OECD Agenda 2020- Greengrowth & Sustainable Development Forum
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Welcome to my new article, which based on the Global-Online Conference on the Zoom.us. Due to the Pandemic situation the member of the representers had to find the best way to assembled for this meeting to discuss the most important facts of the Global Economy restorment. The launch has opened and moderated Rodolfo Lacy the director of the OECD. The open speech was kept by Angel Gurria the Secretarie General of OECD
The focus based on the Securing natural capital: Resilience, risk management and Covid-19.
Which means that, through 3 days they were going to debate the future steps, how to urge to draw more attention into the Sustainable issues to avoid more pandemics on the Earth.
24 November - 1st Day
Professionals and members of the economy and goverment area discussed the possibility, how to save our Climate and Enviroment. To protect the biodiversity and make the Nature for the number one task to save, because it is essential and everything bond to it also it is actually, "invisible, silent and mobile"
Professor Partha Dasgupta from the University of Cambridge was talking about the distruction of the nature and biodiversity loss factually, also he was talking about the transformation to make balance again and nature have rights for to respect, because it depends from our behaviour, how to treat with them and the others. The balance, which means to not just in the economy also in the society had to restore many things to be good for ourselves and reduce the differences between people with empower the gender equality and help the education and innovations to and count with the women society. Transforming economy system is not going to happen without private sectors obligations to invest money for sustainbility, but it is not enough.
Bérangére Abba from France (Secretary of State for Biodiversity) talked about trading problems during the covid 19 pandemia. We need to syncornize the economy with the society for the interest of demanding and supplying in an optimal way. We need to make a paradigm shifting in economy basicly to save, not harm the biodiversity and this fact is extremley valid under the pandemic period too. In order to manage the acts we need syncronized steps in different sectors also with other countries in the economy to be affectively . For example in Costa Rica Climate & Clean Air Coalition with 71 partner countries from all over the world working globaly together on theese. Moreover, in France recomend the optimalistic trade form through the Global Biodiversity Score: a tool to establish and measure corporate and financial commitments for biodiversity, how to change the economy and industy to protect the nature. More information: https://www.mission-economie-biodiversite.com/english
Also from China, Liu Ning (Chief Negotiator -Ministry of Ecology and Enviroment) listed the steps, how to be more green in the future, but think of the employers and the whole nation also through the education and technical development and politics need to provide the financial investment but for theese steps we need to cleared that to protect natural capital is now the investion in the future and need laws and policies not just taxes version to take it serious by the public and private sectors and stakeholder and China is ready to joint the global community.
Madam Luise O. Fresco made the statement that the ecology desctruction and biodiversity loss connected to the pandemias in 100% and we need to say that, if we don't want to more pandemics we have to give back the land for the animals and plants in the tropical regions to keep away the humans from unknown deseases. The areas, where due to the growing populations reduce the wild life to grow more plants for food. Sustainable agriculture, land and soil protection saving are important parts which means that with new methods need to restore the biodiversity, protect soil, and water during the rapidly growing global population. This is a critical point of challenge. Because " the non- overweight and healthy population have bigger chance to survive the pandemics"
'This is a long terms social contract to live our life as sustainable when we are consuming.
On the second part new panelist members with Alon Zask moderated from Izrael discussed Natural capital- Land using and the method to help the agriculture (livestock farming) and food productions, energy, materials that not threaten the biodiversity and do it sustainable. The new technologies and more digital tools using could be make it easier to supply the global consuming, but to be oridinary they need many datas and frame works to be see to be routine task and also financial protection. Urgently need technological innovation to provide global health food supplying such as biocrops, biomass, and tools like data managing and further technical development in growing food. Julian Hardelin from France Agriculture Ministry talked about the policies structures which are simple and clear and the reports and measurments need to be express the situation before to set new laws and transform the sectores need lot of practise to act national and international level.
Anne Laugaridere (IPBES ) said lot of people realized that in covid 19 and biodiversity loss and and nature capital destruction have connection beside Social Values. And the youth movements and demonstration and network system could affect the goverments to make faster the action taking, but for this step need Practices, Reports, Financial Protections and Investmenent. From the NGO Part- WWF was represented themself too to be draw attention into biodiversity loss and deforestrations.
25 November- 2nd Day
Were represented about the ocean based Natural Capital and Financiation system. The panelist members were various territories from Australia to USA, and from different sectors such as fish industry, water-wind energy, turism ect. to discuss the ocean topic aquaculture and marine oceanic susteinable management. renevable energy, windturbines. Ocean protection seperated into many parts the pollution, overfishing, land distruction by flooding, sea level rising climate change consequences. Russel Reichelt urged the restoration of ancient connaction between the ocean and people. More than 165.000 years the human using resources from the oceans and seas and they thought they are inexhaustable. Celine Frank from the European comission detailed the EU Green Deal steps. Maritime Spatial Planning is one of them which is relatively new it brings together multiple users of the ocean - including energy, industry, government, conservation and recreation - to make informed and coordinated decisions about how to use marine resources sustainably. MSP generally uses maps to create a more comprehensive picture of a marine area- identifying where and how an ocean area is being used and what natural resources and habitat exist. It is similar to land-use planning, but for marine waters. In a turism Helena Ray De Assis (Program Officer- UN) spoke about because of the Covid 19 the turism sector had seriously damages and the recovery plan will be more substainable to protect the sea's natural capital by 2030.
The second part was about the Finance topic, which had intresting points why we are in great lagging behind due too many of aspects. Katia Karousakis (Biodiversity program Leader ) slide was excellent report from the OECD to understand why is more difficult to protect biodiversity in substainable way in a finance area. Not just we don't spend enough money for the Natural Capital to save the biodiversity.
THE GOVERNMENTS ARE SPENDING 5X TIMES MORE TO HARMFUL ACTIVITIES FOR THE BIODIVERSITY. Which is unacceptable and ununderstandable, if we want to survive. This connected to the next topic how to measure the natural capital if we think of to be in sustainable. Nature need to be more valued than money and this is essential and need to transform every workplaces and sectors to reduce biodiversity loss.
26 November -3rd Day
On the last day was about the Measuring the Natural Capital, that to follow, how to build policies to to get in to the laws and practices. A key challenge for measuring natural capital is that a suite of indicators on the condition and extent of ecosystems is required (e.g. forest loss, number of threatened species), as opposed to climate change where the metrics are more easily measured. The recent development in the accounting for ecosystems, or natural capital, as part of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) and the opportunities for, and outstanding barriers to, its widespread adoption were discussed.
The second part of the session moderated Sandy Sheard from the UK and it is based on Adressing climate and biodiversity loss challenges: Nature Based Solutions refers to the sustainable management and use of nature for tackling socio-environmental challenges. The challenges include issues such as climate change, water security, water pollution, food security, human health, and disaster risk management.
The international community is increasingly recognising the potential of nature-based solutions to improve society's resilience to the impacts of climate change, while maximising synergies between ecosystem stewardship and human well-being. For example, investing in the restoration of forests in upper catchment areas not only protects communities downstream from the risk of flooding; it can simultaneously increase carbon sequestration, while protecting species habitat.
However, despite their recognised role and potential, the application of nature-based solutions continues to be limited in number and scale. Nature-based solutions can help to improve the resilience of our society to the impact of climate change, such as more intense rainfall, wildfires or heat waves, while simultaneously protecting biodiversity as well as mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This session discussed technical, institutional, and financial barriers to the adoption of nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation, such as a perception of being "emerging technologies". Options on how to improve the coherence between disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation policies, especially in relation to infrastructure planning, were also discussed. We heard for examples from Canada , Portugalia and Peru how to see it in practise.
In my oppinion of this first Open Online - OECD Conference in 2020 was good and intresting and from the point of communicational territory I think it was very infromative. Which is now very important to develope the crisis communication in all parts. We have to summarize the solutions, frame works, results not just the problems and disasters to show this is not a losing battle yet and with global cooperations we have chance to built better future for us. As Professor Dasgupta said that we have to respect the nature again by to respect ourselves and reduce the differences to help the education and help the women equality too which are the key points in some cases. Well educated and informed people especially women, know that conscious family planning, smaller family is better for the planet. Also for their health to protect the biodversity and climate to have healthier future on the Earth.
Source: OECD Conference (SD Forum 2020) -Official Videos