Gavin Edwards

Executive Director , Nature Positive Initiative Secretariat
Nature Positive Initiative

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.

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