Nature sustains life. However, we are facing unprecedented nature loss and accelerating climate change that is impacting human lives as well as wildlife and wild places. Saving nature and the biodiversity of our planet will help us mitigate and adapt to climate change, improve our quality of life and help species and habitats thrive.
The next decade is crucial. Policies are being put in place, commitments made by countries and companies, solutions developed, investment made. However, these are not at scale, the quality and integrity of solutions are in doubt, commitments are yet to be fulfilled and investment is not reaching where it can most add value.
We have a small window of opportunity to stop the destruction of nature and curb temperature rise to 1.5C – to save our planet and its biodiversity, including the human population.
Dragonfly advises investors, NGOs and companies to design and implement strategies that protect nature, mitigate climate change and benefit communities on the frontlines.
The focus is on system-level action – by advising on strategy and projects and building alliances and coalitions to co-create solutions to:
Dragonfly works closely with clients to:
Dragonfly Advisory is founded by Kavita Prakash-Mani, a conservation and sustainability expert with 25 years of experience working with civil society, companies, coalitions and consultancy across geographies from Singapore to the US.
Kavita is on numerous boards and councils including being a Board Member of the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets (IC-VCM) and TARA Climate, as well as a member of the Unilever Sustainability Council.
Kavita has cross sector experience. She has held leadership roles at NGOs most recently as CEO, Mandai Nature, and previously as Global Conservation Director at WWF International (World Wide Fund for Nature) and Associate at World Resources Institute. She has focused on sustainable agriculture as Global Head, Food Security Agenda at Syngenta International and set up the multi-stakeholder coalition, Grow Asia (a World Economic Forum initiative focused on smallholder farmers). She also catalyzed and founded the Southeast Asia Climate and Nature-Based Solutions (SCeNE) Coalition with eight NGOs. She has advised numerous companies on their sustainability strategies as Executive Director, SustainAbility in London.