114. 30x30: Nature Needs More with Rita El Zaghloul
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, only 15 percent of land and 7 percent of our ocean are protected. Nature needs more.
The science is very clear – to prevent a mass extinction crisis, support a growing global population, and address climate change, we must conserve at least 30% of the planet by 2030.
...So why now? The science is very, very clear - If we act now we can limit the disaster, and we could even reverse the trends of climate change in an equitable, just fashion. But how?
This week we’re joined by Rita El Zaghloul, Coordinator of the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature & People on behalf of Costa Rica. She is the driving force behind ambition at The HAC’s 30x30 campaign, slamming the pedal to the metal on their aim to agree to this plan at the COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October. The best part about it? It centers indigenous leadership and indigenous rights, while mobilizing financial resources both publicly and privately to ensure protected areas are properly managed, all the while protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030;
We know our situation is dire. But we also know it’s going to take everything (aka Nature) and everyone (aka People) to keep us below 1.5 degrees. The HAC’s 30x30 campaign is one of the roadmaps there.
Nature is counting on us. What future will we choose?
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Coordinator of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature & People on behalf of Costa Rica
High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature & People
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we're ready. |
| 0:02.0 | I think we should talk about the new 30-minute format. |
| 0:05.0 | Are you recording? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm recording. |
| 0:08.0 | Okay. |
| 0:09.0 | All right, friends, we have had some pretty mixed reviews |
| 0:11.0 | on social media. |
| 0:12.0 | I don't know the 30-minute thing is working or not. |
| 0:14.0 | Are we going to have to change it? |
| 0:15.0 | Okay, everyone who likes the shorter version, |
| 0:17.0 | could you please write in? |
| 0:18.0 | Because I feel like I'm losing ground here. |
| 0:21.0 | The people who don't like it are being very vocal. |
| 0:24.0 | Everybody who like the longer version do write in, |
| 0:26.0 | it's absolutely funny. |
| 0:27.0 | No, no, no. |
| 0:28.0 | No, no. |
| 0:29.0 | We've already heard that one. |
| 0:30.0 | If some of the, and also my kind of machine, |
| 0:32.0 | I've got one of these bot machines that writes that say, |
| 0:35.0 | oh, you know, I want longer one. |
| 0:36.0 | So kind of, you know, it's AI. |
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