Mark Tercek: An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection
Mark Tercek: Uma proposta engenhosa para aumentar a proteção marinha
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.
cheios de vida.
quite aware, more or less screwed.
mais ou menos lixados.
as atividades humanas
have left corals bleached.
têm embranquecido os corais.
a exaustão da quantidade de peixes.
fish stocks to plummet.
are strategically protected,
áreas marinhas, estrategicamente,
protected areas isn't easy.
áreas marinhas protegidas.
of figuring out where to protect.
de definir o local a proteger.
international fishing route,
com uma rota de pesca internacional,
must take into account
têm de ter em consideração
of getting everyone on board.
de incluir toda a gente.
sobretudo na pesca e no turismo.
often rely on fishing and tourism.
que não podem trabalhar,
the local buy-in you need
a aceitação necessária
must also be enforced.
têm de ser impostas.
must be deeply invested in the plan.
tem de investir profundamente no plano.
may want to protect their waters,
podem querer proteger as suas águas
have very high debt
estão muito endividados
to prioritize conservation.
de dar prioridade à conservação.
to fund marine protection,
para financiar a proteção marinha,
marine-protected area here,
área marinha aqui,
protegidas, mais depressa,
marine protected areas faster,
smart ocean conservation look like?
uma conservação inteligente do oceano?
apoio do governo e planeamento cuidadoso
government support and careful planning
both local economies
as economias locais
an audacious idea
uma ideia audaciosa
all of these things in one fell swoop.
de uma assentada.
by island and coastal nations
das ilhas e países costeiros
to achieve their conservation goals.
atingir os seus objetivos de conservação.
e a vontade política
os mangais e as pescas.
a hipoteca da nossa casa
of a better interest rate,
de uma melhor taxa de juro
to insulate your attic.
para isolar o sótão.
for entire coastal countries.
para todos os países costeiros.
to create marine protected areas.
para criar áreas marinhas protegidas.
is more complicated than that,
é mais complicado do que isto,
com 40 milhões de dólares,
40 million dollars now,
for ocean conservation.
para a conservação do oceano.
at least 30 percent of its ocean areas.
pelo menos 30% das suas áreas oceânicas.
bring investors, public funders
investidores, financiamento público
development organizations
de desenvolvimento
a portion of the nation's debt,
da dívida da nação,
and longer repayment periods.
e períodos de reembolso mais longos.
works with marine scientists,
trabalha com cientistas marinhos,
de conservação pormenorizado
with the needs of the people.
com as necessidades da população.
conservation trust fund.
de conservação
restructure goes into it
marinhas protegidas.
accountable for its commitments,
o governo pelos seus compromissos,
finance real protection efforts.
financiam os esforços de proteção.
conservation plan in the Seychelles.
de conservação nacional nas Seychelles.
of the government's debt.
da dívida governamental.
to protect 30 percent of its marine areas.
proteger 30% das suas áreas marinhas.
square kilometers of ocean.
roughly the size of Germany.
is protecting its coral reefs,
os recifes de coral,
to climate change.
à alteração climática.
it's strengthening its economy.
estão a reforçar a sua economia.
other governments take note.
com que os governos reparem.
to scale this up, dramatically.
de aumentar isto, drasticamente.
where such a plan should be possible.
em que é possível um plano destes.
desenvolver planos de conservação,
who can develop conservation plans,
and structure the deals.
e estruturar os acordos.
over the next five years,
nos próximos cinco anos,
quatro milhões de km2 do oceano.
square kilometers of ocean.
the amount of protected areas
de áreas protegidas
of the world's coral reefs to replenish
dos recifes de coral mundiais
para inúmeras espécies.
20 countries in the world
este tipo de conversão da dívida.
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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