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| Founded | 1995 |
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| Founder | Teresa Heinz |
| Focus | Biodiversity Protection, Managing Phosphorus in Agricultural Soils to Improve Chesapeake Bay Water Quality, Supporting the Development of National Indicators and Monitoring Systems, Wildlife Conservation Program, and Climate Change Information for Local Decision-Making |
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Key people | Mark Gorenberg, Chair of the Board of Trustees; Teresa Heinz, Vice Chair of Board of Trustees; and Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair |
| Website | www.heinzctr.org |
The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment was a nonpartisan nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center brought together representatives of business, government, the scientific community and the environment community to collaborate on the development of environmental policy and science-based solutions to environmental challenges to society. The Heinz Center is best known as the creator of the State of the Nation's Ecosystems reports, which have become seminal references for U.S. policy makers and environmental managers[1] on the conditions of and trends in U.S. ecosystems and habitats and the goods and services they provide. The Center was founded in 1995, in tribute to U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III[2] of Pennsylvania after his untimely death in 1991,[3] and closed in 2013.
- ^ Lazaroff, Cat. "State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Data Missing". Environment News Service. Retrieved 26 September 2002.
- ^ Congressional Record, V. 144, Pt. 14, p. 20720, September 9, 1998 to September 21, 1998.
- ^ Congressional Record, V. 147, Pt 4, p. 5564, March 27, 2001 to April 23, 2001.