Dean Rosina Bierbaum moderated the Clinton Global Initiative’s first session on Protecting Tropical Forests at the organization’s annual meeting in New York on September 26. Panelists included: Jane Goodall, whose work on chimps and conservation is legendary; Governor Eduardo Braga from Brazil who is protecting huge tracts of rainforest; Franz Tattenbach who runs an NGO in Costa Rica (FUNDECOR) that is paying famers to protect trees; and Stu Eizenstat who negotiated the Kyoto Protocol on behalf of the US in 1997.

You can see the videos of the 2 sessions at

http://video.clintonglobalinitiative.org/health_cast/player_cgi2007_nointro.cfm?id=3499

http://video.clintonglobalinitiative.org/health_cast/player_cgi2007_nointro.cfm?id=3604.