What we do
Cool Earth is about three things: Protecting endangered rainforest, building sustainable communities & engaging with you. Click through the index cards to find out more...
Protecting rainforests with Cool Earth Action - Keeping carbon where it belongs
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Meet us
The Cool Earth team is committed to keeping rainforests standing, keeping carbon where it belongs. You can meet our Founders and our renowned Advisory Board below. For further information or enquiries please go to Contact Us.
Matthew Owen, Director
As well as helping Frank and Johan set up the charity back in 2007, Matthew is responsible for our project teams and managing the charity in the UK and US.
Sophie Cowles, Communications
Sophie looks after Cool Earth's community relations, social networking and assists with all communications with our supporters, fundraisers and trusts.
Jemma Woodman, Content
Jemma takes care of Cool Earth's web content and media relations.
Ruth Allen, Coordinator
Ruth works across all departments and is responsible for co-ordinating the accounts of our sponsors.
Ben Gray, Corporate manager
Ben works with businesses to bring rainforest conservation into the workplace and transform their carbon responsibility by partnering with us.
Javier Bustamante, Partner in Peru
Javier Dril Bustamante is Cool Earth's leading indigenous partner and President of the Ashaninka Bioclimatic Association in Peru.
Read more about Javier
Stephen Brodbar, Education
Stephen works with teachers and schools, developing our education links and the Cool Earth Teacher Fellowship.
Whynot!
Cool Earth's marketing work is led by Andy Agar and Nick Whitehurst, co-directors of leading agency Whynot!
altcom
Altcom develop and manage our website and co-ordinate our on-line presence.
Our Founders
Cool Earth grew from a simple idea between two men who recognised that the most immediate way to protect rainforests was to engage the might of the individual.
Johan his one of the world's most successful business people who decided to put his money where his mouth is and protect a part of the Brazilian rainforest larger than the size of London. Social reformer Frank Field MP read about his endeavour and realised that with the world almost at tipping point on climate change, this was how we could redress the balance. If everyone had the opportunity to protect their own patch of rainforest then they could prevent vast amounts of CO2 emissions. The two minds came together and enlisted the help of economist and botanist Matthew Owen. Cool Earth was created and is challenging climate change.
Johan Eliasch is the UK Prime Minister's Special Representative on Deforestation and Clean Energy. Johan prepared The Eliasch Review: Climate Change, Financing Global Forests which is an independent report analysing international financing to reduce forest loss and its associated impacts on climate change.
Johan is also one of the world's most successful businessmen. He's Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Head, the sports goods manufacturer, a board member of the Centre for Social Justice, a member of the Advisory Boards of Brasilinvest, Societe du Louvre and the British Olympic Association, Chairman of Starr Underwriting Agents, Co-Chairman of Cool Earth, President of the Global Strategy Forum and a Patron of Stockholm University.
From the opposite side of politics, Frank Field has been the Labour MP for Birkenhead since 1979, as well as the Minister of State for Social Security and Chair of the Social Security Select Committee. He's a social innovator without equal who has been described as the most intelligent critic of this and previous governments' social policies.
Between them, Johan and Frank are trying to leapfrog the political log-jam on climate change and hand power to the people.
Advisory Board
Without our advisory board, Cool Earth would still just be a bright idea. Packed with luminaries from the worlds of business, ecology, politics and economics, our advisory board are helping to create a global movement to halt climate change.
- Dr John Chipman, Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies
- Sec.William S. Cohen, Former Secretary of Defence and Senator
- Mark Ellingham, Founder of Rough Guides
- Theodore Forstmann, Founding Partner Forstmann Little & Co.
- Dr. John Hemming, Explorer and former director of RGS
- Gustavo Kuerten, Leading Brazilian sport personality, three times French Open and former world #1 tennis player
- Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive of WPP
- Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review, former Head of the UK Government Economic Service and currently Professor of Economics at the LSE
