![]() ![]() We’d be tempted to blame the Bretton Woods economists for our troubles - for ignoring the totally obvious fact that nature is the foundation of all economies and, if abused, can decline into oblivion.īut back in 1944, those men couldn’t see what was coming just around the corner… These processes, while essential to life on Earth, are completely unacknowledged in our current global economic system. We all just took a breath that was freely given to us by nature, manufactured by oceanic plankton and trillions of trees that tirelessly absorb carbon dioxide from the air and release back oxygen via the process of photosynthesis.Īs Paulo Magalhães from Common Home of Humanity has described it, we have a global operating system for the planet, akin to software system that is owned by no one, but which regulates everything – from weather patterns and precipitation to atmospheric conditions and even ocean tides. If we are to truly succeed in preserving biodiversity as part of the global commons, we believe that we’ll need to follow nature’s architecture. While the architecture of the UN agreement is, of course, centered on nation-states, nature organizes things in a very different way. And part of that work involves rethinking how we organize collective action in the future. ![]() This is one major step toward a larger goal of protecting half of the planet. With a big diplomatic effort, the target was adopted at the end of last year as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The result was a paper published in 2019 called “A Global Deal for Nature.” which introduced in the scientific literature the “30x30 target”– protecting and conserving 30% of lands and seas by 2030. How much of our lands and oceans do we need to conserve in order to solve the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change? It was 2017, and no one had yet aligned on a central target for this convention, so my organization brought together some of the brightest minds to answer a vexing question: ![]() We knew the targets set in the previous US convention had not been sufficient – with now more than 2/3 of all land animals and 80% of freshwater populations wiped out since the 1970s. Well, after the success of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, many of us were looking forward towards the UN Biodiversity Convention, which would set the global agenda for preserving nature. I’ll explain how we developed this map, but you are probably wondering why create a new map in the first place? In a few minutes, I’m going to unveil a new map of the world, organized by bioregions, or as I like to describe them, “nature’s countries.” ![]() We’ve grown accustomed to seeing our world divided into countries and states, but there is another way to see, and better understand, the planet we call home. If Nature could draw a map of the world, what would it look like? It ends with a discussion of a second peer-reviewed paper, A “Global Safety Net” to reverse biodiversity loss and stabilize Earth’s climate, and an approach to provide basic conservation income to local communities safeguarding ecosystems through the implementation of an “Earth Fee.” It goes on to discuss how critical ecosystem services and the biodiversity that makes them possible are not incorporated into our modern global climate economic system and explains how the One Earth Bioregions framework was developed and how it could be used to facilitate nature-based collective action. It starts with the publication of a major peer-reviewed paper called A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets which introduced the 30x30 and 50% global conservation targets. The talk, entitled “If Nature Could Draw a Map of the World,” delves into the origins of One Earth’s innovative Bioregions framework. Our co-founder Karl Burkart was invited to present at TEDx Countdown in Portugal as part of a summit focusing on the governance of the global commons. ![]()
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