Ilan Mandel

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Climate Restoration Ambassador

Ilan Mandel is an experienced professional and impact entrepreneur, committed to restoring the climate by 2050 and giving future generations a livable planet.

Ilan has been instrumental in building the climate restoration brand and movement:

In 2017 Mr. Mandel co-founded the Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) and served as its founding Executive Director until 2019. F4CR was the first organization ever to discuss & develop the field of Climate Restoration.

In 2021 he launched the Climate Restoration Network (CRN) to accelerate the implementation of climate restoration solutions for a safe & healthy climate by 2050. CRN is a project development company developing projects such as Sustainable Bamboo Cultivation in Togo and Agricultural Waste Management in Israel.

CRN is expanding the brand of Climate Restoration beyond just the atmosphere so that all climate action be branded as Climate Restoration.

In 2022 Ilan co-founded the Climate Restoration Safety & Governance Board (CRSGB) and served as its founding CEO until 2023. CRSGB is designed to be a trusted international review body ensuring that climate restoration projects are safe, ethical, and effective. CRSGB was announced at COP27.

In 2023 Ilan co-founded the Grandparents Fund for Climate Restoration (also known as the Climate Restoration Fund) to fund the critical Climate Restoration programs that will restore a historically safe climate for our children by 2050. Ilan is a Managing Director and Board Member.

Ilan brings 20+ years of diverse experience in management consulting, project management, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on optimizing and automating business processes. Mr. Mandel is an expert in designing large-scale integrated systems complex mission-driven systems and organizational structures for business automation and optimization to maximize impact and returns on investment.

Ilan served as a Captain of a patrol ship in the Israeli Navy and graduated from the Israeli Naval Academy first in his class as a Distinguished Cadet. He holds a degree in Computer Science and another in TV & Filmmaking.

Dear Crew Members of Spaceship Earth!

We are not just experiencing an era of change – we are witnessing a change of era.

Humanity is transitioning from a phase of relentless growth to one centered on sustainability.

While there are countless issues to address in our current systems—and we will address them—none of it will matter unless we solve the climate crisis and restore our ecosystems. Climate Restoration is the cornerstone of humanity’s course correction, starting with repairing the damage of the past. When we unite to restore the atmosphere and natural ecosystems, everything else will fall into place.

Since 2017, I have been fully dedicated to this journey of Climate Restoration. It’s not just a mission—it’s a commitment to my children, their children, and generations to come.

If you’re reading this, you likely understand the urgency of the problem and are contributing to the solution in your own way.

Let’s amplify our efforts through the Climate Restoration Alliance!

I invite you to:

Add your name to the Climate Restoration Resolution.
Make monthly contributions.
Consider becoming a Climate Restoration Ambassador.

These actions will enable you to spread the vision of Climate Restoration to your family, colleagues, community, and the organizations you’re part of.

Together, we can ensure a livable planet for future generations and create a foundation for humanity to thrive for millennia.

With warm regards,
Ilan Mandel
Climate Restoration Ambassador

What is Climate Restoration?

Published here with permission from the Foundation for Climate Restoration.

Everyone wants to restore a safe climate — one that humans have actually survived long-term. In this “pre-industrial” climate, which allowed us to develop agriculture and thriving civilizations, atmospheric CO2 never rose above 300 parts per million (ppm). Today, CO2 levels are 420 ppm. Yet now we know how to bring CO2 back down to pre-industrial levels—and could do so by 2050.

Ocean iron fertilization (OIF) appears to be the fastest, safest and most effective climate restoration solution although it was controversial for a time. OIF restores fisheries and other marine life while also reducing CO2 levels at the scale needed to restore the climate. It requires little or no public funding: instead, the process produces revenue and taxes from revived fisheries.

Restoring the climate requires removing and storing a trillion tons of legacy CO2 by 2050. Nature has stored 99 percent of all the CO2 on earth in the form of limestone, made of calcium and CO2 by shellfish and other marine organisms.1 Nearly half carbon dioxide by weight, limestone is an ideal, permanent storage system for this greenhouse gas.

Restoring our climate will require pulling a trillion tons of legacy carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2050. Farming seaweed, mainly fast-growing kelp and sargassum, can help achieve climate restoration.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that causes about 1/3 of today’s global warming. Using Enhanced Atmospheric Methane Oxidation (EAMO), we can accelerate these processes and reduce atmospheric methane to pre-industrial levels. This could rewind warming back to 2002 levels by 2050 and protect humanity from catastrophic levels of melting permafrost.

More and more people are realizing: Even if we reach net zero by 2050, or stay “well under” 2°C of warming, our survival will still be in serious doubt. That’s because there are already a trillion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. This “legacy” CO2, emitted over the last 200 years, will continue to wreak havoc in our world—whether or not we decrease future emissions to near-zero.

I have chosen to endorse the Rotary District 7150 Climate Restoration Resolution thereby joining with the Climate Restoration Alliance in making Climate Restoration be an “Idea Whose Time Has Come”

Individuals: Please fill the form below.

Organizations: Please follow these steps:

Create a copy of the Climate Restoration Resolution Template.
Edit and adapt it to your organization’s language and mission.
Sign it, scan it, and upload the file using this form, by uploading the signed resolution you are giving us permission to post your organization name, logo, and resolution on our website.

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Dear Crew Members of Spaceship Earth!

What is Climate Restoration?

I have chosen to endorse the Rotary District 7150 Climate Restoration Resolution thereby joining with the Climate Restoration Alliance in making Climate Restoration be an “Idea Whose Time Has Come”

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