Jeunesse Park created Food & Trees for Africa in 1990, the only national social enterprise in South Africa, to address climate change, greening and food security. FTFA has now distributed over 3.6 million trees to the disadvantaged communities across South Africa, has facilitated the development of thousands of natural food gardens, employs over 25 people, esablished the Carbon Standard, now the Carbon Protocol, and initiated the first South African carbon calculator, which can be found on www.trees.co.za.  In 1991 Jeunesse brought Bill Mollison, founder of Permaculture, to South Africa to introduce Permaculture as a viable development tool for food safety and security and sustainable land use management. For the next 16 years she organised Permaculture Design Courses that trained hundreds of people and many facilitators.  In 1999 Jeunesse was acknowledged for her efforts in environmental conservation when she won the Mail and Guardian Green Trust Award for Established Environmentalists of South Africa. She has since won the Mail and Guardian Chairman’s Award for Excellence, the Eskom Chairman’s Award, the International Chevron Conservation Award, the Nelson Mandela Forestry Award, the United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Award for Climate Change and the Caroline French Morton Arbor Foundation Award. In 2008 Jeunesse joined Global Carbon Exchange, an international one stop shop for climate change and energy work and education that assists companies to measure their carbon footprint, do carbon and energy audits and address their environmental impact through practical projects, as well through education and awareness initiatives for employees and the public.  Jeunesse was invited onto the international advisory board of Ogilvyearth in 2009. She lives and works with an understanding that change begins with one.

Harmke Immink (Promethium - Senior Carbon advisor)
 
Harmke is a Chemical Engineer with an M.Sc in Environmental Science from Chalmers Technical University in Sweden. Her areas of expertise include CDM project development, CDM project readiness reviews prior to Validation or Verification, carbon footprint accounting and GHG baseline evaluations, environmental life cycle assessments, environmental audits and the Sustainable Development area.

 Anthony Dane (Incite Sustainability)

Ant is an environmental economist with a BEcon from Rhodes University. He is currently completing a masters in applied economics at UCT, with a focus on climate change and market-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Ant has been responsible for analysing and scoring company responses for the South African Carbon Disclosure Project since 2009. This process assesses the commitment and experience the JSE Top 100 companies with regards to carbon disclosure. More recently the process has also focussed on assessing companies' performance in terms of actions taken to manage impacts on, and from, climate change.