Frederick Seitz was an American physicist,tobacco industry lobbyist,and climate change denier.
Timothy Endicott "Tim" Wirth is an American politician from Colorado who served as a Democrat in both the United States Senate (1987-1993) and the United States House of Representatives (1975–1987). He also served in several appointed roles in government,including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education during the Nixon Administration and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs for the U.S. State Department during the Clinton Administration. From 1998 to 2013,he served as the president of the United Nations Foundation,and currently sits on the Foundation's board.
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue,New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America,after the Carnegie Corporation,the foundation was ranked as the 39th largest U.S. foundation by total giving as of 2015. By the end of 2016,assets were tallied at $4.1 billion,with annual grants of $173 million. According to the OECD,the foundation provided US$103.8 million for development in 2019. The foundation has given more than $14 billion in current dollars.
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was an American businessman,financier,philanthropist,and conservationist. Rockefeller was the third son and fourth child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. As a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund,he provided venture capital for Intel,Apple Computer and many other successful start-ups. Rockefeller was known for his involvement in wilderness preservation,ecology and the protection of wildlife. His crusade was the establishing of a conservation ethic,and he was declared America's leading conservationist by Lady Bird Johnson.
David Rockefeller was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family,and family patriarch from 2004 until his death in 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller,and a grandson of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
Peter George Peterson was an American investment banker who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29,1972,to February 1,1973,under the Richard Nixon administration. Before serving as Secretary of Commerce,Peterson was also chairman and CEO of Bell &Howell from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984 he was chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. Later in 1985,he co-founded the private equity firm The Blackstone Group,and served as chairman. In the same year,Peterson became chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations,a position he held until his retirement in 2007 after which he was named chairman emeritus. In 2008,Peterson was ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans" with a net worth of $2.8 billion. He was also known as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation,which is dedicated to promoting fiscal austerity.
Environmental Defense Fund or EDF is a United States-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group. The group is known for its work on issues including global warming,ecosystem restoration,oceans,and human health,and advocates using sound science,economics and law to find environmental solutions that work. It is nonpartisan,and its work often advocates market-based solutions to environmental problems.
Myron Ebell is an American climate change denier who serves as the Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),an American libertarian advocacy group based in Washington,D.C. He is also chairman of the Cooler Heads Coalition,a politically conservative group formed in 1997 focused on "dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic,scientific,and risk analysis". In September 2016,Ebell was appointed by then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to lead his transition team for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank known for its rejection of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking.
Peter Richard Orszag is the CEO of Financial Advisory at Lazard.
Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr. is an American university president,corporate executive and former United States Deputy Secretary of State. In his multiple careers,he has been an African-American pioneer.
Richard (Dick) Munson is an American author and clean energy advocate. His latest book,"Tech to Table:25 Innovators Reimagining Food," was released by Island Press in September 2021. His previous book,Tesla:Inventor of the Modern, was published by W.W. Norton in May 2018. Author of five other books with topics that range from U.S. government energy policy to profiles of tycoon George Fabyan and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau,Munson was Director of Midwest Clean Energy for the Environmental Defense Fund,working primarily as a lobbyist for clean energy initiatives in Illinois and Ohio.
Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller,Sr. was an American aviator. He was the eldest son of Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899–1983) and Helen Gratz. He is best known for his environmental interests and role in the World Wildlife Fund.
Peter Lehner is an American lawyer and environmentalist. He leads a sustainable food and farming program at Earthjustice,developing strategies to reduce harmful effects of food production on climate,human health and the environment,and to promote a more ecologically sound agricultural system. He coauthored the book In Deep Water,about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill,with Bob Deans.
David Yarnold was the president and CEO of the National Audubon Society. He became the conservation organization's 10th president in September,2010.
Arthur P. Cooley was an American biology teacher,naturalist and expedition leader,and a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
Nathaniel O. "Nat" Keohane is an American environmental economist who serves as president at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES).
The European Defence Fund (EDF) is a component of the European Union's (EU) Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) which aims to coordinate and increase national investment in defence research and improve interoperability between national armed forces. It was proposed in 2016 by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and established in 2017. The fund has two stands;Research and Development &Acquisition. In July 2018,the European Commission announced that the EDF budget for 2021-2027 would be €13 billion. This sum was later revised by the European Commission as part of the new EU budget proposed on May 27,2020,as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,according to which the EDF will be allocated €8 billion over this budget period.
David Walter Kaiser was an American philanthropist and president of the Rockefeller Family Fund,known for his environmental activism. He was a grandson of David Rockefeller,the great grandson of American financer John D. Rockefeller Jr. and great-great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller.
