UNESCO

I was invited to be part of UNESCO’s “Living Together on Earth” campaign.

The warnings about the state of planet Earth and the urgency of preserving biodiversity have multiplied in recent years. Our Earth is burning, but we continue to look away. The erosion of biodiversity is an environmental emergency that requires a holistic response, implicating political decision-makers, economic leaders, the scientific community, opinion leaders, economists, citizen activists, philosophers, moralists, theologians, indigenous peoples, and above all, each and every one of us as citizens of the world. We each have a part to play.

The good news is that 2021 is an important year, putting biodiversity in the spotlight... Between the World Conservation Congress in Marseille in September, the COP 15 in Kunming in October, and the COP 26 on climate change in Glasgow in November, Biodiversity will be on the agenda for leaders around the world. It is in this context that Sparknews, in partnership with UNESCO and their Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, launched a large scale international movement, ‘Living Together on Earth’, officially announced during the UNESCO Forum on Biodiversity on March 24.

This movement is bringing together diverse actors from around the world committed to the preservation of the environment: international organizations (IPBES, UN Environment Programme, WWF...), social enterprises (Afforestt, BeeOdiversity, Nouveaux Voisins...), influencers (Cyril Dion, Francis Hallé, Jane Goodall, Gilles Boeuf…), artists (Jérémy Gobé, Giuseppe Penone, Olga Kisseleva...), and media outlets (Ushuaïa TV, Technikart…). This powerful international sound box will denounce environmental issues and, most importantly, shed light on those who are committed to preserving the living world and the solutions they propose. #ForNature and #PourLaNature