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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Gavin Edwards
Director, Global Nature Positive Initiative
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Gavin Edwards is a conservation and environment advocate with three decades of experience in pursuing and helping secure break-through solutions to the twin biodiversity and climate crises.
He has contributed to important conservation successes including conserving the Great Bear Rainforest working alongside indigenous peoples, securing an Amazon soy moratorium, launching a global renewable energy pathway, developing a solar PV feed-in tariff, greening the book publishing industry, legislating a Hong Kong ivory sales ban, securing new marine protected areas designations and the agreement of the ambitious Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to halt and reverse nature loss.
He coordinates NPI’s policy, advocacy, high-level engagement, business, finance and civil society engagement. He has recently helped develop and launch the Nature Positive Initiative – a collaboration of 27 leading organizations who will drive alignment around the definition, integrity and use of the term ‘nature positive’ and support broader efforts to deliver nature-positive outcomes. Mr Edwards holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA.) from Kellogg-HKUST - the worlds top-rated EMBA programme.
Gavin Edwards is a conservation and environment advocate with three decades of experience in pursuing and helping secure break-through solutions to the twin biodiversity and climate crises.
He has contributed to important conservation successes including conserving the Great Bear Rainforest working alongside indigenous peoples, an Amazon soy moratorium, a Hong Kong ivory sales ban and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
He is the Executive Director of the Nature Positive Initiative Secretariat – a collaboration of 27 leading organizations who will drive alignment around the definition, integrity and use of the term ‘nature positive’. Mr Edwards holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST.
