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Raymond Chavez has more than 25 years of experience and a proven record of success with integrated climate change, biodiversity, ocean conservation and sustainable development programs. This work includes project design, strategic planning, public-private partnerships, fundraising, marketing and award winning multimedia and documentary film project... s with the BBC, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and PBS. Raymonds public, NGO and private sector experience spans the full spectrum of sustainable development including: agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, ocean conservation, forestry, environmental education, geographic information systems (GIS), renewable energy and water security. Raymond has worked on these publicprivate programs in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific enabling the transfer of skills and lessons learn among partners and donor networks across borders and cultures at the local community, national, regional and global levels. GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY is a world-renowned economist and mathematician, the creator of the Carbon Market of the UN Kyoto Protocol, the concept of Basic Needs, and the formal theory of Sustainable Development. She was the lead US author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. Her pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to create Green Capitalism. Chichilnisky is Professor of Statistics and Economics at Columbia University and currently a visiting professor at Stanford University. She acts as a special adviser to the UN, the IMF and the World Bank, is a TED speaker and frequently appears on CNN, ABC and BBC. Chichilnisky is the Co-Founder and CEO of Global Thermostat, an award-winning company that FORBES and KPMG say can reverse climate change. The Carbon-Negative Technology she co-invented with Global Thermostat captures CO2 from the air at low cost, transforming it into profitable assets, such as biofuels, beverages, polymers and carbon-negative power plants. ...Read More