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Presenter at Nairobi meeting urges resource mobilization to address accelerating biodiversity loss
Summary
A presenter at a Nairobi gathering said biodiversity underpins food, water and climate resilience and urged mobilizing finance and domestic resources to mainstream biodiversity into decisions, warning that loss continues to outpace current efforts.
A presenter at a meeting in Nairobi said biodiversity is the foundation for food, clean water and climate resilience and urged meeting participants to prioritize financing and domestic measures to slow species and habitat loss.
The presenter stressed that biodiversity "gives us clean water" and "helps us fight climate change," and warned that loss is occurring faster than efforts to stop it. They said one major focus for participants in Nairobi should be resource mobilization — persuading financial institutions to consider biodiversity in their actions and finding ways domestically to raise funds. "So thanks to biodiversity, we have food," the presenter said.
The presenter framed the response as collective: ‘‘Working with nature rather than against nature helps all of us. Everybody has agency. Everybody can do something to help turn around the style of biodiversity.’’ They urged mainstreaming biodiversity into decisionmaking so that policy and finance decisions reflect ecosystem values.
No formal motions, votes or named agencies were recorded in the transcript excerpt. The transcript includes several transcription errors that were corrected in this article for clarity (for example, numeric and duplicated-word errors); quotes used verbatim are drawn directly from the speaker where indicated.
