A new key biodiversity platform for cross sectoral collaboration
For its inaugural launch, World Biodiversity Summit will help define what world leaders and the private sector in biodiversity and climate action need to do in the medium and long term to achieve sustainable development and hinder further biodiversity loss, focusing on partnerships and investment mechanisms as levers of progress. World Biodiversity Summit is a platform for responding to accelerating biodiversity loss, by using the Paris Agreement as a framework to learn from, promoting relevant solutions, innovations, and leadership networks, strengthening nature restoration and conservation. Nature-based solutions will be highlighted, from specificecosystems to global possibilities.
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Edward Vaughan Dixon
Head of Responsible Investment - Real Assets, Aviva Investors
Ed is Head of Responsible Investment for Aviva Investors’ real assets platform and leads the firm’s ESG and sustainability strategy across £50bn of real estate, infrastructure and nature-based solutions. As direct investors with broad private markets capabilities Ed works across multiple asset classes including direct real estate, private credit, private equity and structured finance. Joining Aviva Investors in 2019, Ed oversaw strategy development for the UK’s largest long term assets fund, seeded at £1.5bn and focused on delivering decarbonisation and social value, and the climate transition real assets fund, seeded at £500m, which went on to deliver one of the largest nature-based solutions land transactions in UK history. Ed has 21 years’ industry experience through consulting, development and project management roles at Landsec, Mace Consulting and Marks and Spencer. He is a recent graduate of the corporate affairs academy at Oxford Said Business School and the executive education for sustainability leadership course at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Ed holds an Executive MBA with distinction from Bayes, one of the UK’s highest-ranking business schools. He is a keen adventurer, joining Bayes’ exploring society expeditions to the arctic circle and the summit of Mount Kenya.
