Biodiversity loss

• These islands have lost species and unique habitats have shrunk to tiny remnants.
• More than 750 assessed species have declined by 19% on average since monitoring began in 1970.
• Today, out of over 10,000 species assessed, 16% (1,500, or one in six) are threatened with extinction.

Nature continues to decline

• Everyone depends on nature for the things it provides for free: so-called ecosystem services like healthy food, materials, clean air and water.
• There is cause to protect nature because it aligns with our values, from the moral responsibility we feel to future generations to the intrinsic worth we know nature has.
• The new report presents evidence on how and why nature is changing in the UK and in its four constituent countries.
• Added to these pressures on wildlife are invasive species, pollution and for some, such as birds of prey, persecution.
• Solving all of these problems will involve several actions that can be joined up to support each other.
• This is the scale at which conservationists need to operate in order to reverse nature’s decline.

Recovery by 2050?

• The 2023 state of nature report is timely given the recent adoption of global targets to recover nature.
• To halt and reverse biodiversity loss in the UK, efforts to conserve and restore species and habitats must ramp up.
• We have never had a better understanding of the state of nature and what is needed to fix it.

• The event will take place on Saturday, September 30th, 2023, from 10 AM – 2 PM, at 8 Oakvale Avenue, Toronto ON.
• The mini forest will be planted together with participation from The Pocket Community Association (PCA), local residents of The Pocket, broader City of Toronto residents, and local stakeholders.
• "Canadian Geographic is supporting the Mini Forest project because we have mapped the effect of climate change on Canadian forests over the past 100 years.
• Mini forests are communities of native trees and shrubs planted tightly together in a technique modelled after the Miyawaki Forest method.

• Over the next decade, industry professionals will face increasing exposure to both known and emerging risks, including physical climate risk, biodiversity loss, large-scale human migration, and changing regulatory frameworks.
• Advances in environmental technologies and new ideas for improving the effectiveness of government policies are likely to shift the landscape still further.
• The ICE Climate & Capital Conference will bring together industry leaders across the investment, business, and climate communities to discuss pertinent topics including strategies to align capital with climate commitments, approaches to engaging with corporate issuers on decarbonization strategies, and solutions to measure and manage climate risk and uncover opportunities.
• We offer innovative climate data and tools, social impact data, impact bond data, company and sovereign ESG data, regulatory solutions and sustainability indices.

• In partnership with Indigenous Peoples, local communities and Global South countries, the Coalition is committed to developing a new voluntary carbon market standard and platform to help end deforestation and biodiversity loss by driving finance directly to communities.
• Michael Jenkins, CEO of Forest Trends, said: "As a longtime champion of trustworthy and accessible carbon markets, we are excited about a process that centers Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
• Beto Borges, Director of the Forest Trends Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative, will be Chair of the Equitable Earth Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Advisory Group.
• "The voluntary carbon market can help address forest loss at its root, by providing essential finance to Indigenous Peoples and local communities to make conservation a viable development path.