The Salazar Center is proud to announce that orge Daniel Taillant will be joining us in Denver, Colorado for the fifth-annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact.
Jorge Daniel Taillant is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Environment.
Daniel has over two decades of experience in the area of environmental justice, human rights protection, corporate accountability and climate change. He is currently the Executive Director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of the North American US, Canada and Mexico Agreement where he is working to guide the CEC’s actions on advancing regional environmental protection, environmental justice, indigenous engagement, ecosystems conservation, environmental quality and green growth.
The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) was established by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to implement the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, the environmental side accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Daniel has been published extensively on issues ranging from environmental protection to human rights, international finance, corporate accountability and glacier protection.
He has focused much of his recent advocacy on promoting fast climate mitigation and adaptation actions to reduce super climate pollutants (methane, black carbon, HFCs & O3) to slow warming and avoid breaching irreversible climate tipping points.