Meeting the Challenge of Increased Energy Demand: Opportunities for a “Clean” Energy Matrix?
Speakers
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Executive director, Chile Sustentable
Sara Larrain is Executive Director of the Sustainable Chile Program, a member of the Interamerican Network for Water and Life Defense, and a board member of the Internacional Forum on Globalization. Past roles include teaching at the Universidad Católica de Chile; co-founder of the Ecological Action Nacional Network; coordinator of the energy/atmosphere campaign of Greenpeace Latin America and the Energy Program of the Sustainable South Cone Program. She has participated in the design of public policies for the National Program for Energy Efficiency; the design and approval of a law establishing a quota of 10% of new renewable energies for 2024; the creation of the Environmental Ministry; Environmental Tribunals; the closure and restoration of mining sites and a law increasing to 20% in 2025 the mandatory quota of renewable energies. Today her team is working to guarantee the human right to water and the protection of glaciers in the Andes Mountains threatened by mining expansion.
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Tasso Azevedo is a social entrepreneur in the field of forests, sustainability and climate change and Technical Coordinator of the Climate Observatory. Tasso is the general coordinator of MapBiomas (land cover and land use change monitoring initiative) and the Brazilian Greenhouse Gas Estimation System (SEEG). Forest engineer graduated from ESALQ/USP, he was founder and general director of the Forest and Agricultural Management and Certification Institute (IMAFLORA), Secretary General of the National Forestry Commission and the first General Director of the Brazilian Forest Service. Tasso was one of the architects of the Amazon Fund and Co-Coordinator of the Plan to Prevent and Combat Deforestation in the Amazon (PPCDAM). He is a research associate at the Brazil Lab at Princeton University, an Ashoka Senior Fellow (2021), a Skoll Award Fellow (2022), a Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellow (2022) and a member of the board and committees of several organizations such as Imaflora, IEMA,
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Chairman of the Board, Fundación Avina
Sean McKaughan has over 20 years of experience in the field of sustainable development. He is Chairman of the Board of Fundación Avina, a Latin American philanthropic foundation contributing to sustainability in 18 countries of the region.
Prior to his current role as Chairman, Mr. McKaughan led Avina’s executive team for seven years as CEO. During his tenure at Avina, Mr. McKaughan has been an advocate for inclusive business, the Amazon, social innovation networks, and the promotion of sustainability in Latin America and throughout the world.
Mr. McKaughan holds master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He and his family have lived in Rio de Janeiro since 2001.
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Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Dipender Saluja is Managing Partner of the Technology Impact Fund, Capricorn Investment Grp, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. TIF is an early investor in iconic companies like Tesla, Redwood Materials, Planet, SpaceX, FORM & Helion. Prior to CIG, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global leader in electronic design, where he built & managed businesses that worked closely with electronics companies around the world. Prior to that he was at Data General (EMC), Honeywell, ROLM (IBM), & GFERC. He’s an electrical engineer by training & attended UND, Univ of Minnesota & Stanford. Dipender serves on the boards of AST, Electric Hydrogen, Halio, Joby (NYSE:JOBY), Navitas (NDAQ:NVTS), QuantumScape (NYSE:QS), Saildrone, SPAN & Summit Nanotech, International Solar Alliance, IonE, the Cyclotron Road Leadership Council, PRIME IAC, & commissioner of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP).
