Lauren Babuik

Lauren Babuik
Capacity and Partnerships Director
International Blue Carbon Institute, Conservation International
Lauren leads the capacity development strategy and partnerships for the International Blue Carbon Institute (IBCI) at Conservation International, where she focuses on how to strengthen capacity across policy, science and finance to conserve blue carbon ecosystems, as well as fostering partnerships to scale up blue carbon action globally. Lauren is based in Singapore, a key location that allows a focused effort on supporting Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, home to over one-third of the world’s mangroves and more than 40 percent of the world’s seagrass, and where coastal communities are highly vulnerable to increasingly frequent and severe storms and sea level rise.
Previously, as Head of the Singapore Climate, Energy and Nature Team for the British High Commission, she led the UK’s climate diplomacy and policy engagement, working closely with the Singapore Government, private sector and civil society to deliver, where she led policy engagement, capacity building and climate diplomacy efforts across several UK priority areas, including nature and biodiversity conservation, blue carbon, and sustainable finance and carbon markets. Previously, Lauren also led on South East Asia COP26 Partnerships and Communications in the High Commission. Before moving to Singapore, she was the Head of Climate Change and Pacific Island Affairs at the British High Commission in Fiji, where she led the UK's engagement with the Fijian COP23 Presidency - the first 'island COP' - as well as with the Governments of Tonga, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshall Islands. Prior, Lauren worked as an International Climate Negotiations Policy Advisor for the UK Government in London, where she led on international engagement within the UK's Delegation to the UNFCCC.
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