Mark Tercek: An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection
Mark Tercek: Eine geniale Idee zur Verbesserung des Meeresschutzes
Mark Tercek leads a team committed to tackling the world's biggest environmental challenges -- protecting land and water, addressing climate change, providing food and water sustainably, and building healthy cities. Full bio
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inspiring, life-sustaining.
inspirierend und lebenswichtig.
quite aware, more or less screwed.
sind sie auch ziemlich aufgeschmissen.
have left corals bleached.
Korallenbleiche verursacht.
fish stocks to plummet.
den Fischbestand dezimiert.
are strategically protected,
kann sich das Ökosystem regenerieren.
ist aber nicht einfach.
protected areas isn't easy.
of figuring out where to protect.
international fishing route,
internationaler Fischfangrouten,
must take into account
müssen berücksichtigen,
of getting everyone on board.
alle ins Boot zu holen.
und Tourismus angewiesen.
often rely on fishing and tourism.
the local buy-in you need
dringend nötige lokale Unterstützung aus.
must also be enforced.
auch durchgesetzt werden.
must be deeply invested in the plan.
muss also dahinterstehen.
may want to protect their waters,
wollen ihre Gewässer schützen,
have very high debt
to prioritize conservation.
um Schutzzonen zu errichten,
to fund marine protection,
eine kleine Schutzzone hier,
marine-protected area here,
marine protected areas faster,
brauchen wir schneller mehr Schutzgebiete.
smart ocean conservation look like?
guter Meeresschutz aus?
staatliche Förderung und die Planung,
government support and careful planning
both local economies
und komplexe Ökosysteme berücksichtigt?
The Nature Conservancy, TNC,
an audacious idea
all diese Probleme gleichzeitig an.
all of these things in one fell swoop.
by island and coastal nations
ihre Schutzziele erreichen können.
to achieve their conservation goals.
zum Schutz der Riffe,
um vom niedrigen Zinssatz zu profitieren,
of a better interest rate,
den Dachboden isolieren.
to insulate your attic.
for entire coastal countries.
tun genau das für ganze Küstennationen.
to create marine protected areas.
für Meeresschutzgebiete.
von Staatsschulden komplizierter,
is more complicated than that,
40 million dollars now,
for ocean conservation.
für den Meeresschutz frei.
at least 30 percent of its ocean areas.
ihres Seegebiets zu schützen.
bring investors, public funders
die Verhandlung zwischen Investoren,
und öffentlichen Geldgebern,
development organizations
a portion of the nation's debt,
und längere Tilgungsfristen zu erzielen.
and longer repayment periods.
works with marine scientists,
einen detaillierten Schutzplan,
und Mensch zusammenbringt.
with the needs of the people.
conservation trust fund.
Treuhandfonds für den Meeresschutz ein.
fließt dort hinein
restructure goes into it
der Regierungsverpflichtung und dafür,
accountable for its commitments,
finance real protection efforts.
dem Meeresschutz dienen.
bei der Entwicklung eines Schutzplans.
conservation plan in the Seychelles.
of the government's debt.
wurden umstrukturiert.
to protect 30 percent of its marine areas.
30 % ihres Seegebiets zu schützen.
square kilometers of ocean.
Ozean zu schützen.
roughly the size of Germany.
is protecting its coral reefs,
ihre Korallenriffe.
to climate change.
bessere Chancen im Klimawandel.
it's strengthening its economy.
die Maßnahmen die Wirtschaft.
other governments take note.
to scale this up, dramatically.
und schnell auszuweiten.
where such a plan should be possible.
wo so ein Programm möglich wäre.
who can develop conservation plans,
die Schutzpläne entwickeln,
and structure the deals.
und Deals entwerfen.
in den nächsten 5 Jahren,
over the next five years,
square kilometers of ocean.
Quadratkilometer Ozean schützen.
the amount of protected areas
in den Weltmeeren
of the world's coral reefs to replenish
20 countries in the world
ist nicht nur in 20 Ländern möglich,
conversion would work.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mark Tercek - Environmental leaderMark Tercek leads a team committed to tackling the world's biggest environmental challenges -- protecting land and water, addressing climate change, providing food and water sustainably, and building healthy cities.
Why you should listen
Mark Tercek is CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the world's largest conservation organization, and author of the best-seller Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. After a 24-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he served as a managing director and Partner, Tercek became an "investment banker for nature." He brings deep business experience to his role at TNC, where he leads the organization's efforts to bring together diverse groups to find pragmatic, common-ground solutions to protect nature at scale. He is a champion of the idea of natural capital -- valuing nature for its own sake as well as for the services it provides for people, such as clean air and water, productive soils and a stable climate. Growing up as a city kid in Cleveland, Tercek was a late-bloomer to conservation. It was becoming a parent that sparked his passion for nature. "I want to be able to look my kids in the eye and tell them I did all I could to leave the world a better place," he says.
With support from the Audacious Project at TED, Tercek and his colleagues at TNC are launching a bold plan that could protect 4 million square kilometers of ocean over five years.
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