Impact updates & By the numbers

January

Woodwell Climate President and CEO Dr. R. Max Holmes, Board Vice Chair Tod Hynes, and Arctic Program Director Dr. Sue Natali traveled to Davos, Switzerland, site of the World Economic Forum, where they keynoted the Green Accelerator Davos, sharing the need for urgent climate action with nearly two hundred government officials, business leaders, and investors in attendance.

February

Woodwell’s Director of Government Relations Laura Uttley, External Affairs Analyst Natalie Baillargeon, and Alex Goldstein of 90West met with staff and senior advisors to several key federal legislators to discuss how the next Farm Bill can enable producers to further develop natural climate solutions.

Eric Lee

March

President and CEO Dr. R. Max Holmes featured in two events at CERAWeek—a premier energy conference hosted by S&P Global. He was paired with former Columbian President Iván Duque Márquez to discuss the importance of preserving the Amazon, then joined an expert panel addressing the feasibility of climate targets set in the Paris Agreement, and the need for greater ambition for a positive climate future.

April

The Biden administration released a new, first-of-its-kind inventory of mature and old growth forests on federal lands, as had been mandated by President Biden’s Earth Day executive order one year ago. Woodwell Climate scientists have been deeply involved in both the science behind this essential tool and its development, and plan to provide public comment on expected forest protection proposals building on this inventory.

May

Woodwell Climate returned to Mountainfilm in Telluride as the non-profit partner. Center leadership and scientists appeared in multiple events alongside climate activist and author Bill McKibben, North Face Mountaineer Conrad Anker, Protect Our Winters founder Jeremy Jones, and others.

By the numbers

Insights from recent Woodwell Climate publications

0.91 Tg %

Carbon calculated to have been emitted by tundra wildfires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, AK in 2015. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1537-2023

30 meters

Resolution of real-time forest carbon mapping using latest methods. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.rse.2023.113483

17.3%

Fraction of total global warming since 1851 attributable to U.S. https://doi.org/10.1038/ s41597-023-02041-1