CPI Swiss Board
Eric Hubbard serves as the Africa Regional Focal Point at the Urban Biodiversity Hub and co-leads the NATURA Network Africa Regional Team for the Global Urban NBS Roadmap.
Eric is based in Sierra Leone and South Africa.
Since 2019 Eric has served as Senior Advisor and Consultant to the Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, and the Freetown City Council. His support included serving as Technical Advisor for the design and implementation of the #FreetownTheTreeTown campaign to plant, grow, and digitally track one million urban trees in the city through a community tree-growing model co-designed to address urban climate risk and biodiversity loss and create green jobs.
The project aimed to structure a process to scale the #TreeTown model other cities in Africa so that they could adopt an ecosystem-based approach to equitable and sustainable locally-led adaptation tied to valuing green and blue natural capital for long-term financing of adaptation through the carbon market.