Over the last decade, carbon neutrality and net zero have become the focus across governments, industries, corporations, scientists, and environmentalists. However, over the last few years, the linkage between the carbon and biodiversity crisis has come into the limelight. Restoring biodiversity and ecosystems around the world has become a crucial part in tackling, not only the climate crisis but also in alleviating poverty. For this reason, various global initiatives have come into force to restore biodiversity globally. In fact, the 2020s has been designated as the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration.
One such project is The Nature Positive Initiative. The initiative aims to ‘Halt and Reverse Nature Loss by 2030 on a 2020 baseline, and achieve full recovery by 2050’. It will work alongside the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and overarching mission to halt and reverse nature loss. On this episode of The Think Wildlife Podcast, I speak to Marco Lambertini, who is the Convenor of The Nature Positive Initiative. We talk about the key concepts related to this initiative, potential challenges, and its importance!
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Episode 33: Creating a Nature Positive Future with Marco Lambertini