Ensuring a world where elephants aren’t the next dinosaurs
Posted on: August 10, 2018
On August 12, we celebrate World Elephant Day to raise awareness on the plight of the world’s elephant population. This is an important day for me, as the Program Manager of the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) that started two years ago to combat...
The role of civil society in transforming environmental systems
Posted on: August 7, 2018
How did a chemical supplier in Mozambique learn that its safety instructions were putting women and children in danger? How could female clam harvesters in Tunisia come together to create the first women’s trade union and go onto change national law...
Leveraging PPPs in Mozambique to scale conservation and promote economic development
Posted on: July 30, 2018
Over the last few decades, Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) have been used to build transportation, energy, telecommunications, and other infrastructure throughout the world. Value chains were established to foster growth in these sectors and...
How can we feed the world and keep the planet healthy? We start by making smallholder farming more sustainable
Posted on: July 27, 2018
People are already consuming at a rate faster than the planet can replenish. Yet the world’s population is expected to grow from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050. This will considerably increase demand for energy, transport, buildings and food....
From decline to recovery: a rescue package for the ocean
Posted on: June 15, 2018
Our relationship with the ocean is at a crossroads. The decisions we take in the next five years will determine our future, our security, our very existence. They will make or break whole economies and dictate how and where we live. And there will...
From local to global action, saving the ocean requires re-thinking our relationship with single-use plastic
Posted on: June 8, 2018
You might care about the 100,000 marine mammals that die annually from plastic and you may be one of the 25 million viewers of the infamous straw-up-the-sea turtle nose video. Or it may simply be that you don’t want to eat and drink plastic, swim in...
Our food system is broken: we must repair it
Posted on: June 7, 2018
Let’s start with the good news. Humankind is living longer than ever before. Fewer of us are going to bed hungry. Improvements in diets and modern medicine have contributed to a 20-year increase in the average global life expectancy since 1960. The...
Science can help forge a new deal for nature
Posted on: May 21, 2018
Biodiversity is life, all life on earth. The air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink are all only possible as long as we have healthy biodiversity - rich species diversity. The remarkable diversity of flowers filling the house on...
Reversing the ocean’s accelerating decline
Posted on: May 18, 2018
The ocean has shaped my life, from my beginnings in the outer islands of Fiji to my appointment last year as the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy for the ocean. Like millions of others before me who have taken sustenance and succour from Neptune...
Innovation drives Seychelles blue economy approach
Posted on: March 21, 2018
Our oceans provide everything from food for billions around the world, to protecting communities and economies from storms—bringing it at least $1.5 trillion to the global economy every year. But they also face a barrage of threats, from marine...
