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Manuel Pulgar Vidal

Leader of Climate and Energy at WWF International

Title: Caring for Nature, We Care for our Climate

Manuel brings his passion and lifetime experience working for the ecology and the economy of the planet to the New Deal for Nature. As the Minister of the Environment to Peru and host to the COP 20 - the Climate Change Conference of Parties that constructed the Road to Paris, Manuel was a seminal force of nature in ensuring at COP 21 in Paris we left with the Paris Climate Agreement.

He shares that we need to respect nature laws and bend the curve of our exploitative, destructive human actions toward nature. We need to realize that we are part of nature.. and that by defining clear targets for protecting nature, for protecting biodiversity; and orienting our behavior rightly as stewards to nature; then we can ensure a healthy biosphere, a healthy economy, and a healthy human society, as well.

By caring for nature, we care for our climate. 30% of the carbon budget is tied to forests, lands, and food. Thus, if we reduce deforestation, adopt more plant-based diets, and regenerate degraded lands; we are already dealing with 30% of the carbon challenge. We also know that our health is tied to the health of the planet.  It is time for a New Deal with Nature.

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Oceans matter, but the deep blue is under siege by humanity.  We’ve trashed the oceans with nearly 2.4 million tons of plastics. We’ve exploited 80% of the world’s marine wildlife. 

Thankfully, this year the oceans have been featured across global media and protecting the oceans has become a major global priority. National governments are stepping up around the world to support the blue economy. Many countries are investing in expanding marine protected areas.

Ocean's Day at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, Catherine Cunningham interviews Jim Leape and Marco Lambertini, past and present director generals of WWF International; Marc Benioff, Chair of Salesforce and Founder of the Benioff Ocean Institute @ the UC Santa Barbara; and Prince Albert II of Monoco, a lifetime ocean ambassador. 

Let's hear what they had to say. Happy Ocean's Day.

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M Sanjayan; CEO, Conservation International

We Need a New Deal with Nature

We’ve already noted the unconscionable loss of species abundance @ 60% among animals in the last 40-50 years (WWF Living Index, 2019). Nearly 20% of our tropical forest ecosystems have also been degraded or destroyed in a similar time frame. Why do we need a New Deal with Nature? Nature is the Real Deal. For one, forest ecosystems alone can drawdown 10 gigatons of CO2/ year– nearly 25% of the 40 gigatons of CO2/year we need to take out of the atmosphere to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Imagine! “But sadly now, if current tropical forest emissions from deforestation were a country, it would be behind China.” M. Sanjayan So, what do we do? We conserve our healthy forests, rejuvenate degraded forests, and reforest denuded lands to recover 30% of that lost carbon. We also innovate new ways companies can offset their carbon footprints by sponsoring conservation projects, while inspiring greater private resources- currently less than the marketing budget of a block-buster film, to go into ocean and land conservation.

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Visionary leaders share their insights in Davos 2019 on how to play our chess game with natura and climate forward in order that everyone wins, and together we thrive as a global society, living in harmony with one another and nature.

Christiana Figueres (former executive secretary to the UNFCCC who was a seminal figure in advancing the Paris Climate Agreement) contends that we are in a race with climate change and nature has picked up the pace. We now have to double-down on our carbon emissions and across all industries- all sectors of society, and, all walks of life- exponentially decarbonizing our economies. Achim Steiner (Director of UNDP) stresses that we need to become more intelligent now re-designing a system- a new deal with nature that not only feeds and supports the 7.7 billion people on the planet, but that supports the life system of our planet. Brune Poirson (Secretary State- Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Energy) takes Achim’s vision into a strategic discussion with me, asserting that we need to create a new society- one founded on new nature-based values with new ways of doing business- whose first consideration is what is best for nature and people.

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The Growth Story of the 21st Century: Investing in our Sustainable Future

Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor of Economics LSE and President of the Royal Economic Society, advises that if we invest in sustainable infrastructure, clean energy, and smart transport systems now; we will catalyze a flood of investment and awaken a stream of innovation that inevitably will transform our world.

Good economic decisions and healthy trade discussions considers all forms of capital that shape our wellbeing now and the wellbeing of those who come after us in future generations. These forms of capital include; physical capital— infrastructure, roads, buildings, technology; human capital- health and education; social capital— equity, good governance, safety, security, trust, community; and natural capital—biodiversity, healthy habitats, clean air and water, vibrant oceans. It is vitally important now that we encourage healthy, relevant discourse on social-human-natural capital among foreign trade ministers and finance ministers; so that they think long term, consider future generations, and account for the health of planet and people in framing national and international policies.

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In exclusive interviews with Catherine Cunningham from Natural Intelligence Media; world leaders in business, government, and civil society share their insights on the state of the planet, on measures taken to address these global challenges, and on future vision of a world committed to peace, justice, and prosperity for all.

Thank you for listening in to our Natural Intelligence Worldwide Podcast, where we’re committed to spotlighting intuitive vision, nature-inspired knowledge, and native wisdom in our world.

You can find us at https: //naturalintelligence.com/worldwide  to listen to our growing portfolio of podcasts with world leaders on nature, sustainability, climate, and tech for good.

Johan Rockström, Potsdam Institute for Climate Action Research (PIK) speaks about the pressure that unsustainable human development puts on planetary equilibrium, challenging 12,000 years of interglacial stability, known as the Holocene. Only exponential action and an earth-system’s approach to course correcting our global carbon footprint will avert a climate crisis, and avoid reaching an irreversible tipping point toward an undesirable and potentially catastrophic state for humanity and life on earth. In his interview, Johan explains the carbon law and its scalability and how individuals, communities, companies and governments can and ought to take immediate action. 

Now that global change is accelerating faster than scientists have predicted. “The accelerated speed, scale, and scope of earth system’s change should give us good cause to be nervous…” Johan Rockström

Thank you for listening in to our Natural Intelligence Worldwide Podcast, where we’re committed to spotlighting intuitive vision, nature-inspired knowledge, and native wisdom in our world.

You can find us at https: //naturalintelligence.com/worldwide  to listen to our growing portfolio of podcasts with world leaders on nature, sustainability, climate, and tech for good.