Bronson Griscom
Bronson Griscom
Founder and CEO - Ceiba Earth PBC
A Scientific Review of the Potential for Climate Finance to Transform Natural Forest Management
April 14, 2026 - 12:00 PM
This session will present a taxonomy of nine types of “climate-smart forestry” interventions and examines their global potential to mitigate climate change. It will discuss ways in which the emergence of a market value for carbon storage, both avoided emissions and enhanced removals, is likely to transform forestry. The emphasis will be on native tropical and temperate forests managed for roundwood timber production, where particularly extensive transformation of forestry business models can be anticipated.
Speaker Biography
Bronson Griscom – Founder and CEO, Ceiba Earth PBC
Bronson Griscom is founder and CEO of Ceiba Earth PBC, a public benefit company implementing climate-smart forestry financed by verified carbon removals. He spent the past six years at Conservation International as Vice President of Natural Climate Solutions, where he led a science team and launched the Natural Climate Solutions Acceleration Lab. Since joining Conservation International in 2019, Griscom has published more than 70 scientific papers while supporting implementation of innovative natural climate solutions projects, with an emphasis on climate-smart forestry.
Before joining Conservation International, Griscom was Director of Forest Carbon Science at The Nature Conservancy, where he led the research team that published a landmark 2017 study on natural climate solutions in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His work there linked improved design of climate-smart conservation and restoration strategies with enhanced monitoring, reporting and verification of climate outcomes. Earlier, he coordinated a successful effort at the U.S. Department of State, as an AAAS fellow, to make climate funding available for forest-climate initiatives through the Global Environment Facility. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Canaan Valley Institute in West Virginia studying restoration of high-elevation Appalachian watersheds. Griscom earned a doctorate in tropical forest ecology from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2003 and a Master of Science in plant genetics and conservation from New York University.