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Biodiversity and Economy: What future for this duo in the post-2020 global framework?

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BIODEV 2030 and Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework – EU Support at event in Montreal aimed at defining francophone business contribution to the Kunming-Montreal GBF
Human well-being, which depends on nature and economic development, cannot be achieved at the expense of nature. At COP15 in Montreal, ORÉE (Organisation pour le Respect de l'Environnement par l'Entreprise), in partnership with our project and the BIODEV2030 project, Business for Nature, IFDD, Global Partnership for Business and Biodiversity, MAB France, the French Office for Biodiversity and WWF France organized a side-event on December the 13th.


At this event, experts demonstrated concretely how to help Francophone Parties (40) to integrate nature into their economic decisions, involving the private sector for people and nature. Francophonie is indeed present in several biodiversity hotspots, in more than 250 terrestrial ecoregions and 70 marine ecoregions.

50% of global GDP is at risk due to nature loss. Not having acted for nature will be much more costly for our socio-economic models of tomorrow than the cost of acting today.

The side event attended by 80 particpants, was moderated by Sylvie GILLET, Orée Director of Development and Biodiversity. She gave the floor to the following panelists:

  • Brune POIRSON, Director of Sustainable Development, ACCOR, former Secretary of State for Ecological Transition;
  • Quentin DUPETIT, Coordinator, BIODEV2030;
  • Claire VARRET, Head of the Biodiversity Mission at the Impact Department, EDF;
  • Cécile MARTIN PHIPPS, Director, French-speaking Institute for Sustainable Development;
  • Rachel KOLBE-SEMHOUN, Director of Sustainable Development, INVIVO;
  • Didier BABIN, Senior Strategic Scientific Advisor of the “Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework – EU Support”, Researcher at CIRAD, President of MAB France;
  • Cyrille BARNERIAS, Director of European and International Relations, French Office for Biodiversity;
  • Pierre-Yves POULIQUEN, Director of Plural Performance and Sustainable Development, VEOLIA;
  • Pierre CANNET, Director of Advocacy, WWF France;
  • Representatives of French-speaking negotiators (Canada, Gabon, Madagascar, Morocco, Nigeria, to be confirmed).

Brune Poirson, Chief Sustainability Officer at Accor & Former French Secretary of State for Environment, opened the event by pointed out that “If States agree on such a framework, COP15 could be for biodiversity what the Paris agreements were for climate.”

At the end of this event, strategic orientations supported by Francophone Parties were defined and proposed to the negotiators of the post-2020 global framework, around the following topics:

  • Commit to the preservation of biodiversity
  • Getting started and better orienting your actions
  • Materialize your impacts thanks to the SBTN approach
  • Deploy commitments and assess impact on all sites
  • Transforming professions and business models
  • Building coalitions
  • A French-speaking movement for biodiversity
  • Involving the countries of the Global South
  • What scope for target 15 of the agreement?

Didier Babin, Senior Strategic Scientific Advisor of the Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework – EU Support project, highlighted the importance of mainstreaming biodiversity in public policy The key is to embark ALL companies, SMEs and transnationals, towards an equitable, carbon-neutral AND nature-positive society. This requires courageous national policies that support and compel them in order to mainstream and scale-up action for a transformative socio-economic change.”

© Didier BABIN, Senior Strategic Scientific Advisor of the “Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework – EU Support”, Researcher at CIRAD, President of MAB France. / Photo: Daniel Murillo.

 

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