Can climate be bipartisan?

​Can climate be bipartisan? A conversation with Benji Backer and Eliza Nemser, hosted by Leap Forward Ventures.

​Join us for a practical conversation on the state of play and opportunities to make climate a bipartisan issue from two of the most knowledgeable people on the subject. Is it realistic, what are the common ground policies, and what is the strategy to create a winning coalition?

​About the speakers

​Benji Backer is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the American Conservation Coalition, the largest right-of-center environmental organization in the country and the most prominent conservative voice for climate solutions. His new book, The Conservative Environmentalist, is launching the week before.

Eliza Nemser is executive director of Climate Changemakers, a nonpartisan, community-based climate advocacy organization that she co-founded in 2020. A geoscientist turned climate strategist, organizer, and advocate, she pivoted from a career in earthquake hazard analysis to a focus on environmental health and justice, with an emphasis on climate politics, after the historic 2017 northern California wildfires.

​David Rusenko is ​the founder and Managing Partner at Leap Forward Ventures. He was previously the founder & CEO of Weebly, which was acquired by Square, where he went on to run global eCommerce. He is on the board of Building Decarb Coalition and an advisor to Climate Changemakers and has over a decade of experience investing in and advising startups. He has spoken extensively on product-market fit, and written about the climate tech landscape and idea space. He was born in France and grew up in Morocco.

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