FCA Briefing on the Occasion of the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024
Words – Barbara Barkhausen, Graphics – Raj Suri
Australia is promoting investment in the environment and is hosting the first Global Nature Positive Summit at the International Convention Centre in Sydney on 8-10 October 2024.
Nature protection and repair is an immense job. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework sets a target of US$200 billion funding per year to spend on nature repair by 2030. The Global Nature Positive Summit aims to boost private sector investment to protect and repair the environment.
In Australia, the job is even bigger – the Great Barrier Reef suffers from a rise in ocean temperatures, precious habitat is lost due to ongoing logging and endangered and iconic species like the koala suffer.
We have invited two environmental experts to brief us on the environment in Australia who are also very critical of the government’s efforts, going as far as calling their campaigns and playing host of the Global Nature Positive Summit a case of ‘greenwashing’.
ABOUT
Christine Milne became the first woman to lead a political party in Tasmania in 1993 and went on to become the first woman to lead the Australian Greens in Australia’s national Parliament in 2012. She is currently an Ambassador for the Global Greens, Ambassador for the Australian Invasive Species Council and Ambassador for the 100% Renewable Energy Campaign of the World Future Council amongst other roles.
Bob Brown is an Australian former politician, medical doctor and environmentalist. He was a senator and the parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens before Christine Milne took over. Brown set up the Bob Brown Foundation to promote environmental awareness. The foundation keeps up a forest watch, monitoring native forest logging and burning mainly in Tasmania and organises peaceful protests in support of native forests.
