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Satoyama 3 Table of Contents Ahmed djoghlAf Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity ....................... 2 BAn Ki-moon Secretary-General, United Nations ................................................. 3 Achim Steiner ShA zuKAng Under-Secretary-General, United Nations and Executive Director, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic United Nations Environment Programme.......................................... 3 and Social Affairs .....................................................................20 SAtSuKi edA irinA BoKovA Minister of the Environment, Japan ................................................ 4 Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization .................................................................21 PAul KAgAme President of the Republic of Rwanda .............................................. 6 dr. joAn cloS Executive Director, UN-Habitat .....................................................22 Benigno S. Aquino iii President of the Philippines ......................................................... 7 Brice lAlonde Executive Coordinator, Secretariat for the United Nations feliPe cAlderón hinojoSA Conference on Sustainable Development ........................................24 Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos ................................... 9 luc gnAcAdjA joSé mAnuel BArroSo Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to President of the European Commission ..........................................10 Combat Desertification ..............................................................25 jAnuSz zAleSKi chriStiAnA figuereS Undersecretary of State, Chief Nature Conservator, Ministry of the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention Environment, Poland .................................................................11 on Climate Change ...................................................................26 norBert röttgen m S SwAminAthAn Federal Environment Minister, Germany ..........................................12 M S Swaminathan Research Foundation .........................................28 nAthAlie KoSciuSKo-morizet KiShore rAo Ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports Director, World Heritage Centre ....................................................33 et du Logement, France .............................................................13 AnAdA tiégA henK BleKer Secretary General, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands ..........................34 Minister for Agriculture and Foreign Trade, Netherlands ......................14 chArleS mcneill dAto Sri douglAS uggAh emBAS Senior Policy Advisor, Environment and Energy Group, United President of Seventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties .............15 Nations Development Programme .................................................35 Yoo Young-SooK Takashi KAwAmurA Minister of Environment, Republic of Korea .....................................17 Mayor of the City of Nagoya, Japan ...............................................36 jASen meSic´ luciAno ducci Minister of Culture, Republic of Croatia ..........................................18 Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil ............................................................38 monique BArBut hélène mAndroux CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility ............................19 Le Maire de la Ville de Montpellier, France .......................................39 Satoyama 3 1 Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity You cannot protect what you don’t know well-being. As a result, we continue to special efforts to reduce the pressures lead lives marked by unsustainable faced by coral reefs. consumption patterns that disregard the But governments also recognized biodiversity upon which our prosperity is the importance of public awareness in based. Because you cannot protect what ensuring that this vision comes to frui- you don’t know and you cannot value tion. At the initiative of Japan and building what you ignore, the worldwide celebra- on the tremendous success of the 2010 tion in 2010 of the International Year of International Year of Biodiversity, the UN Biodiversity has been an outstanding General Assembly declared 2011-2020 the success in addressing this gap. United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. At the historic Nagoya Biodiversity The Decade is not only a vehicle to Summit last October, world leaders took support the implementation of the 2011- the first political steps towards a life in 2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and harmony with nature. They agreed to the the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity he third edition of the Global 2011-2020 Strategic Plan for Biodiversity Targets: it is a worldwide celebration of Biodiversity Outlook 3 confirmed with its set of 20 headline targets, known everything we stand to lose by doing T that biodiversity continues to be as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. nothing and everything we stand to gain lost globally at rates so advanced that The Aichi Targets are organized under by changing our ways. many ecosystems, including coral reefs, five strategic goals: addressing the under- Over the course of the Decade, biodi- oceans and the Amazon, could enter a lying causes of biodiversity loss, reducing versity must be mainstreamed throughout self-perpetuating spiral of degradation the pressures on biodiversity, safeguard- government and all sectors of society and quickly become much less rich and ing biodiversity at all levels, enhancing through communication, education and diverse. the benefits provided by biodiversity, and awareness-raising, appropriate incentive Despite the warning signs of this providing for capacity-building. Among measures, and institutional change. By potentially irreversible change, far too the targets, governments have agreed to 2020, citizens and governments without many people across the world remain at least halve and, where feasible, bring exception should be firmly committed to unaware of the ongoing loss of life on close to zero the rate of loss of natural the preservation of our biological heritage. Earth. This is in large part because the habitats including forests; protect 17% Launch events for the Decade have majority of the public and policymakers of terrestrial and inland water areas and already taken place around the world: in are ignorant of the irreplaceable contribu- 10% of marine and coastal areas; restore Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Southeast tions that biodiversity makes to human at least 15% of degraded areas; and make Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, with a global launch set for the end of the year in Japan. Each of these events has helped to both build and reinforce a coalition of agencies, organizations and actors in support of the Decade. At the start of this historic event, United Nations Agencies, regional economic commissions, national governments, local authorities and cities and the general public are making the commitments to building a sustainable future. And indeed we cannot afford to let this opportunity slip by: we must work together more closely than ever during this critical period to build on the outcomes of Nagoya for our mutual benefit and the benefit of all life on Earth. 2 Satoyama 3 Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations Message for the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity onserving the planet’s species and land is polluted beyond all use? habitats is central to sustainable We have all heard of the web of life. We C development. Yet the global risk trapping ourselves in a web of death. decline in biodiversity is accelerating. The The United Nations Decade on Biodiversity main causes are human activities. is an opportunity to reverse this trend. The consequences are devastating: Under the theme “living in harmony with been seen as an endless reserve, instead failed crops, economic losses, less resil- nature”, the Decade has several objectives. of the limited and fragile resource we now ience in the face of disaster. As with most It aims to help us look at the underlying know it to be. emergencies, those hardest hit are the causes of biodiversity loss. It seeks to But it is not too late to protect biodiver- poor. And climate change is compounding ensure that biodiversity figures more promi- sity so that future generations can enjoy the problem. nently in decision-making by governments the goods and services it provides. There are also the opportunity costs: and industry. And it hopes to mobilize all The coming decade can be a turning what cures for disease… what other use- segments of society in achieving agreed point in how humanity values and man- ful discoveries, might we never know of international biodiversity targets. ages biodiversity. Together, we can build because a habitat is destroyed forever, or For too long, our natural capital has the foundations for a sustainable future. Achim Steiner, Under-Secretary-General, United Nations and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme Defining the future of life on Earth he UN Decade