The response to a “lost decade” of inaction cannot be more of the same. This is a vision that inspires millions of people, and which polling shows is hugely popular across generational and political divides. We have abundant evidence that by making the four countries of the UK wilder, healthier, places to live, we will boost out economy, improve our shared well-being, tackle climate change and make our buildings, infrastructure, farming and fishing industries more resilient for the future. Whilst the Lost Decade report focuses on progress at a UK level, it is vital that actions to improve into the next decade come from the governments of the UK’s four countries, given that most policy relating to nature outside of England is devolved to governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It will need to demonstrate how signing up to a new set of global targets will make a difference this time, how governments will take the urgent action needed to change the fortunes of wildlife on the ground.īy putting our commitment to reviving nature into law (through establishing legally binding targets as is currently being proposed at Westminster), and backing this up with finance and the right policies which end environmentally damaging things such as vegetation burning on peatlands while incentivising good things like nature-friendly farming, we will unleash the energy of the whole of society – of rewilders, farmers, business and community leaders, gardeners, and school children – all of whom have their part to play in making a more nature-rich world.
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The Prime Minister is expected to repeat these promises at a forthcoming UN summit on biodiversity on 30 th September.īut if these claims of leadership are to be credible, the UK will need to show precisely how it plans to fill the gap between rhetoric and reality in its own backyard. The UK, with its presidency of COP 26 and the G7, is well placed to lead this global charge and it has expressed its ambition to be a global leader in the fight to save nature, and to implement nature-based solutions to climate change. This is a chance to do things very differently so we need our leaders to commit to act for nature.
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This adds fuel to the conditional optimism argument – that through our own practical experience we we know how to improve the natural environment provided that the right conditions are in place.Īnd this needs to the be the message that we send to world leaders who are are due to gather in 2021 to agree a new set of 10-year global targets for nature. GBO5 showed that some progress has been made and it will highlight many solutions and success stories across the world, that if scaled up and implemented over the next decade could indeed halt the loss of biodiversity and put nature on a path to recovery by 2030. We have to believe that it’s not too late.
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The obvious conclusion we make is that our current approach is woefully inadequate.īut the wrong response to the findings of the GBO5 and our Lost Decade report would be despair - this is is not a motivating emotion. There is neglect of basic monitoring and compliance, a failure to mainstream nature into other areas of public policy, and dwindling public resources for action. We conclude that governments across the UK fall particularly short in those targets which actually make a difference for species or habitats. For example, it is ludicrous that the UK Government reports that we are “meeting or exceeding” the target for protected areas given that only 5% (at best) of UK land is in a protected area in good condition. We have compared this assessment against our own analysis and find even this is a rose-tinted picture. According to the UK Government’s own assessment of performance, we will miss over two thirds of our commitments for nature made in 2010 (14 out of 20). To pre-empt this, we launched A Lost Decade for Nature, which shines a light on the UK’s limited contribution towards these global biodiversity targets. The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 (GBO5) was published today and revealed that the world has largely failed in its collective efforts to save nature over the last decade, and none of the targets (set under the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity - the CBD) have been fully met.
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Today must be the moment that we choose a different path and take steps to revive our world. This relentless loss of the beauty and wonder of our planet not only corrodes the soul, it compromises our own species’ prosperity.īut, as I wrote on Friday, grief needs to be matched with a determination to change, bolstered by the belief that we know what it takes to make things better. To me, that is an entirely rational response to the ongoing destruction to the natural world.
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It seems that David Attenborough’s programme Extinction: the facts moved many people to tears.