Climate Solutions Bolsters its Leadership As It Gears up for 20th Year in Action

Seattle, WA:  Climate Solutions is deepening its bench of seasoned leadership with the addition of Duncan Marsh as Director of Programs.  Marsh comes to the organization after 11 years at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as its Director of International Climate Policy.  There he led international policy work on issues such as reducing emissions from forests and land use, adaptation and climate finance. Prior to joining TNC, he served on the U.S. Department of State’s climate change negotiating team and subsequently led the climate and energy program at the United Nations Foundation.

As a clean energy economy nonprofit founded in 1998, Climate Solutions has a long history of working in the region to create a thriving, equitable Northwest, powered by clean energy, and inspiring the transition to sustainable prosperity across the nation and beyond.   

“We’re thrilled to have Duncan join our team as we chart our strategic focus for the Pacific Northwest to become the first region in the country to be 100% clean,” stated Gregg Small, Executive Director of Climate Solutions.  “We need to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, and Duncan’s leadership will help get us to that vision even faster and more effectively.”

Climate Solutions also announced the addition of five new board members this year:

  • Nitin Baliga, currently the Director and Senior Vice President at the Institute for Systems Biology;
  • Annika Berman, currently a Senior Program Officer in the Foundation Strategy Office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
  • Jackie Dingfelder, a former state legislator, who most recently served as the Environmental and Planning Policy Director for Portland Mayor Charlie Hales from 2013-2016.
  • Phil Jones, who served on Washington’s Utilities and Transportation Commission from 2005-2017; and
  • Ross Macfarlane, a former partner at Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) who most recently managed Climate Solutions’ Business Partnership Program until spring of 2016. 

“We are adding great strength both in our team and on our board – for the ever-more urgent work of addressing the climate crisis and moving toward a 100% clean economy,” said Tim Miller, CEO of Enhabit and President of the Climate Solutions Board of Directors.

The organization will mark its 20th anniversary in 2018.  Founded in Olympia, WA the organization now has over 20 staff and offices in Oregon and Washington. 

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Climate Solutions is a Northwest-based clean energy economy nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate clean energy solutions to the climate crisis.

Author Bio

Kimberly Larson

Director of Communications and Engagement, Climate Solutions

Kimberly oversees the organization’s communications, engagement and technology team, focused on creating story-led communications to increase desire for the transition to clean energy and directing data-informed strategies for broader engagement on climate action.   

While at Climate Solutions, she has also helped direct communications for the Power Past Coal coalition to stop coal exports in the Pacific Northwest and many policy advocacy campaigns both at the ballot at with state legislatures.  

Prior to joining Climate Solutions, she was the Media Director for the Public Interest Network, a family of organizations that includes Environment America, and the Assistant Field Director for U.S. PIRG in Washington, D.C. She is 2008 Media, Communications, and Information Policy Fellow with the Rockwood Leadership Program.  Kimberly started her career with Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing after graduating from the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and a minor in Women's Studies.  

One story that inspires her:  the multi-year effort to get Washington State join the Clean Fuels Coast.  

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