Increasing Accessibility to Trusted Climate Performance Data
About the Conference
Companies, investors, and policy-makers in key greenhouse gas (GHG) opportunity areas – such as forestry, methane, and carbon removal – are looking for trusted, accessible information that can reliably quantify the GHG outcomes that investments in practices like reforestation, landfill gas controls, and carbon removal options will produce.
Unfortunately, however, trusted and accessible climate performance data can be hard to find in today’s dis-aggregated climate data world. The conference and workshop will explain how corporate reporting obligations and other well-intentioned efforts are not producing the type of actionable performance information that investors, companies, and policy-makers need. Speakers and conference participants will discuss how the private sector, including companies and NGOs, can work with universities and governments to generate more and better open-source, investment-grade climate performance data.
The conference and workshop will feature expert panels that dive into three target areas – forestry, methane, and carbon removal – as ripe areas for generating trusted, shareable performance data and analytics. Successful formulas for creating authoritative and interoperable data sets in medicine and other important contexts will be discussed. A closing workshop session will invite conference participants to share their experiences and perspectives on how best to develop and share more climate performance data, focusing on the forestry, methane, and carbon removal contexts.
Please note that this event is free but is invitation-only.
Conference Sponsors
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s Sustainability Accelerator, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program, CodeX Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and the Data Foundation
Confirmed Speakers
- Ryan Alexander, Senior Fellow, Data Foundation
- Catherine Atkin, Co-founder, Global Digital Single Market Data Alliance; Co-chair, Climate Data Policy Initiative and Fellow, CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
- Jason Burnett, CEO, Crosswalk
- Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Chief of Policy and Community Affairs, Vibrant Planet
- Lauren Cooper, Chief Conservation Officer, Sustainable Forestry Initiative
- Jad Daley, President and CEO, American Forests
- Dr. Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
- Nick Hart, President, Data Foundation
- David J. Hayes, Professor of the Practice at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford Law School
- Steven Hamburg, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
- Dr. Rob Jackson, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy
- Anu Khan, Founder and Executive Director, Carbon Removal Standards Initiative
- Kelley Kizzier, Director of Corporate Action and Markets, Bezos Earth Fund
- Christopher Konek, Lead Scientist, Global Methane Hub
- Dr. Julia Lane, Professor Emerita, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
- Kate Maher, Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford University; Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
- Dean Arun Majumdar, Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
- Ryan Orbach, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
- Nancy Pfund, Founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners
- Michael Schmitz, Co-chair, Climate Data Policy Initiative, CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
- Dr. Sam Volchenboum, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Chief Research Informatics Officer, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago
- Sonia Wang, Senior Advisor, Data Foundation – Climate Data Collaborative
- Liv Watson, Capitals Coalition Senior Digitization Advisor
- Jane Woodward, Founder & Managing Partner of WovenEarth Ventures and Founding Partner of MAP Energy
Click here to read our speakers’ full biographies.
Agenda
9:00 am Welcome
- David J. Hayes, Professor of the Practice, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford Law School
9:10 am The Imperative to Improve Accessibility to Trusted Climate Performance Data
- The Investor Perspective: Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners and Jane Woodward, WovenEarth Ventures; MAP Energy; Stanford University
- The Corporate Perspective: Catherine Atkin, Global Digital Single Market Data Alliance and Liv Watson, Expert in Digital Statutory Reporting
- The Public Decision-Maker Perspective: Jason Burnett, Crosswalk Labs, Packard Foundation, former Mayor & EPA official (with Ryan Alexander, Data Foundation)
10:30 am Break
10:40 am Addressing U.S. Methane Mitigation Data Needs & Opportunities (Speakers: Rob Jackson, Woods Institute for the Environment; Precourt Institute for Energy; Chris Konek, Global Methane Hub; Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund; Moderator: Sonia Wang, Data Foundation – Climate Data Collaborative)
11:25 am Addressing U.S. Forest Carbon Data Needs & Opportunities (Speakers: Chris Field, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University; Jad Daley, American Forests; Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Vibrant Planet; Moderator: Lauren Cooper, Sustainable Forestry Initiative)
12:10 pm Lunch Break and Luncheon Speakers: Dr. Sam Volchenboum, Director, University of Chicago, Data for the Common Good; Dr. Mark Musen, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
1:30 pm Addressing U.S. Carbon Dioxide Removal Project Data Needs & Opportunities (Speakers: Anu Khan, Carbon Removal Standards Initiative; Kate Maher, Woods Institute for the Environment; Ryan Orbuch, Lowercarbon Capital; Moderator: David J. Hayes, Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford Law School)
2:15 pm Comments from Dean Arun Majumdar, Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
2:25 pm Lessons Learned from Other Trusted Data Contexts – a fireside chat featuring Nick Hart, Data Foundation, and Julia Lane, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
2:50 pm Break
3:00 pm Simultaneous participatory workshop sessions for methane, forestry, and carbon dioxide removal use cases (Reporters: Michael Schmitz, ReCarbon; Climate Data Policy Initiative, CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics; Kelley Kizzier, Bezos Earth Fund; and Ryan Alexander, Data Foundation)
4:45 pm Wrap-up
5:00 pm Reception in the Courtyard