WWF Annual Review 2022 - 18

THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY
The race to a nature-positive future is on
uring these years I have seen
nature loss move from being
perceived as an isolated moral
and ecological issue to an economic,
social and justice issue. Media
coverage has risen to almost the same
level as the climate. It landed on the
agendas of the G7, G20 and IMF.
And the European Union launched
the European Green Deal, the world's
most ambitious and comprehensive
package of instruments to protect
nature and drive sustainability.
Even regressive political leaders in
major economies undoubtedly delayed
but did not manage to fully derail the
climate and nature agendas.
We know that we are late both on climate
and nature, and we must accelerate in
our transitions. The race is on. It's time to
translate our new awareness into system
change. We know the problem and we
understand its gravity. We know that it
is linked to our unsustainable economic
model. And we know the solutions too:
protect more of the nature left on the
planet, and protect it better;
restore as much as we can of what has
been lost; and manage sustainably the
rest, including our productive landscapes,
through a deep transformation of our
production and consumption model.
Our civilization is at its most crucial
fork - one that should redefine the most
important of all our relationships, the
one with nature: our mother, our lifeline.
We should count on the fact that, for the
first time in the history of our civilization,
more and more of us are beginning to
understand that we cannot continue
to take nature for granted and think to
dominate the planet
and exploit its resources
wastefully and destructively
without consequences. There are
consequences already: loss of lives,
livelihoods and economic assets,
with things only getting worse unless
we course-correct our economic
development journey. And change
is possible. We have so many
local examples of how nature can
come back if given a chance. More
importantly, it is necessary. We owe
it to the amazing diversity of life that
makes this planet a 'living planet'. We
owe it to our children and generations
yet to come, the ones who today
have no say, no voice, who are not at
the decision table. This is what an
organization like WWF perhaps is all
about: giving a voice to nature and to
our future generations. >>
2019
2019
WWF PARTNERS
WITH NETFLIX
to launch the
extremely
successful
Our Planet series
narrated by Sir David
Attenborough.
WWF AND
HEADS OF STATE
LAUNCH THE
LEADERS' PLEDGE
FOR NATURE,
committing to reverse
nature loss by 2030;
later, the President of
the UN General Assembly
convenes the first-ever UN
Summit on Biodiversity.
WWF INTERNATIONAL 2022
2020
AS THE COVID-19
PANDEMIC RAGES,
a WWF-backed
report
highlights
the alarming rise
in zoonotic disease
outbreaks driven
by humanity's
broken relationship
with nature.
Main © Jean Tresfon / Netflix / Silverback Films, insets l to r: © Alex Voyer / Silverback/Netflix, © Richard Stonehouse
/ WWF-UK, © Andre Dib / WWF-Brazil, © Sarah Pietrkiewicz, © WWF / Elma Okic, © WWF UK

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