:17:27.270 --> 00:17:34.710 Mark Reynolds: Welcome, welcome to the may citizens climate lobby call my name is mark Reynolds i'm a member of the citizens climate lobby board and i'll be hosting today's call. 117 00:17:35.190 --> 00:17:39.840 Mark Reynolds: What we'll be doing over the course today first is we'll have our two guests from American for us. 118 00:17:40.290 --> 00:17:53.340 Mark Reynolds: American for us really important organization one nation under trees healthy for us are our pathway to slowing climate change and advancing social equity, such a beautiful statement so we're lucky to have them. 119 00:17:53.910 --> 00:17:59.100 Mark Reynolds: After we hear from our guest today we're going to be going over what we're inviting you to do this month. 120 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:04.350 Mark Reynolds: followed by some of the interesting things that are happening, both domestically and with our international work. 121 00:18:04.650 --> 00:18:08.490 Mark Reynolds: And then the last thing I want to do today is talk a little bit about the June conference. 122 00:18:08.820 --> 00:18:20.670 Mark Reynolds: Some of you will be attending live some of the elite attending virtually there are some really important features that I want point to I think there's some particularly important talks this round, so I wanted to take some time and focus on that. 123 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:27.960 Mark Reynolds: One of the things I like to do is tell our guests, a little bit about the people they're speaking to. 124 00:18:28.260 --> 00:18:37.410 Mark Reynolds: And there's a lot of things that i'll say but i'll just start with these people are very active, so I just want to touch on a few of the things that they did this month, the first one actually stretches a little bit more. 125 00:18:37.800 --> 00:18:52.200 Mark Reynolds: than a month we started this action when Russia invaded Ukraine we create a commitment to have 40,000 people contact their members of Congress and the President and today 42,241 people have made contact. 126 00:18:52.770 --> 00:18:59.130 Mark Reynolds: With their member of Congress and the President, we also made a commitment to do 500 events that would be a combination of. 127 00:18:59.430 --> 00:19:06.270 Mark Reynolds: outreach events things like tabling presentations etc, and so far 897 events have happened. 128 00:19:06.660 --> 00:19:16.920 Mark Reynolds: And really remarkably for an organization that has not been able to table for two years 256 tabling events and so that's been great to be out there in the field again. 129 00:19:17.280 --> 00:19:24.030 Mark Reynolds: there's also three outreach tours one in Tennessee and Kentucky one in Mississippi one in new Mexico Arizona and Nevada. 130 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:36.600 Mark Reynolds: And that ended up with a total of 76 outreach events that happened in the month of April, also in addition to that, we are volunteers got 97 op eds published in 200 letters to the editor. 131 00:19:37.080 --> 00:19:47.160 Mark Reynolds: Regarding our op eds over 80% of the op eds that we submit get published by newspapers and particularly in the month of April, when so many people are competing for space during earth month. 132 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:57.420 Mark Reynolds: To have over 90% is really remarkable and for everybody who submitted Thank you and a particular shout out to Charlotte Ward and our comms department for giving us such great. 133 00:19:58.020 --> 00:20:09.450 Mark Reynolds: material to work with so American forces, the oldest nonprofit conference conservation group in the United States and we're really lucky to have two guests today. 134 00:20:09.870 --> 00:20:15.930 Mark Reynolds: We have john daly who's the President and CEO and Joel Joel panel, who is Vice President of urban forestry. 135 00:20:16.170 --> 00:20:27.060 Mark Reynolds: So, gentlemen, welcome so great to have you and hopefully they'll be some time for some Q amp a after opening statements and we'll be monitoring that so you don't have to keep an eye out for those questions will make sure that we keep an eye out for them. 136 00:20:29.070 --> 00:20:36.300 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Mark thanks so much it's such a joy to be with all of you today Thank you so much for the work that you do. 137 00:20:37.260 --> 00:20:47.700 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Incredibly inspiring to watch the video and i've had a front row seat as brother in law and Sam Daley Harris to watch the growth citizens climate lobby over the years and so. 138 00:20:48.210 --> 00:20:53.820 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: know about the kinds of mind blowing statistics that mark just shared about effectiveness that you all have. 139 00:20:54.150 --> 00:21:03.930 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: and passion that you bring to this work that you're here on a Saturday afternoon, giving your time to act on climate change, so thank you for what you do were inspired by you and we're incredibly grateful. 140 00:21:04.230 --> 00:21:21.450 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: I told myself to have a little bit of time with you today to talk about a we think is the profound role that trees and forests can play in dancing a climate action and climate justice can just do a quick check and everyone at see my screen now. 141 00:21:22.950 --> 00:21:34.590 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Fantastic Okay, so what we want to do is a one of the movie trailer not the movie we'd like to talk for like an hour and 45 minutes about all these things, but we want to give you just enough that hopefully we can have a second date so you know. 142 00:21:35.370 --> 00:21:45.330 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: What I do is kind of take you over the treetops of the key issues here on the intersection of forest, the climate action and climate justice and and including some of the policy opportunities. 143 00:21:45.630 --> 00:21:51.630 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And then see what that brings out the question and answer and hopefully that sets up ways that we can work together going forward. 144 00:21:52.320 --> 00:22:00.210 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: So the first thing is, I think he kind of got to know who you're dealing with here, and so I just want to speak personally what Why am I here what Why did I come to earth and for us. 145 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:08.550 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: to five years ago to pivot the nation's oldest forest conservation organization, you know 147 years young at this point. 146 00:22:09.270 --> 00:22:17.700 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: To to holy focus on climate change and social activity and the intersection to, and you know my journey started with reading and the nature. 147 00:22:18.210 --> 00:22:26.430 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: right when it came out actually more than 30 years ago I went out sold my car and made some big decisions in my life that I was going to live climate action every day. 148 00:22:26.850 --> 00:22:31.920 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And nothing's changed that i've been on it throughout the different twists and turns in my career. 149 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:38.700 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And my other great inspiration is that woman, you see there on the right is the Reverend patty daily even five years young and she's still rocking it. 150 00:22:39.420 --> 00:22:48.810 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Working in the most socially disadvantaged places she can find as Reverend and ministering to people who need it most, and that for me it's just. 151 00:22:49.230 --> 00:22:56.340 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: created this deep commitment to social racial equity and justice as a foundation for my life and so. 152 00:22:56.730 --> 00:23:07.830 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: American forest I can I can promise you, this is not an organization that cares about trees and 70 latched on to climate change in social equity we're not going to be happy if we succeed on something for us and it doesn't. 153 00:23:08.190 --> 00:23:19.410 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: end up saving our climate and delivering real change and social racial equity and justice in this country that that team that you look out there, for we full grown fourfold in about four years. 154 00:23:19.710 --> 00:23:32.880 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: is filled with people who just wake up every single day and they're just like you, they live and die doing everything they possibly can, on these issues and the way that they come together and so just know that. 155 00:23:33.330 --> 00:23:43.500 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Our metrics for success are the same as your metrics for success and look, you know the great thing about it is we don't have to make trees and forests to climate change solutions they actually already are. 156 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:57.750 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Here in the United States are for us and forth products which by the way, store carbon and also have other greenhouse gas benefits because they're actually more energy efficient to manufacture the materials like cement and steel. 157 00:23:58.830 --> 00:24:08.640 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Together, provide a net carbon sink about 16% of our carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are really important climate change benefit they're already getting. 158 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:20.880 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: From our trees and forests in forest products, the United States that's but that's the starting point and the science tells us that if you don't do anything that's actually going to start going down a quick precipitously. 159 00:24:21.390 --> 00:24:29.520 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Thanks to things like wildfire and actually just the impact of climate change on for us it's one of the biggest reason why that will start that climate benefit. 160 00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:40.890 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: will start to zero if we don't do something so part of what we have to do is keep our forests, healthy and resilient in the face and climate change and climate perfect Defense, but we can also expand. 161 00:24:41.340 --> 00:24:48.870 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Our forest ability to take in carbon naturally taking carbon dioxide sequester, it is the the actual term of art. 162 00:24:49.170 --> 00:24:55.110 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And so I want to talk about just a couple of examples of what this carbon offense and carbon Defense if you will look like. 163 00:24:55.650 --> 00:25:03.630 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: To see if we can go from that 16% and at least hold the line, but maybe make it a lot more and there's some science to suggest that we could potentially as much as double. 164 00:25:03.930 --> 00:25:09.150 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: or nearly double that climate change benefit that we're getting from our choosing for us right now. 165 00:25:09.690 --> 00:25:12.330 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: So here's a great example of the carbon offset side. 166 00:25:12.540 --> 00:25:21.210 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And look there's there's some pretty simple science at work that one tree that you see there on the left, you know from our work with the US forest service we've done the analysis, the average during the United States. 167 00:25:21.540 --> 00:25:26.820 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: over its lifetime that's going to sequester up Point six to have a ton of carbon. 168 00:25:27.630 --> 00:25:34.200 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: So it's it's the carbon dioxide, excuse me so it's a you know each one of these trees each tree we ads and landscape. 169 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:45.150 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: is essentially an additional carbon removal of device that to expand on that it can't just be more trees, has to be the right kinds of trees and ecologically appropriate places. 170 00:25:45.990 --> 00:25:49.950 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: But we've done that analysis this reforestation have that you see here on the right. 171 00:25:50.370 --> 00:25:58.170 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And this is a tweet and go out and check it out yourself those county by county across the entire United States and there's a tool we built with the nature conservancy. 172 00:25:58.560 --> 00:26:02.520 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: That shows exactly where we can add trees, when we should add trees. 173 00:26:03.030 --> 00:26:12.090 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: To increase this natural carbon capture and actually quantifies for you how much additional carbon capture will get in each of these different locations and each of these different types. 174 00:26:12.360 --> 00:26:21.990 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: of adding treats the landscape, whether it's urban for us or agro forestry adding treated farms and ranches or whether we're talking about, for example, reinforcing burned over. 175 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:30.420 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: landscapes, we mapped all of it, and so you can go in there and explore that and talk to your Members of Congress about opportunities to bring more trees on landscape. 176 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:41.010 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And if you add it all together by our analysis, we can increase carbon capture in our forests by more than 40% just by maximizing this more trees opportunity. 177 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:51.420 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Well, what about this carbon defects and, as I alluded to earlier, you know our forests are under immense stress and climate change wildfires that the one that you probably see. 178 00:26:51.840 --> 00:27:00.030 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: that are most aware of, but actually a lot of times wildfire follows on other ways in which climate change is impacting our forest like tree mortality. 179 00:27:00.390 --> 00:27:09.660 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: I mean California with 150 million trees have died and just the last decade alone, driven by climate stresses, for example. 180 00:27:10.020 --> 00:27:18.360 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And so they're all sorts of ways in which climate change is essentially undermining forest health and then the unhealthy for us are more prone to burn. 181 00:27:18.870 --> 00:27:29.940 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: So counterintuitive though it might be, there are some places where we actually need to subtract more trees in the landscape, ideally, turning them into forest products were brokerage and get store that carbon and we've taken off the landscape. 182 00:27:30.750 --> 00:27:39.780 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: But by actually having fewer trees, in some cases we're going to get a more stable carbon sink over the long term and net gain for our climate can be very, very substantial. 183 00:27:40.050 --> 00:27:50.310 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: You actually have some western states and that fit to and that's a source of carbon from the forest because they're not doing this kind of work to prevent mortality of forest and to prevent wildfires. 184 00:27:52.800 --> 00:28:01.020 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: So I want to shift now to the intersection of trees and climate and climate justice and look good we don't just need trees to help us slow, climate change, but we need. 185 00:28:01.290 --> 00:28:09.390 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: To protect us from climate change and that starts with protecting us from the incredible threat of extreme heat. 186 00:28:10.050 --> 00:28:19.410 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: In our cities and in this map that you see here are the picture that you see her on the left and not and not be see her on the right reveals a fundamental reality of cities. 187 00:28:19.770 --> 00:28:26.010 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Which is that a map of trees, is also a map of income and a map of race in ways that transcend income. 188 00:28:26.490 --> 00:28:32.820 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And that has life or death implications in our city look already 12,000 people a year die from extreme heat. 189 00:28:33.330 --> 00:28:39.870 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: In the United States alone that's a number one loss of life from extreme weather which a lot of people don't know that. 190 00:28:40.320 --> 00:28:47.190 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: that number is predicted to get to 100,000 by the end of the central that we know that great research on weekends mercy. 191 00:28:47.700 --> 00:28:54.990 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And those deaths are going to be concentrated in neighborhoods that lack tree cover where people don't have air conditioning to cool their homes. 192 00:28:55.440 --> 00:29:06.690 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: They might not have you know the best health care plans or might have pre existing health conditions and so lower income communities communities of color that already faced different kinds of barriers and. 193 00:29:07.590 --> 00:29:14.730 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: This investment are the ones that are at the greatest risk and what we know from a tool we created called tree actually score. 194 00:29:15.030 --> 00:29:24.540 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Is that it is systemic across the country that a map of trees, is a map of income and a map of race and trade with a transcendence in fact just to make the point. 195 00:29:26.220 --> 00:29:32.880 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: jory communities of color have 33% less tree canopy, on average, regardless of income in the United States. 196 00:29:33.570 --> 00:29:39.330 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: So you can check this out for yourself don't don't take my word for it true equity score is easy to use, as your smartphone. 197 00:29:39.780 --> 00:29:47.820 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: You can jump on there right now and permission to multitask and just enter your town, and it was treacly square lets you do is see city why. 198 00:29:48.420 --> 00:29:53.070 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Some of these tree and equities, and your Community I let you actually the neighborhood by neighborhood. 199 00:29:53.340 --> 00:30:00.930 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: and see exactly where you have tree and equities and shows you both where there's lacking tree cover but also things like the percentage of people of color. 200 00:30:01.620 --> 00:30:09.390 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Age distribution health status actual urban heat island in those communities as well as economic indicators so we can see where. 201 00:30:09.810 --> 00:30:18.120 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: The lack of trees is having a great impact on people's vulnerability to climate change, and then the same tool actually lets you run a scenario to see what hey if I added. 202 00:30:18.390 --> 00:30:24.630 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: This many more trees to my community by one of every tree neighborhood in my community to have Ecuador tree cover with the benefits. 203 00:30:25.350 --> 00:30:36.990 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Now, how much do we do in terms of clean air and better protecting people from extreme and those kinds of things we hope this is a powerful tool for you to become an advocate for tree equity as a way to. 204 00:30:37.470 --> 00:30:41.160 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: more accurately detect people in our cities in climate change. 205 00:30:41.760 --> 00:30:51.870 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: But the good news is that this is a climate justice solution that's also actually climate action so choose not to choose the same action it's going to both protect people for climate change more accurately. 206 00:30:52.230 --> 00:31:00.000 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: But also it's going to help slow, climate change and urban trees, not only are surprisingly big part of the carbon capture and trees and forests, the United States. 207 00:31:00.570 --> 00:31:08.760 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: hundred and 30 million metric tons of CO2 per year, which is almost 20% of the carbon capture and america's trees and forests it's actually happening in our cities and towns. 208 00:31:09.450 --> 00:31:18.750 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: But those same trees also save a whole lot of energy with heating, cooling and so there's kind of another hidden a greenhouse gas savings and financial savings in the same trees. 209 00:31:20.010 --> 00:31:29.010 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And then, lastly, you know the great thing about this work of tree equity, as we all understand that the underlying inequities in our cities are so often economic. 210 00:31:29.520 --> 00:31:38.280 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And so we have an incredible opportunities and planting more trees in the neighborhoods that need them in those that are caring for trees in those neighborhoods that have more frequent losing them. 211 00:31:39.090 --> 00:31:44.310 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: To create jobs in the process, and by our research 25.7 jobs for every million dollars. 212 00:31:45.270 --> 00:31:51.030 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: In creating tree equity in our cities, and so, in that sense, we can create climate action climate justice angling jobs. 213 00:31:51.300 --> 00:32:02.460 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: in one fell swoop and that's why our organization is all in on asking for unprecedented public and private investing in this fantastic multi benefit upon change solution. 214 00:32:02.790 --> 00:32:14.340 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: So that's a little turn it over to my colleague Joel now, who will speak about some of the fantastic bipartisan policy opportunities and momentum, but to invest in those kinds of the planet opportunities. 215 00:32:25.620 --> 00:32:29.280 Mark Reynolds: Children Joe you're still muted muted, can you unmute your computer john Thank you. 216 00:32:29.700 --> 00:32:30.870 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: I am still. 217 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:33.600 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Still muted, so no. 218 00:32:34.260 --> 00:32:35.970 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Thank you Jerry and thank you. 219 00:32:36.120 --> 00:32:43.830 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Citizens climate lobby for having us it's a rare occasion where i'm happy to be joining my boss on the Saturday afternoon. 220 00:32:44.490 --> 00:32:55.080 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Just because this topic is so important, and I just think you just saw a little glimpse of the passion that the JET has for this issue and we just probably work for an organization that's leading. 221 00:32:56.550 --> 00:33:08.070 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: On these issues and substantial way, and so I want to talk a little bit about some recent recent legislative victories, as well as some opportunities to build further upon that to really realize the full benefits of trees and natural climate solution. 222 00:33:08.520 --> 00:33:19.290 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And, as I do that, I do want to underscore sort of two really important points so number one is that trees are proven bipartisan climate solution, I know that i'm preaching to the choir and you all know that but. 223 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:32.040 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: You know just to any narrative that are out there about this being a partisan issue just simply untrue, we can have healthy debates about scale of investment how paper things, but there is no debate on. 224 00:33:32.670 --> 00:33:43.620 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: trees and forests as a healthy climate solution for every community defensively rural urban, suburban and everywhere in between, and is evidence of that you know, we have the. 225 00:33:44.370 --> 00:33:58.950 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: bipartisan infrastructure investment in jobs Act, which is now the law of the land, and so there were several significant victories the replay that that i'll talk a little bit more detail talk about in a little bit more detail a little bit later, but we know that we have. 226 00:34:00.810 --> 00:34:06.990 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Senator manchin as the Chair of the Senate, energy and natural resources committee who's working on bipartisan legislation right now. 227 00:34:07.530 --> 00:34:14.520 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: We have the arcs act, we have the growing climate solutions that that I know you all have been very involved with, and so we have examples of. 228 00:34:14.820 --> 00:34:26.640 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Of these bipartisan solutions on the urban forestry side there's also there's about a dozen built right now that would scale up federal investment in urban community for free, right now, we have one federal program in the forest service dedicated to that. 229 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:33.870 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: But these bills would do that through various agencies, but the it Department of Energy and others and. 230 00:34:34.290 --> 00:34:41.880 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Three of those bills are actually very bipartisan to our lead currently by Republicans that include language for prioritizing funding in areas. 231 00:34:42.690 --> 00:34:54.420 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: That are typically underserved as well as areas of low tree or environmental equity so so tree equity you're hearing from me tree equity, yes, it is a bipartisan climate solution next slide please. 232 00:34:55.230 --> 00:35:05.700 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And so, when I The second point I wanted to make was that tree equity is is environmental justice, and so, and I know some people have asked what what's the connection between tree equity and environmental climate justice. 233 00:35:06.390 --> 00:35:11.820 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: The connection is the trick with us and brown little justice and the current administration has stated. 234 00:35:12.510 --> 00:35:25.110 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: priorities on climate, health and equity and equity again to sit perfectly at the intersection of all these issues and so there's lots of opportunities that we are currently working on to advanced re equity. 235 00:35:25.740 --> 00:35:32.130 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: At federal agencies now to the justice for the initiative, the Interagency working group on extreme heat that we co developed a. 236 00:35:32.910 --> 00:35:38.040 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Guy that the poor service released one using tree cover to combat urban heat island. 237 00:35:38.700 --> 00:35:52.380 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: This this was part of that announcement on the Interagency working group and then just getting agencies again beyond the usda in the forest service really getting them skin in the game in terms of how they're using trees as a network climate solution next slide. 238 00:35:53.790 --> 00:36:03.240 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And so, one of the ways that we're doing that is through advocating for the healthy streets program, so this is a program that was newly authorized in the bipartisan infrastructure bill. 239 00:36:03.750 --> 00:36:10.890 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Was not funded but it's authorized that $100 million annually for grants to communities to. 240 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:22.470 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Really, invest in tree the tree canopy tree assessments and then combining that with Kool aid me pavement strategies to really cool cities that are suffering the most from from climate change. 241 00:36:23.130 --> 00:36:26.550 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: jad and many of my colleagues were in phoenix about two weeks ago. 242 00:36:27.210 --> 00:36:34.680 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: phoenix is one of the is the first major usc to really publicly commit to tree equity they've got an amazing cool cord or Program. 243 00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:40.230 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Where again when I had my colleagues were out there, a couple of weeks ago they they were planting trees. 244 00:36:40.590 --> 00:36:48.240 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And a heavily let you know heavily low income Community that's literally you know baking in the sun, one of the one of the hottest cities in the world. 245 00:36:48.600 --> 00:36:54.060 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: and has realized that trees are just a more effective climate solutions and any any of the other things that they can do. 246 00:36:54.930 --> 00:37:06.450 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: So, again we really would love your support on on getting that healthy streets program funded and there's you know, a couple of opportunities to do that through the appropriations process this year will be will be staying with that next slide. 247 00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:19.830 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And so, one of the bipartisan bills, that is out there is the trees act it's bipartisan it's by Campbell it would it's based on a very popular program in sacramento. 248 00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:34.470 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Where the utility company there is providing free shade trees to private Homeowners and others to to really address cooling and utility cost issues, and so this is a bill that we would love to see. 249 00:37:36.120 --> 00:37:42.930 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: get a little bit more traction and move through whatever legislative vehicle presents itself again it's bipartisan and by camera well with. 250 00:37:43.350 --> 00:37:50.370 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Senator Booker and Senators capital lead on the Senate side and representative mitsui representative mckinley and others leading on the House side. 251 00:37:51.540 --> 00:37:52.410 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Next slide please. 252 00:37:53.970 --> 00:38:03.090 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And I know jumping back and forth a little bit, but some one of the big legislative victories we had wasn't a replant act in the infrastructure bill it created. 253 00:38:03.930 --> 00:38:13.290 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: 2.5 billion for post prior post fire restoration we actually believe that number is going to be significantly higher in terms of dollar value. 254 00:38:14.490 --> 00:38:24.270 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Once everything is said and done, and so that again was just a really big one, for us, or went for i'm sorry for the forestry Community writ large, there was more to do there. 255 00:38:24.810 --> 00:38:30.990 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: So the provides a lot of money to the national court system to provides a little bit of money to the Department of Interior who manages. 256 00:38:32.040 --> 00:38:41.280 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Many of many of our public for us as well, and so there's a lot more to do there to make sure that when it gets to states tribes landowners and others, so that we can again. 257 00:38:41.970 --> 00:38:49.710 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Appropriate the funding in the right way to realize the full benefit of investments in climate smart forestry and so we're really. 258 00:38:50.190 --> 00:39:00.240 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: excited also to see things like the trillion trees that are worth right that again address these issues in a really critical and bipartisan way next slide please. 259 00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.450 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And so Those are just a few of the legislative vehicles that really. 260 00:39:08.010 --> 00:39:13.290 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: emphasize the federal government partnering with private landowners and providing those financial incentive incentives. 261 00:39:14.550 --> 00:39:25.200 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: To actualize climate smart forestry and again just very grateful for what's already been done, we want to see if we can get some of these things over the finish line so we're very interested in working with. 262 00:39:25.740 --> 00:39:30.900 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Citizens climate lobby when things like the growing climate solutions act that I know you all were instrumental in helping get passed. 263 00:39:31.260 --> 00:39:38.790 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Very quickly, in the Senate and so hoping to get that across the finish line in the House and went to the president's desk and. 264 00:39:39.570 --> 00:39:50.430 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: that's some of the things that we're looking at ways to do that, and I think again, because this is is there's no debate that this is a bipartisan climate solution there's no debate about the benefits that. 265 00:39:51.090 --> 00:40:06.120 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: trees and forests bring to all communities of all sizes and if there's no debate about the climate, health and economic benefits, again, the trees bring to all communities, and so we really are looking forward to working with everyone in a collaborative way. 266 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:14.010 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: To come up with those effective solutions for the country that are good policy and so regardless of the politics or the process by which we get there. 267 00:40:14.700 --> 00:40:31.230 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: there's universal agreement, this is good policy in most cases it's non regulatory policy that really against speaks to climate action that we can take now to have admitted that immediate benefits and then also benefits for future generations, and so, with that i'll turn it over to Jen. 268 00:40:32.340 --> 00:40:33.210 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Let you wrap it up. 269 00:40:33.630 --> 00:40:43.290 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: yeah and I just quick closing comment, and so I went a little longer than we had intended, but we get excited i'm sorry because wait so fun to share this with you all we know how passionate you are about the same issues and so i'll leave it at that. 270 00:40:43.530 --> 00:40:45.960 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: you're opening nailed it it's about climate hope. 271 00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:53.550 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Climate despair you're not getting us anywhere, we need hope and the one of the things that you think is really powerful about this work. 272 00:40:53.790 --> 00:41:00.720 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Because, everyone can participate we've got governments to girl scouts girl scouts USA literally when they try to figure out what they want to do on climate change. 273 00:41:01.140 --> 00:41:09.120 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Created the girl scout troop promise which we're partnering with them on the plant 5 million trees in the next five years to act on climate change, because it is something that they. 274 00:41:09.600 --> 00:41:15.120 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: actively participate in directly on the ground, and so we think that this movement. 275 00:41:15.630 --> 00:41:25.350 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: From cities to wilderness offers chances for people to touch in and be part of a solution and get climate rope and get momentum and let that feed into the broader climate movement and all the things. 276 00:41:25.590 --> 00:41:39.090 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: that we need to do so we'll stop there, and just can't wait to get your any of your qualifying questions, and again I really hope that we can keep this collaboration going forward and support each other working integrates with possible. 277 00:41:39.420 --> 00:41:44.220 Mark Reynolds: yeah so the We thank you so much that was fantastic flannery what what kind of questions you feeling so far. 278 00:41:45.420 --> 00:41:52.530 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: Alright, so our top up voted question is from Kate they're asking if you could comment on. 279 00:41:53.580 --> 00:42:05.700 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: The growing population and the need to use farmland to grow food, so it just in general, how do you think about land use, questions and the need to to also plant trees. 280 00:42:06.450 --> 00:42:15.330 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: was a fantastic question and so i'm going to give a short answer and then love to follow up with interested folks on this The good news is there, there are lots and lots of the. 281 00:42:16.560 --> 00:42:23.280 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: tree opportunities on agricultural lands that actually don't reduce agricultural outlets and, in some cases even enhance them. 282 00:42:23.970 --> 00:42:33.720 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Things like planting trees in the roads between props by soho pasture where you're adding trees on to ranch lands, which actually creates healthier ranch lands for the. 283 00:42:34.350 --> 00:42:46.560 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: The animals that are grazing there and those kinds of things and so we're really focused on those when when opportunities, where we can actually have better agriculture and we can also have carbon positive farming by adding treason against it. 284 00:42:49.080 --> 00:42:49.710 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: that's great. 285 00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:55.830 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: Okay, we had a couple of questions about maintaining trees after they're planted. 286 00:42:56.370 --> 00:42:57.540 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: Is that something that American. 287 00:42:57.540 --> 00:42:58.320 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: Forests has. 288 00:42:58.350 --> 00:43:05.640 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: programs around 110% you know so Joel mentioned when we start the urban side and Joel mentioned this. 289 00:43:06.090 --> 00:43:13.830 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Forestry guide that we created with the US forest service or not just managing our urban forest better than ever, but to do it. 290 00:43:14.130 --> 00:43:21.840 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: With an understanding of the climate stresses on our for us and how to maximize their resilience over the long term, and all the benefits we need them to provide. 291 00:43:22.200 --> 00:43:29.940 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: For climate justice for public health and those kinds of things so we're really intent on that and so with partners cities like phoenix, for example. 292 00:43:30.600 --> 00:43:39.210 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: You know we're going very, very deep on getting that information and tools out to all the 50 plus partner organizations grassroots groups, all the way to. 293 00:43:39.420 --> 00:43:44.400 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: city agencies that are working together on it so we're all using those exceptional for three principles. 294 00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:49.200 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And that's really the shorthand for how we do it in every single place we're working whether it's. 295 00:43:49.410 --> 00:43:54.240 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: The camp fire burn scar in California, where we're partnering with the Federal agencies to restore that. 296 00:43:54.420 --> 00:44:03.090 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Or whether it's doing urban forestry the tree equity we're all we like to think of ourselves with logs for that we're into the key details of forestry and we know we need to be. 297 00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:09.240 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: we're going to get the lasting outcomes that we're seeking investment that will make you there are trees and forests. 298 00:44:10.710 --> 00:44:19.980 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: And Jeff I could just add to that we were limited on time, so we really we could spend a whole day talking to you as well, but our career pathways program, but we know that the. 299 00:44:20.610 --> 00:44:33.750 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: Urban forestry sector is going to be growing by 10,000 or more jobs, just in the next several years and we really designed our career pathway program so that we are creating economic opportunities in the very communities that have. 300 00:44:34.740 --> 00:44:45.840 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: hit first and worse by climate change and so that important work of making sure that those trees are maintained established and they're going to grow into healthy urban canopy. 301 00:44:46.140 --> 00:44:53.070 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: is something that we're really focused on very intentionally about creating jobs workforce development opportunities pre employment. 302 00:44:53.880 --> 00:45:05.490 Joel Pannell, American Forests VP of Urban Policy: curriculum wraparound services for people who have sort of systemic barriers to employment, working to do all of that, so that we are addressing both that issue as well as the economic equity issues at the same time. 303 00:45:07.740 --> 00:45:12.300 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: Wonderful well you guys have come to the right place that would walk so found the climate. 304 00:45:12.300 --> 00:45:12.600 nerds. 305 00:45:15.510 --> 00:45:17.010 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: marked we have time for one more question. 306 00:45:17.010 --> 00:45:18.270 Mark Reynolds: We did we do flannery Thank you. 307 00:45:18.810 --> 00:45:28.410 Flannery Winchester, CCL Sr. Director of Communications: Okay we've had a few questions about wildfires in the West, how do you think about the growing threat of wildfires in the context of this work. 308 00:45:29.490 --> 00:45:34.170 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Oh it's absolutely huge and really what you have a whole nother call is to get into that one. 309 00:45:34.470 --> 00:45:44.910 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: But let me just say two things number one is, it is a, it is a carbon problem is a public health problem, it is a water problem, it is a mudslides problem I can keep going it's a habitat problem I mean. 310 00:45:45.420 --> 00:45:57.810 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: wildfire has about doubled in the western us and, as a result of climate change with actually even been able to trace the change to the way climate is drying out our forest making tinder dry. 311 00:45:58.230 --> 00:46:09.840 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And, as I said, it's making them unhealthy and then that opens them up to these explosive wildfires so we have to change what we're doing, because climate change has changed the game for a fourth are actually out of sync. 312 00:46:10.290 --> 00:46:18.870 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: With the with the climate and so there's two ways we think about it, one is in the forest that we still have the ones that haven't burned down, for example, like the campfire. 313 00:46:19.290 --> 00:46:24.570 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: it's about using science and climate science, particularly to understand. 314 00:46:25.110 --> 00:46:31.950 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: How many trees and what type of trees can survive on that landscape in the future and, in many cases we just can't have as many trees per acre. 315 00:46:32.190 --> 00:46:40.980 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Because, as I saw one of the questions that came in, because of water bill goes there isn't as much soil moisture is not much water availability and so you actually can't literally have as many trees on some of these. 316 00:46:41.730 --> 00:46:54.870 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: acres you know and have them be sustained and healthy, as well as even the way that fire passes through the landscape in some of these places the clumping and spacing of the trees versus if they're overly dense and has a big. 317 00:46:55.470 --> 00:47:05.880 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: impact on how fire vulnerable they are so in existing for us it's about creatively using for us for sure you kind of reshape them and restructure them so that they're more wildfire Brazilian. 318 00:47:06.420 --> 00:47:16.410 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: But the huge opportunity that Joel spoke about and that's why we've got bipartisan support for this replant X invest billions of dollars in post fire reforestation is. 319 00:47:17.100 --> 00:47:21.060 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: It was a tragedy to lose our forest a wildfire but it's chance to start over again. 320 00:47:21.690 --> 00:47:30.810 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And so what we're doing and places like the campfire in California, which was the most still the most destructive wildfire in California history and other places like this, all across the West. 321 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:41.310 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: is to use science to say Okay, instead of looking backwards and trying to replace the forest, how do we look for it forward and say what kind of forest can survive on this landscape. 322 00:47:41.700 --> 00:47:50.790 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: into the future based on the climate changes that are already in motion, and so it tends to lead you to the mixture of certain tree species are there now and genetic. 323 00:47:51.210 --> 00:47:56.460 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: You know features a tree species that are there now combined with things that we want to introduce into landscape. 324 00:47:56.760 --> 00:48:07.050 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: And really poorly not you know non native species that we're pulling from other countries, but often it's tree species from other parts of the same state that are maybe hotter and dryer, for example, or. 325 00:48:07.620 --> 00:48:16.020 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: places, or even the same Tracy slightly different genetic strains of those pieces taking species that are from the southern end with trees range and starting to. 326 00:48:16.680 --> 00:48:25.200 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: cultivate seeds and actually replant seeds into the same ones in the northern edge of the range so you're actually kind of planting more heat and drought resilient trees. 327 00:48:25.590 --> 00:48:34.980 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: farther and farther North as you go forward and so those kinds of forestry details in the post by reforestation can actually help with plant wildfire resilience, from the start. 328 00:48:35.820 --> 00:48:45.300 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: In these in these landscapes, we think that's a really overlooked part of getting to greater wildfire resilience into the into the future in 20% of the West for us. 329 00:48:46.020 --> 00:48:56.580 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: You know, have a burning in recent decades, and so we're gonna have a lot of this post fire reforestation to do and so it's actually an opportunity to think our way into smarter way to do it. 330 00:48:58.500 --> 00:49:11.880 Mark Reynolds: right that was fantastic gentlemen, thank you so much, we we really look forward to partnering with you and figuring out how we can work together and collaborate, I mean it's particularly refreshing to hire someone from an organization, other than ours talking about bipartisanship. 331 00:49:13.140 --> 00:49:17.250 Mark Reynolds: We feel like a lovely voice out on that sometimes, and also that your work. 332 00:49:17.640 --> 00:49:29.370 Mark Reynolds: helps communities that have been disadvantaged, is also very heartening to hear, so please feel free to stick around for the next 10 minutes we're going to go over a couple of things, but if you have to drop off it's a Saturday afternoon we understand, but thank you so much that was fantastic. 333 00:49:30.090 --> 00:49:31.350 Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests: Great Thank you so much. 334 00:49:31.710 --> 00:49:38.790 Mark Reynolds: Sure great okay So what do we, what do we inviting you to do this, this month Well, first of all it's actually regarding the June conference. 335 00:49:40.020 --> 00:49:49.350 Mark Reynolds: And so that's could be helping the people who already registered make sure that they can attend sometimes you fundraise for people, particularly young people, students Center people who are going for the first time. 336 00:49:49.710 --> 00:49:55.920 Mark Reynolds: there's over 400 people who signed up to schedule appointments and so, if you can start to get those meetings. 337 00:49:57.090 --> 00:50:02.580 Mark Reynolds: Organized whether that's going to be actually on the hill I think more of them will be indistinct or virtual. 338 00:50:02.820 --> 00:50:10.020 Mark Reynolds: But beginning to do the work for that also and then a little bit later i'll talk about the worldwide, a month of action that's happening coordination also. 339 00:50:10.530 --> 00:50:18.090 Mark Reynolds: Also plan your summer time campaign season and the different types of grassroots activities, you can do over the course of the summer. 340 00:50:18.810 --> 00:50:33.480 Mark Reynolds: On April six our San Mateo county chapter sponsored a nonpartisan environment and climate candidate forum for the top contenders three democrats and one republican who was working to replace Jackie spear who they'd been working with for 10 years who's retiring from Congress. 341 00:50:34.560 --> 00:50:38.970 Mark Reynolds: The Forum was offered by zoom and registration was handled by event bright. 342 00:50:39.540 --> 00:50:48.270 Mark Reynolds: They recruited three local nonprofits to co sponsor and invite people, they also got 12 local participating organizations to help to publicize it to their membership. 343 00:50:48.660 --> 00:51:02.070 Mark Reynolds: Also, they did a lot of REACH outreach to media, which ended up with two newspapers doing stories on the forum and actually one of the TV stations katie vu in San Francisco doing a segment on their news channel. 344 00:51:03.240 --> 00:51:08.970 Mark Reynolds: At the event there was 145 people in attendance and over 350 have viewed it since then. 345 00:51:09.390 --> 00:51:17.490 Mark Reynolds: There was a brief introduction why one of their student leaders and then people had submitted questions and advanced to the moderator and we're able to do some additional questions on zoom. 346 00:51:18.120 --> 00:51:27.750 Mark Reynolds: The chapter leadership feels that sponsoring the forum was important in many ways, establish CCL is a significant entity within the local climate environment community. 347 00:51:28.170 --> 00:51:38.670 Mark Reynolds: Established goodwill towards CCL as a provider of an important public service and morton most importantly it raise the visibility of CCL with whomever is elected to Congress in November. 348 00:51:39.060 --> 00:51:43.590 Mark Reynolds: It also underscored climate change is a critical election issue in our district. 349 00:51:44.010 --> 00:51:48.120 Mark Reynolds: And just so you know if you're if you're beginning to plan or you are playing in that like that. 350 00:51:48.420 --> 00:51:51.630 Mark Reynolds: It took Sam a tale about three months to put everything together to do that. 351 00:51:51.900 --> 00:52:00.840 Mark Reynolds: And we're going to drop brad steal the primary organizers contact information in the chat he is generally offered to answer any questions that anybody. 352 00:52:01.140 --> 00:52:09.690 Mark Reynolds: Has about how you might do that, so I just wanted to point to that as an example of one thing you might do graduations to San Mateo for getting such great. 353 00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:15.510 Mark Reynolds: Such a great turnout and such a great event. 354 00:52:16.170 --> 00:52:25.770 Mark Reynolds: Okay, so I just want to point to a couple things one that's coming up in one that are in process, one is in June on June 4 in West Virginia they're having the West Virginia faith conference. 355 00:52:26.220 --> 00:52:32.670 Mark Reynolds: So that's going to get dropped in the chat if you're interested our West Virginia volunteers just continue to be absolutely remarkable. 356 00:52:33.090 --> 00:52:44.460 Mark Reynolds: At trying to find additional ways to support and gets Senator manchin support so there's quite a bit of quite a few faith leaders who have speaking at it and we're very excited about that event. 357 00:52:45.150 --> 00:52:53.130 Mark Reynolds: Also in the Senate, the galley amendment is getting growing bipartisan support that's the amendment the supports the Montreal Protocol. 358 00:52:53.940 --> 00:52:59.400 Mark Reynolds: senate leadership has given us very specific language they would like us to use if you reach out to your Senator. 359 00:52:59.670 --> 00:53:10.650 Mark Reynolds: What they would like you to message is American competitiveness, they don't want you to talk about climate change, they want you to focus on American competitiveness, so if you choose. 360 00:53:10.950 --> 00:53:19.320 Mark Reynolds: To reach out to your Senator about the support for the cat cali amendment, please use the phrase American competitive somewhere in your messaging. 361 00:53:21.270 --> 00:53:23.520 Mark Reynolds: Also assistance climate international. 362 00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:34.950 Mark Reynolds: works on two fronts, one is, we now have 134 chapters in 76 countries so we're we continue to build and support chapters all over the world. 363 00:53:35.190 --> 00:53:45.450 Mark Reynolds: But the other track that citizens climate international works on is the UN process, and one of the things that CCI has been doing is working hard to make that process more inclusive. 364 00:53:45.720 --> 00:53:49.920 Mark Reynolds: more transparent get more people in the room, basically. 365 00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:57.690 Mark Reynolds: So what happens for a lot of countries, countries is they don't have the wherewithal to put together a delegation to send so they'll hire someone from another country to represent them. 366 00:53:58.020 --> 00:54:04.080 Mark Reynolds: And what we want is that every country, for instance in there and bond this summer, they actually have their own representative. 367 00:54:04.380 --> 00:54:14.460 Mark Reynolds: So what we've done is we've created a training program along with the fletcher school of management at tufts university and what we will be doing is training those delegates. 368 00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:24.840 Mark Reynolds: How to work in that issue it's a complex process being at those COP events, a lot of you've been to them, so you know how it is and sometimes it takes the two weeks, the event, just to figure out where to go and what to work on. 369 00:54:25.140 --> 00:54:30.990 Mark Reynolds: So we've we've done is we've created a program to train people to figure out how to work inside the UN process. 370 00:54:31.200 --> 00:54:42.930 Mark Reynolds: to learn how to be effective in those things, how to draw additional change the climate change so i'm really excited about that and really thrilled that we're partnering with the fletcher school of management at tufts okay. 371 00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:49.020 Mark Reynolds: So, first of all, before I get to the June Conference, I want to mention that Neil chatter G, the former head of. 372 00:54:49.230 --> 00:54:58.440 Mark Reynolds: Work is our speaker for June I suspect he knows something about energy transition so that was a big coup, just like this month speakers Neil chatterjee former head of for. 373 00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:06.570 Mark Reynolds: Okay, so i'm one of the people who is going to be going to DC I have been double boosted, along with getting the two. 374 00:55:07.500 --> 00:55:16.680 Mark Reynolds: original shots I have my end 95 masks i'm going to be bringing tests with me i'll be taking a test every day make sure if i'm exposed i'm not going to expose anybody else. 375 00:55:17.130 --> 00:55:31.620 Mark Reynolds: We also have the room setup with roundtables so there'll be more space in between people than there's ever been at one of our conferences and so i'm just telling you the precautions i'm taking i'm hoping that everybody else is doing something similar to what i'm doing. 376 00:55:33.480 --> 00:55:44.460 Mark Reynolds: I suspect will have between five and 600 people in DC and that they'll have will have most of you view viewing virtually, so this is a few features, the Conference, I want to point to the first panel. 377 00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:50.220 Mark Reynolds: That has the windy Lawson and amanda ripley they're going to talk to us about conflict. 378 00:55:50.640 --> 00:55:57.480 Mark Reynolds: And in particular amanda ripley's book about high conflict she points to a conflict and says conflict itself is good. 379 00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:09.960 Mark Reynolds: But when you get to the point of high conflict it's not good it's not healthy it gets to the point where winning and losing is not enough, it is really about having to humiliate your opponents, so I suspect. 380 00:56:10.350 --> 00:56:16.920 Mark Reynolds: That we're going to learn more about the landscape that we're in now, and how to be effective in that particular landscape. 381 00:56:17.220 --> 00:56:24.090 Mark Reynolds: Also, both Alex plan and Alex pause mosque you're speaking Those are two of the cornerstones of the American ECO right. 382 00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:33.930 Mark Reynolds: So if that's an area of interest to you both of them will be speaking on different sessions Center white house's comments from the reception on Monday night will also be streamed. 383 00:56:34.620 --> 00:56:43.410 Mark Reynolds: Given it's not always entirely predictable what time centers will show up at that event, if you miss the exact time at the at the reception, we will be recording that also. 384 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:51.360 Mark Reynolds: And then I want to mention one more speaker bill Sherman from in it together, Mr Sherman has been working. 385 00:56:51.840 --> 00:57:02.100 Mark Reynolds: For years, to build a coalition of NGOs and organizations that want to bring solutions to the 70% of Americans that don't exist on either French. 386 00:57:02.430 --> 00:57:11.640 Mark Reynolds: And so, he believes there's a coalition there and I think he's right where we can start electing people who appeal to the Center of American democracy. 387 00:57:12.240 --> 00:57:22.680 Mark Reynolds: Rather than just the the far left or the farm right, and I think that his comments will be interesting to you also so for the first time ever. 388 00:57:23.340 --> 00:57:34.320 Mark Reynolds: We will be doing a not just a conference in lobby day but a worldwide month of action and people will be doing all kinds of things so, for instance, the Canadians had their conference last week. 389 00:57:34.980 --> 00:57:42.450 Mark Reynolds: So they were on Parliament hill last week will report out on the details of that next month because technically, that was a may action so they'll be doing something else. 390 00:57:43.350 --> 00:57:55.320 Mark Reynolds: But, but all countries are being invited to join in Now I know that we look at our own situation and find it to have gotten increasingly difficult over the last several years. 391 00:57:55.800 --> 00:58:05.760 Mark Reynolds: One half the countries that we work in they do not have functioning democracies and, in many cases are functioning under a corrupt autocrat. 392 00:58:06.900 --> 00:58:15.360 Mark Reynolds: So what do they choose to do in the face of that and it's something that's really, really hard and difficult and hard to figure out your pathway they choose engagement. 393 00:58:16.020 --> 00:58:25.860 Mark Reynolds: So just like you and I will be doing this June our volunteers in the world will choose to engage on the subject to make project, no matter how hard or easy it is. 394 00:58:26.550 --> 00:58:41.880 Mark Reynolds: Okay, I want to thank Jan and Joel for joining us again that was just a fantastic presentation, thank you all for all you're doing will see you on June 30 through Neil chatterjee and I will look forward to seeing whoever is able to make it to DC and Jim thanks everybody appreciate it.