Jad Daley
Trust for Public Land
Washington,
DC
USA
Biographical Sketch: Jad Daley is the director of The Trust for Public Land’s Climate Conservation Program and holds the endowed position of Martha Wyckoff Fellow. Daley is a graduate of Peddie School, Brown University, and Vermont Law School, where he earned a master of studies in environmental law summa cum laude.
Daley coordinates The Trust for Public Land’s development of climate-smart cities through green infrastructure and strategic “resilient landscape” conservation targeted to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This work integrates GIS planning, partnership facilitation, state and federal policy, and conservation transactions. Exemplary efforts include the Waterfront Resilience Pilot in New York City to strategically site and then develop new green infrastructure—from restored wetlands to waterfront parks—to help protect the city from sea level rise and future storms. Daley also leads the organization’s development of forest carbon projects for voluntary and compliance carbon markets.
In addition to facilitating these on-the-ground climate efforts, Daley guides The Trust for Public Land’s climate policy work, including roles as founding co-chair of the Forest-Climate Working Group—the leading coalition of forest industry, private landowner, carbon, and conservation interests promoting U.S. forests as a tool for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Daley has also been newly nominated to serve as a member of the public-private national council established by the Obama administration to guide the work of the federal Landscape Conservation Cooperatives.
Daley has a long history in strategic conservation. From 2000 to 2008, he led the 22-state Eastern Forest Partnership, a joint federal advocacy effort among groups from Mississippi to Maine. In these roles he helped to author two programs enacted within the 2008 Farm Bill, the Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program and Community Wood Energy Program, leading lobbying efforts to enact the Highlands Conservation Act.
Daley is widely published and quoted on landscape conservation and climate change issues. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Boston Globe, among other outlets. He has been quoted frequently in Greenwire, Environment and Energy Daily, ClimateWire, and other trade press. Daley has also spoken on climate change and landscape conservation in numerous public forums, including the Society for Conservation Biology Annual Conference (2012), ESRI Federal Users Conference (2013), and the national Land Trust Rally (2013).
Papers:
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Translating partnerships for climate adaptation into national level policy change