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Betty Cremmins is a “climate intrapreneur” who has dedicated her career to engaging diverse stakeholders to accelerate innovative environmental and humanitarian solutions. At the World Economic Forum she leads engagement across the Platform for Accelerating Nature-Based Solutions, including 1t.org (Trillion Trees Platform) which serves a global movement to conserve, restore and grow a trillion trees over the coming decade and the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCSA) which convenes stakeholders to identify opportunities and barriers to investment into carbon credits in new and existing markets to scale up financing for natural climate solutions. For the past decade she helped CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) build the world’s largest environmental data disclosure platform to transition companies and their supply chains to a climate-resilient, water-secure and deforestation-free economy. With a background in greenhouse gas footprinting, green building and environmental policy, Betty has worked on climate change mitigation projects around the world, from the US Gulf Coast to sub-Saharan Africa to Antarctica. She holds a MPA in Environmental Science & Policy from Columbia University and a BA from New York University. Betty is an Advisory Board Member of the world’s first Climate Museum, Advisory Council Member of the American Resilience Project, and Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project.