Louis Blumberg

Louis Blumberg, director of the California Climate Change Program of the Nature Conservancy’s California Chapter, leads a multidisciplinary team developing a comprehensive suite of natural climate solutions, including strategies that will reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions from forested and other natural lands, and enhance the resilience of human and natural communities from the escalating impacts of climate change. Mr. Blumberg has been directly involved in developing climate and biodiversity policy in California since 2000, working with a variety of governmental and nongovernmental partners in developing the forest carbon protocols now in use in California’s carbon market and in establishing a public policy platform to promote climate resilience at the local, regional and state levels. He is a member of the Nature Conservancy’s international climate change team and the chair of the Conservancy’s Carbon Project Review Committee.

Mr. Blumberg joined the Nature Conservancy in 2004 as director of its new forest initiative and was appointed director of its California climate change program in 2007. Before that, he served as deputy director of external affairs for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, as assistant regional director of The Wilderness Society, and as a management analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He holds an M.A. in urban planning and environmental policy from the University of California–Los Angeles and a B.A. from the University of California–Santa Barbara.