Pedro Piris-Cabezas - Environmental Defense Fund
Biography
Pedro Piris-Cabezas is an economist and professional engineer working for Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a global environmental advocacy organisation representing more than three million members and supporters. Pedro works to establish lasting environmental policies that are scientifically sound, economically sensible, and effective in meeting the needs of diverse countries and communities, while promoting sustainable development and international cooperation to pave the road for a meaningful implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Pedro leads EDF’s Aviation Team, working as an international climate negotiator at the intersection of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as well as at the regional, national and subnational level. In the context of ICAO, Pedro has participated in the design of global market-based measures to tackle climate change since 2013. Pedro co-led the task group working on sustainability matters that led to the adoption of ICAO’s Sustainability Framework for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). In 2022, after eight years of research and analysis, Pedro authored EDF’s High-Integrity SAF Handbook to help stakeholders take smart, future-proof steps to advance high-integrity SAF and decarbonise aviation.
