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Gincana 7: Biodiversity Is Our Life Biodiversity is life Biodiversity is our life Gincana 7 Printed in Canada ISBN 92-9225-203-8 © 2010 Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity All rights reserved Design: Em Dash Design 100% Recycled Supporting responsible use of forest resources Cert no. SGS-COC-003939 www.fsc.org Printed on Rolland Enviro100 Print, which contains 100% post-consumer fi bre, is Environmental ©1996 Forest Stewardship Council Choice, Processed Chlorine Free, and manufactured in Canada by Cascades using biogas energy. Gincana 7 The International Year of Biodiversity Table of Contents AHMED DJOGHLAF Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) .......................... 2 BAN KI-MOON United Nations Secretary-General .............................................................. 3 ACHIM STEINER United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ............................................................... 4 ALI ABDUSSALAM TREKI President of the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly ................. 5 HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS TAKAMADO Island ecosystem & sea level rise, French Polynesia, Bora Bora Honorary President, BirdLife International .................................................... 6 (Photo courtesy of Truchet/UNEP) YUKIO HATOYAMA LUC GNACADJA Prime Minister of Japan .......................................................................... 7 Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MAHA Desertifi cation (UNCCD) ........................................................................ 21 CHAKRI SIRINDHORN FRANCESCO BANDARIN Kingdom of Thailand .............................................................................. 8 Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre ............................................ 22 STEPHEN HARPER JULIA MARTON-LEFÈVRE Prime Minister of Canada ........................................................................ 9 Director General, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ........ 23 LEE MYUNG-BAK TOM ENDERS President of the Republic of Korea ............................................................. 9 President and CEO, Airbus ..................................................................... 24 NORBERT RÖTTGEN ANADA TIÉGA Federal Environment Minister, Germany ..................................................... 12 Secretary General, Ramsar Convention ..................................................... 25 JOSÉ MANUEL BARROSO LIZ DOWDESWELL President, European Commission. ............................................................ 13 Former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme .......... 26 ERIK SOLHEIM ELIZABETH MARUMA MREMA Minister of Environment and International Development, Norway ..................... 14 Executive Secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of HUW IRRANCA-DAVIES Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) Secretariat .................................... 27 Minister for Marine and Natural Environment at the Department for GERALD DICK Environment and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom ........................................... 15 Executive Director, World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) ................ 28 MAH BOW TAN DOUGLAS AND KRISTINE TOMPKINS ............................. 29 National Development Minister, Republic of Singapore .................................. 16 RANDAL KEYNES TROELS LUND POULSEN The Charles Darwin Trust ....................................................................... 30 Minister for the Environment, Denmark ..................................................... 17 CARLOS BETO RICHA HELEN CLARK Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil ........................................................................ 32 Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and Chair of the United Nations Development Group .................................................. 18 GÉRALD TREMBLAY Mayor of Montreal, Canada .................................................................... 33 MONIQUE BARBUT Chief Executive Offi cer and Chairman, Global Environment Facility (GEF) ............ 19 TAKASHI KAWAMURA Mayor of Nagoya, Japan ........................................................................ 34 YVO DE BOER Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework 2010: INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)................................................... 20 BIODIVERSITY EVENTS......................................................... 35 The International Year of Biodiversity 1 Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Renewing our Efforts to Preserve Biodiversity he ght to stop biodiversity loss Moreover, the human costs of biodiver- is at a critical moment. Species sity loss will be exacerbated by climate T are currently going extinct at up change, which will potentially compound to 1,000 times the natural background the rate of loss. rate. Sixty per cent of examined ecosys- For this reason the United Nations tem services worldwide have been de- declared 2010 the International Year of graded. We should be alarmed because Biodiversity. The year 2010 offers an op- humans are not detached from the con- portunity to renew our efforts and create a sequences of this loss. Biodiversity is hu- global alliance of all stakeholders to pro- manity’s source for countless irreplaceable tect life on Earth. goods and services, including food, lum- In May, Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 ber, medicine, crop pollination and air and will provide an initial assessment of prog- water puri cation. ress so far and remaining challenges in This is why in 2002 the Parties to the achieving the 2010 Target. In September, and the 2020 and 2050 biodiversity tar- Convention on Biological Diversity es- the 65th session of the UN General gets. Overall, the International Year of tablished the 2010 Biodiversity Target, a Assembly will, for the rst time, convene Biodiversity promises to be a true water- commitment to signi cantly slow biodi- a high-level segment on biodiversity with shed period in our struggle to preserve versity loss worldwide by 2010. The inter- the participation of heads of State and biodiversity. national community quickly rallied around government. And in October in Nagoya, We are delighted to present the latest the 2010 Target and incorporated it into Japan, at the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit, issue of Gincana, where heads of State the Millennium Development Goals. the Convention’s tenth Conference of and important international organizations Nevertheless, preliminary indications the Parties, a broad range of stakehold- have contributed their thoughts and hopes are that the target will not be met. The im- ers — including cities and local authorities, for the International Year of Biodiversity. pacts of this will be primarily felt by the youth, indigenous communities, national Each of their pieces, in their own eloquent poor, as natural capital constitutes 26% of governments and the private sector — will way, help demonstrate why biodiversity is the total wealth of low-income countries. help nalize our 2011-2020 strategic plan life, biodiversity is our life. Urban biodiversity, Central Park South, New York, USA (Photo courtesy of Ed Yourdon/ ickr.com) Harvest, South Africa (Photo courtesy of Gliberry/UNEP) 2 Gincana 7 Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General Message for the International Year of Biodiversity (2010) ver the past half-century, human to unemployment and malnutrition. activities have caused an un- The failure to protect biodiversity O precedented decline in biological should be a wake-up call. Business as diversity. Species are going extinct a thou- usual is not an option. We need a new sand times faster than the natural rate — a biodiversity vision. We must manage our loss now being further compounded by forests sustainably so they can store car- climate change. A wide variety of environ- bon, protect watersheds and provide re- mental goods and services that we take sources and income. We must conserve for granted are under threat, with profound coral reefs so they can continue to pro- and damaging consequences for ecosys- tect coasts from storms and support live- new strategic plan for implementing the tems, economies and livelihoods. lihoods for hundreds of millions of people. United Nations Convention on Biological In 2002, world leaders agreed to sub- We must ensure the long-term viability of Diversity. stantially reduce the rate of biodiver- our seas and oceans. In this International Year, we must sity loss by 2010. The 2010 Biodiversity To raise awareness of the impend- counter the perception that people are Target was subsequently integrated in- ing crisis and to spur the world to act, disconnected from our natural environ- to the Millennium Development Goals. It the United Nations General Assembly ment. We must increase understanding will not be met. proclaimed 2010 the International Year of the implications of losing biodiver- Tropical forests continue be felled, de- of Biodiversity. In September 2010, the sity. In 2010, I call on every country and stroying valuable endemic species and General Assembly will hold a special each citizen of our planet to engage in disrupting local, regional and global cli- high-level meeting on the subject. It will a global alliance to protect life on Earth. mates. Climate change and ocean acidi - give the international community an op- We must generate a greater
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