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Join host, Sean Lees, as he speaks with leading voices on efforts to combat nature loss in Asia-Pacific. What can be done to ensure economic growth does not result in ecosystem collapse and species extinction?
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Episode 21 - Business and Biodiversity: Southeast Asia in Transition (opens the original)
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We speak to Syed Mohazri, IPBES Coordinating Author, and former Chair of the Malaysia Platform for Business and Biodiversity. Peering through a Southeast Asian lens, Syed offers his insights into this year’s IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment, the landmark global scientific study evaluating how corporate operations depend on and impact natural ecosystems. He offers frank, sometimes controversial but always constructive views on a range of Business and Biodiversity issues including on nat
Episode 20 - Business & Biodiversity: Asia Pacific's Role in Addressing Nature Loss (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Nature Pledge Podcast, we sit down with Professor Ryo Kohsaka of the University of Tokyo, a lead coordinating author of IPBES's first-ever global assessment on business and biodiversity. Together, we unpack what the report means for Asia-Pacific. The IPBES Assessment's message is simple: every business, in every sector, depends on and impacts biodiversity — and the knowledge to act already exists. The harder question is why action still lags in Asia Pacific? Professor Kohs
Episode 19 - Cambodia's Biodiversity Priorities: A Study of Contrasts (opens the original)
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Over the past two decades, Cambodia’s economic transition to lower-middle-income status has come at a steep environmental cost—including the loss of a massive share of its humid primary forests. In this two-part episode, we explore the contrasting priorities of Cambodia’s policy makers and Indigenous Peoples. Where do goals overlap and where are they still misaligned? Ken Bopreang , Director of Biodiversity at Cambodia's Ministry of Environment, outlines the state's vision including a massive re
Episode 18 - The Right to a Healthy Environment: Accelerating the KM Global Biodiversity Framework (opens the original)
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In 2022, the UN General Assembly recognized the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (RHE), the same year the world agreed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. In this episode, we speak to Astrid Puentes Riaño , UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and discuss the nexus of human rights and nature loss. Has the RHE accelerated action on nature loss, and if so, how? Importantly, how has her work been receive
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