Transcript Presentation - Regional Policy Briefings

Perspectives through a Climate Change
Lens
A SHIFT: From Vulnerability to
Value…
IUCN Oceania
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IUCN
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Commissions
• 1.067 Members
worldwide from
over 160
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countries
• 10.000+ voluntary
experts in 6
thematic groups:
• States,
Government
agencies, NGO
• Over 60 regional
and national
committees
Secretariat
• 1.000 full time
staff worldwide
• 350 temporary
staff, consultants
and interns
• HQ in Gland,
Switzerland
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around the world
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Core Oceania Programmes
species
Emerging
Programmes
• Forests
water
• Disaster / Risk Reduction
• Climate Change
•Law
marine
•Economics
•Green Economy
energy
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IUCN in Oceania
IUCN has been active in the
region for many years.
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27 Australian members
9 New Zealand
14 Pacific Islands
State Members
(Region)
• Nauru, Fiji, Solomons,
Tonga, Samoa,
Vanuatu
• Australia, New Zealand,
USA, France, China, Japan,
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Global Context
Multi – Crisis
• Financial ‐ 18 to 51 million unemployed over 2007
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Energy
Food
Climate Change
Biodiversity
Climate Change?
Biodiversity?
UNEP – Green Economy Initiative
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Changing
circumstances….
• Shift from threats … to consequences
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CBD & Biodiversity
Climate Change
Food security…
Post Rio +20
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WWF’s LIVING PLANET INDEX –
Running on an overdraft facility, but for how long?
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WWF Planetary Report
• 1.3 planet earths to meet current consumption
• 2 planet earths by 2030
• 2.2 planet earths if we live the average Hong
Kong lifestyle
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Global “Deficits / Losses”
• Biodiversity… species, ecosystems
• Climate Change…
• Nitrogen…
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A new narrative
• Shift from Vulnerability to Value
• Climate change lens - 10m people in 30m sq Km
of healthy ocean
• Per capita lens is incomplete (like GDP)
• “More then Tuna….” Healthy ocean habitats
• Support efforts for conservation and management
of natural resources
• Large and small MPAs
• Pacific Island Region – global value
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Reframing – Pacific
Islands region as a global
good..
Climate lens on Pacific Islands…
• REDD & forests
• Some basis for using adaptation funds to
“incentivise” communities of management of forest
AND non forest ecosystems
• Millions of Sq kms of relatively healthy ocean
habitats
Massive Pacific ecosystems – surplus can
mitigate certain global deficits / losses
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Value of healthy Pacific Ocean
ecosystems to PICTs?
Ecosystem
TEV
Direct use
value
Indirect &
non-use
Comment
values
From coastal protection,
Coral Reef
3.78 billion
2.31 billion
1.46 billion
amenities, biodiversity;
fisheries in constant
Mangroves
3.86 billion
From coastal protection,
2.29 billion
Whales
(Tonga)
1m / year /
whale
1.57 billion
amenities, biodiversity;
fisheries in current
prices
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A whale contributes $1m in its lifetime to
Tongan economy….
(Dept of Conservation NZ)
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Nature provides all of our clean air, food and water…
and shelter, energy, heating, soil and medicines…
and protection from natural disasters…
and recreation, inspiration, diversity and beauty.
Approx 25% of Product in a European Chemist
comes from Rainforests…
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Cater to a Changing
Market …
• “Climate Aware”
• A conscious consumer…
• The conscious traveler….
CONSCIOUS.TRAVEL ©
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The Conscious Consumer Report, 2009, BBMG
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Ana Pollock – Desticorp UK
Concluding Thoughts…
• Recognition of the VALUE of nature’s goods and the
essential contribution to livelihoods and climate change
mitigation and adaptation may redirect investment in
ACP economies towards sustainable outcomes
• The tropical zone (most ACP countries) maybe the
lifeline for a world that has overstepped nature’s
boundaries…
• Innovation is essential – we cannot repeat the last 20
years
• Shift in Emphasis and Narrative From
VULNERABILITY to VALUE
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