Mark Tercek: An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection
Mark Tercek: Una ingeniosa propuesta para ampliar la protección marina
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.
sustentadores de la vida.
quite aware, more or less screwed.
más o menos jodidos.
actividades humanas y el cambio climático
have left corals bleached.
las poblaciones cayeran en picado.
fish stocks to plummet.
de protección, obviamente.
están estratégicamente protegidas,
are strategically protected,
protected areas isn't easy.
áreas marinas protegidas no es fácil.
of figuring out where to protect.
de averiguar qué proteger.
international fishing route,
con esa ruta de pesca internacional,
must take into account
deben tener en cuenta
of getting everyone on board.
often rely on fishing and tourism.
dependen de la pesca y el turismo.
the local buy-in you need
lo que que necesitas
must also be enforced.
las áreas marinas protegidas.
must be deeply invested in the plan.
profundamente involucrado en el plan.
la conservación requiere dinero.
may want to protect their waters,
pueden querer proteger sus aguas,
have very high debt
to prioritize conservation.
de priorizar la conservación.
to fund marine protection,
para financiar la protección marina,
área marina protegida,
marine-protected area here,
marine protected areas faster,
protegidas más rápido,
smart ocean conservation look like?
la conservación de los océanos?
government support and careful planning
gobierno y una planificación cuidadosa
both local economies
an audacious idea
all of these things in one fell swoop.
by island and coastal nations
de las islas y las naciones costeras
to achieve their conservation goals.
sus objetivos de conservación.
y la voluntad política
manglares y pesquerías.
of a better interest rate,
una mejor tasa de interés,
to insulate your attic.
para aislar su ático.
conservación en todos los países costeros.
for entire coastal countries.
to create marine protected areas.
para crear áreas marinas protegidas.
is more complicated than that,
deuda soberana es más complicada,
40 million dollars now,
USD 40 millones ahora,
for ocean conservation.
para la conservación del océano.
at least 30 percent of its ocean areas.
al menos el 30 % de sus áreas oceánicas.
bring investors, public funders
inversionistas, financiadores públicos
de desarrollo
development organizations
una parte de la deuda de la nación,
a portion of the nation's debt,
y períodos de reembolso más largos.
and longer repayment periods.
works with marine scientists,
trabaja con científicos marinos,
conservación detallado
con las necesidades de la gente.
with the needs of the people.
conservation trust fund.
conservación independiente.
restructure goes into it
de la reestructuración
áreas marinas protegidas.
al gobierno por sus compromisos,
accountable for its commitments,
financien esfuerzos reales de protección.
finance real protection efforts.
conservation plan in the Seychelles.
de conservación en las Seychelles.
of the government's debt.
de la deuda del gobierno.
to protect 30 percent of its marine areas.
el 30 % de sus áreas marinas.
square kilometers of ocean.
roughly the size of Germany.
del tamaño de Alemania.
is protecting its coral reefs,
sus arrecifes de coral,
to climate change.
al cambio climático.
it's strengthening its economy.
están fortaleciendo su economía.
other governments take note.
que otros gobiernos tomen nota.
to scale this up, dramatically.
para escalar esto drásticamente.
where such a plan should be possible.
en las que tal plan debería ser posible.
who can develop conservation plans,
para desarrollar planes,
y estructurar tratos.
and structure the deals.
over the next five years,
en los próximos 5 años,
square kilometers of ocean.
4 millones de km2 de océano.
the amount of protected areas
la cantidad de áreas protegidas
of the world's coral reefs to replenish
arrecifes de coral del mundo se repongan
20 countries in the world
de deuda funcionaría.
conversion would work.
financiadores,
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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