saving nature to save ourselves
Harrison Ford speaking at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019:
“We need to protect what we have. We need to restore what we have lost. We need to defund the mechanisms, the perverse tax subsidies, the lending policies, and the institutional investments that fuel deforestation. It is understood that the protection and preservation of forest, can achieve at least 30% of the emission reduction we need to protect the planet.”
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Recognizing the bold commitment made by the Territorial Assembly of French territory Wallis et Futuna (led by President David Vergé) who passed a bill calling for France to conserve 100% of their maritime zone (265,000 square km) as a protected area for sustainable natural resource management. The move also called for the establishment of a 50-year moratorium on deep-sea mining. Most of the territory’s marine realm is formally classified as Ecologically and Biologically Significant under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), featuring a wide range of charismatic species.
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