Zac Goldsmith

Zac Goldsmith has been a committed environmentalist throughout his life – as editor of the Ecologist magazine, as a Member of Parliament, as an Environment Minister, and as a member of the UK House of Lords.

In 2019, Zac was appointed as a Minister attending Cabinet with responsibility for among other things climate and the environment. He remained a Minister until June 2023 when he resigned citing the Government’s increasing apathy in the face of the environmental and climate crisis.

Zac led the delivery of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration at COP26 where countries committed to end deforestation this decade and was extensively involved in securing global agreement at the Biodiversity COP in 2022 to protect 30% of the world’s land and sea by 2030.

As editor of the Ecologist Magazine, he was awarded the Global Green Award for ‘International Environmental Leadership’ by Mikhail Gorbachev. In 2022 Colombian President Ivan Duque awarded Zac the Order of Boyacá for his international environmental leadership. For the same reason Zac was also awarded the Order of the Etoile Équatoriale by Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba.

Zac Goldsmith is a Senior Fellow at the Bezos Earth Fund and Chief Envoy for Re:Wild.