Dan Magrath

Providing expert input into the International Standards Organisations Net Zero Working group to establish a Net Zero Standard

Lead for Corporate responsibility for Gold Standard. Leading on all work from conceptualisation of responsibility constructs for corporates across climate and nature, to delivery of guidance, policy and working groups to support them to meet them and representing Gold Standard in critical working groups including ISO, SBTI scope 3 workshop, VCMI and more.

Key achievements

• Developed and maintained Gold Standards Contributing Fairly to Global Net Zero corporate climate mitigation framework
• Co-authoring Gold Standard BVCM guidance and delivering an expert exploratory group on BVCM made up of civil society experts, corporates, consultancies and other relevant stakeholders.
• Co-founded the Advanced Indirect Mitigation platform, bringing together companies, civil society and companies to develop critical guidance on how to credibly utilised market based interventions to support companies to meet their climate goals.
• Established Gold Standards Technical Policy hub, creating a centralised place and process for establishing policy priorities, developing policy positions and supporting advocacy campaigns.
• Authoring a document as part of a funded programme with multiple stakeholders on an attribution approach to landscape approaches.

Lead on sustainable business policy for the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office joint International Forest Unit. Owning sustainable business policy development and management as well as providing insights into government to government dialogue that concern my area.

Key achievements:

• Traders roadmap, launched at cop27, working with US Government, Tropical Forest Alliance and other UK Government programmes to bring the major agricultural commodity traders to agree, develop and commit to a sustainable pathway plan.
• Supporting the delivery of the Forest Agriculture and Commodity Trade dialogue, brining together 26 producer and consumer countries to agree on international agreements to support sustainable development of agricultural supply chains.

Supporting sustainable supply chains policy development and engagement with businesses.

Key achievements:

• UK Soy manifesto, bringing major UK retailers together to agree to set a pathway to 0 deforestation soy by 2025.
• Global Resource Initiative - providing secretariat function bringing together major UK agricultural based businesses together and supporting ministerial chairing to develop recommendations to the UK Government on how to galvanise sustainable supply chains in agricultural based sectors.
• Supporting the delivery of the Forest Agriculture and Commodity Trade dialogue, brining together 26 producer and consumer countries to agree on international agreements to support sustainable development of agricultural supply chains.

Just Transition Policy Officer and Project Manager for Clean growth, leading on UK green growth policy areas and providing project management for wider team.

Key Achievements:

• Lead the development of nature policy recommendations for the Prime Minister’s 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial revolution, supporting biodiversity halting, carbon emissions reduction and over 27000 jobs by 2030.
• Providing Project management to the UK Government Taskforce for Climate Related Financial Disclosures project.