A Streak of Failure For Restoring Biodiversity and Carbon-Neutrality
- letstalkaboutamarb
- Jan 17, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 24, 2022
For more than a decade, our leaders have decided to make a plan of action addressing the causes of biodiversity loss and found ways on how to restore it, and promoting a way to maintain a sustainable planet while doing so. These are the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, they were proposed in 2010/2011, and they are built based upon the following strategies:
"Strategic Goal A: Address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss by mainstreaming biodiversity across government and society
Strategic Goal B: Reduce the direct pressures on biodiversity and promote sustainable use
Strategic Goal C: To improve the status of biodiversity by safeguarding ecosystems, species and genetic diversity
Our nations and the people that habit it, that make up this tiny marble compromise on different plans of action, from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement, and many more are intending no more harm, they are aiming for leaping and solve the issues that have been predicted decades ago. We need to be part of the solution, yes, a cliché is what this phrase is, but not when it is not.
Strategic Goal E: Enhance implementation through participatory planning, knowledge management, and capacity building"
Below these "ambitious" targets, as the world has labeled them, 20 targets were placed to be met by 2020. Flooded by a rain of reports, articles, and tweets by young activists, the most prominent word amongst all of them is "fail". Jumping into the streak, this plan of action was ratified by 196 nations, yet a decade later, we have failed to meet a single one of these goals as a whole. Of course, many nations have made a significant impact on trying to achieve these goals to restore biodiversity and try to restore the carbon footprint left by majorly impacting nations, yet in a timeline of more than 10 years, the action taken to meet these goals has been minimal.
As many of us were waiting, the One Planet Summit convention in France took place about 6 days ago. As a background, the One Planet Summit is part of "an international dynamic" made up of 50 different countries, compromising themselves to fulfill the goals met at the summit to restore biodiversity in our planet and combat climate change. Taken directly from their page the One Planet Summit states, "One goal: accelerate the global transition to a more virtuous economy and to place climate and nature at the core of global recovery".
Our nations and the people that habit it, that make up this tiny marble compromise on different plans of action, from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement, and many more are intending no more harm, they are aiming for taking a leap and solve the issues that have been predicted decades ago. We need to be part of the solution, yes, a cliché is what this phrase is, but not when it is not.
Going back to my biology class last Thursday, my classmates and I sat in front of our screens as we got informed by our teacher of this exact problem, and he indeed followed the streak using the word "fail". We intensely contemplated the words read out loud by us, taking turns to read the paragraphs of the articles addressing this issue. During those 45 minutes of class, about 10 to 15 minutes were taken by a discussion following what we had just read, a discussion by 15-16 years old and by our teacher who wanted to inform us on our situation. It takes no more than 10 minutes to immerse yourself in an article and learn valuable things that make a swing to our perspective on how we see the world, and once again be a part of the change that we want to see.
I express my words to a screen with the use of tiny squares, and with the previous laps of 5 to 10 minutes I've taken to inform myself. I've learned that in every single thing I read I learn something, even if it is something I already knew. When I read something I now know that I can rotate my point of view on something that seemed already comprehendible and decoded in my mind to new ways of decoding it, just like a Rubik's cube. It takes laps of short periods of time to learn new things. This is a 3-minute read, maybe took a little longer to type, but I definitely rotated my point of view. I hope you did too!
Enjoy taking these laps:
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