Lovejoy Center at DC Climate Week
The Lovejoy Center hosted a nature finance panel and reception at DC Climate Week
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On May 1st, the Lovejoy Center hosted a panel of four experts to discuss the future of nature financing at the inaugural DC Climate Week: Elizabeth Losos, Doug Miller, Bella Tonkonogy, and Chetan Hebbale. Focused on emerging innovative environmental market solutions, the event drew forty people who are passionate about a vision for a better future despite current funding losses and the deprioritization of initiatives to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. Panelists brought perspectives from across sectors to cover the breadth of policy, planning, data, and finance efforts needed to close the financing gap. Thank you to our panelists for sharing their incredible insights and experience, and to Rachel Gallery for moderating.
Phoebe Meixner
The University of Arizona had a strong presence at DC Climate week with the Institute for Energy Solutions also hosting the "Human Nature: Built Environments for Today and Tomorrow" panel.
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Following the panels, conservation leaders from around the world gathered with friends and family of Tom Lovejoy to celebrate the launch of the Lovejoy Center. Director Sharon Collinge, Rachel Gallery, Phoebe Meixner, Jonathan Bean, and Jen Garcia represented the Arizona Institute for Resilience (AIR) in a wonderful evening of connection, good food, and conversation.
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Dr. Díaz de la Rubia, Senior Vice President of Research and Partnerships, spoke about the importance of continuing research into resilience and conservation science, highlighting how the Lovejoy Center is perfectly at home within AIR and at the University of Arizona.
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The day's events were generously hosted by Jennifer Simpson with Galway Sustainable Capital at their DuPont Circle office.
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It was an incredible turnout to honor Thomas Lovejoy’s legacy of optimism in the face of undeniable challenge: this is what resilience looks like; let's keep it going.
Shoutout to Yazan Photography for the incredible photos of the reception, and for being so excited to realize that he was in a room full of other environmentalists who loved Tom!