Brad Ack

Brad is an environmental innovator with 30 years of creative contributions towards a more sustainable world. His work has spanned from the tropical forests of Latin America, to the high deserts of the American southwest, the Pacific NW to work throughout the global ocean. Brad has worked for both government and NGOs at senior levels, in concert with the private sector, designing and implementing innovative conservation and sustainability initiatives. Brad currently serves as Executive Director and Chief Innovation Officer for Ocean Visions, a partnership of leading research and academic institutions and innovators, investors and practitioners of ocean restoration. Brad also leads the recently founded Ocean-Climate Alliance which centers attention on the ocean as a critical pathway to arrest climate disruption and in so doing, restore the ocean. Ocean Visions and the Alliance are working to build momentum for a new ocean-climate restoration and solutions agenda; to unlock new intellectual and financial investments in ocean-climate solutions; to source, develop and scale innovations that repair and restore critical components of the ocean-climate system. Previously Brad served as Senior Vice President, Oceans at WWF-US; Regional Director-Americas for the Marine Stewardship Council; and Executive Director of the Puget Sound Recovery Program in the State of Washington. He directed conservation programs for the Grand Canyon Trust and started his career in Latin America working on sustainable development around protected areas. Brad is passionate about recognizing the climate emergency we are in and building a more effective agenda to address and arrest dangerous climate disruption.

Not settling for being worse off tomorrow than we are today. Climate restoration versus 1.5 (or worse)! We can do it but if we don't get the goal right, we will never succeed.

We need to reverse the climate crisis and restore a safe climate, and the oceans are a huge player to do this. Why are we settling for a goal that will be worse in 2050 than we already are? Let's work to REVERSE the climate crisis, which means dramatically reducing CO2 concentrations in the air and ocean. CLEAN-UP the mess of the last 150 years.