COP28: NATURE, AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY SOLUTION - CR EDIT

HEADLINE: COP28: NATURE, AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY SOLUTION
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CAPTION: MASHUA ELVIS LEYIAN, ENVIRONMENTALIST AND CLIMATE ADVOCATE

“This is a Global Stocktake Conference. COP28. We are trying to take stock of where we are as a globe to ensure that we do not go beyond the 1.5 degrees centigrade according to the Paris Agreement of 2015.”

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SOT: KING CHARLES

“As we work towards a zero carbon future, we must work equally towards being Nature Positive”

SOT: MARIA SUZANNA GONZALEZ, MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT, COLOMBIA

“So we need to phase out fossil fuels, restore nature and strengthen nature”

SOT: PRESIDENT MACRON OF FRANCE

“Nature is the best technology available to capture and store CO2”

CAPTION: PROFESSOR TOM CROWTHER, ECOLOGIST ETH-ZURICH

“The conversation has begun. Now it is about leaning into that knowledge and building this environmental movement to reflect the things that we do care about. It’s not just about how much carbon do we capture, it’s about how can we promote biodiversity and human well-being and if we achieve those things we will get incredible carbon capture as a by product”

Campaigners are focussed on keeping this around nature momentum going

CAPTION: SOY SHARON CHEROP, YOUTH CLIMATE ACTIVIST

“I think how we keep this conversation moving forward away from the COP is to take those networks that we have struck in this space and bring it home to our youth-led and ground grass-root actions because there's a whole life that happens outside of the COP. So I think it's a continuous cycle that the COP is just a spot on the long linear process.”

With the announcement that next year’s Biodiversity COP will be held in Columbia,

consensus is growing that the Climate and Biodiversity COPs should be aligned.

“We can't have a conversation about biodiversity on its own and have climate on its own. It has to be combined.”

In 2025 COP30 will be held in Brazil

CAPTION: MANUEL PULGAR-VIDAL, GLOBAL LEADER, CLIMATE AND ENERGY, WWF

“I have a dream. Let's try to organize in Brazil at least a back-to-back COP. So COP of Biodiversity and COP of Climate.”

CAPTION: PETER ELLIS, NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

“I'm very excited about the Brazil COP. And I cannot wait to see what they do with the COP presidency enforcing in particular the way we get nature into the conversation.”