Mark Tercek: An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection
Mark Tercek: Une proposition ingénieuse pour amplifier la protection maritime
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.
quite aware, more or less screwed.
vous le savez probablement,
have left corals bleached.
et le changement climatique
fish stocks to plummet.
la chute des stocks halieutiques.
de protection, évidemment.
are strategically protected,
peuvent se rétablir.
protected areas isn't easy.
maritimes protégées n'est pas facile.
of figuring out where to protect.
est de déterminer où protéger.
international fishing route,
avec une route de pêche internationale,
must take into account
doit prendre en compte
of getting everyone on board.
de la pêche et du tourisme.
often rely on fishing and tourism.
ne pas pouvoir travailler,
the local buy-in you need
l'adhésion nécessaire des locaux
must also be enforced.
doivent être imposées.
must be deeply invested in the plan.
doit être s'investir dans le projet.
nécessite de l'argent.
et des nations côtières
may want to protect their waters,
have very high debt
ont des dettes élevées
to prioritize conservation.
prioriser la conservation.
to fund marine protection,
pour financer la protection maritime,
marine-protected area here,
maritime protégée ici et là.
marine protected areas faster,
de zones protégées et rapidement
smart ocean conservation look like?
intelligente des océans ?
government support and careful planning
le soutien gouvernemental,
both local economies
à la fois les économies locales
an audacious idea
une idée audacieuse
all of these things in one fell swoop.
en même temps.
by island and coastal nations
des nations insulaires et côtières
to achieve their conservation goals.
leurs objectifs de conservation.
de restructurer cette dette
et la volonté politique
les mangroves et les lieux de pêche.
vous refinancez votre maison
of a better interest rate,
d'un meilleur taux d'intérêt,
to insulate your attic.
pour isoler vos combles.
for entire coastal countries.
pour la conservation font
des zones maritimes protégées.
to create marine protected areas.
is more complicated than that,
est plus compliquée que cela,
40 million dollars now,
40 millions de dollars,
for ocean conservation.
jusqu'à 1,6 milliard
at least 30 percent of its ocean areas.
au moins 30% de ces zones océaniques.
bring investors, public funders
fait venir des investisseurs,
de développement international
development organizations
a portion of the nation's debt,
de la dette nationale,
et plus de délai de remboursement.
and longer repayment periods.
un projet maritime.
works with marine scientists,
travaille avec des océanographes,
des acteurs locaux
de conservation détaillé
with the needs of the people.
et les besoins des gens.
l'activer pour la longévité.
conservation trust fund.
pour la conservation
de la dette y vont
restructure goes into it
maritimes protégées.
accountable for its commitments,
pour responsable de ses engagements :
finance real protection efforts.
financent des efforts de protection.
conservation plan in the Seychelles.
de conservation national aux Seychelles.
of the government's debt.
de la dette gouvernementale.
to protect 30 percent of its marine areas.
de protéger 30% de ses zones maritimes.
sur la bonne voie pour protéger
square kilometers of ocean.
roughly the size of Germany.
la taille de l'Allemagne.
is protecting its coral reefs,
leurs récifs coralliens,
to climate change.
au changement climatique.
it's strengthening its economy.
elles renforcent leur économie.
other governments take note.
prennent note de cette réussite.
to scale this up, dramatically.
d'amplifier considérablement cette idée.
where such a plan should be possible.
où un tel projet devrait être possible.
who can develop conservation plans,
développant des projets de conservation,
and structure the deals.
structurant les accords.
over the next five years,
durant les cinq prochaines années,
de kilomètres carrés d'océan.
square kilometers of ocean.
the amount of protected areas
des zones protégées
of the world's coral reefs to replenish
de vastes étendues de récifs coralliens
à d'innombrables espèces.
20 countries in the world
conversion would work.
de la dette marcherait.
tout le monde y gagne.
les citoyens locaux, les donateurs
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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