118. Protecting Our Planet with Cristián Samper
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
You probably heard last week was Climate Week and UNGA. But, what actually happened?
To cover it all, we get into the cornucopia of methane reduction announcements from countries across the world, a quick update on China, and a special focus this week on the announcement of the ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’, an announcement that saw 9 philanthropic organisations, including the Bezos Earth Fund, collectively commit $5 billion of funds to the 30x30 campaign.
We explore what this funding announcement means for the campaign, what effect this could have on government ambition and commitment to biodiversity as we gear up for COP26, and how this is a goal every single one of us can unite behind.
Joining us this week is Cristián Samper, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Cristián played a key role in convening the 9 organizations to launch the Protecting Our Planet Challenge. It marks the largest-ever philanthropic commitment to nature conservation and a significant step in addressing the triple crisis that threatens our planet – climate change, nature loss and economic insecurity.
Thanks for listening! Stick around ‘til the end for a live performance of 'Ocean' by special musical guest Palmaria!
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Cristián Samper
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outragean Optimism, I'm Tom Ravikarnak. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Cristiana Viyetes. |
| 0:17.2 | And I'm Paul Dickens. |
| 0:18.8 | This week we speak about what came out or didn't come out of the UN General Assembly |
| 0:22.9 | last week. |
| 0:24.1 | We speak to Christian Samper, the CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, about big commitments |
| 0:29.2 | for nature. |
| 0:30.2 | And we have music from Palmaria. |
| 0:32.3 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:36.2 | OK, guys, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there are good, good girls. |
| 0:49.9 | Thank you Paul, I appreciate that, it was helpful. |
| 0:53.2 | There are good UN General Assembly and there are not so good UN General Assembly and the |
| 0:57.7 | good ones are where the agendas move forward, commitments come forward and this one was like |
| 1:02.1 | nah, it was all right, there was a few good stuff but it wasn't really what it needed |
| 1:06.6 | to be. |
| 1:07.6 | What rubbish? |
| 1:08.6 | I mean, really? |
| 1:09.6 | What? |
| 1:10.6 | Really? |
| 1:11.6 | The theme was building resilience through hope to recover from COVID-19, President Biden |
| 1:16.6 | announced the US is going to increase international climate finance to $11.4 billion per year. |
| 1:23.0 | And he also put aside $100 million to stop hunger. |
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