Pledge for change

23/02/202323/02/2023 | martinpm

(I ci pour lire l’ensemble des capsules sur la COP15, incluant les versions françaises)

The delegates from 196 countries finally agreed in December 2022 in Montreal on the new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It includes four goals and 23 targets, as the 30% of protected world’s land and water areas by 2030.

Here is my fourth and last short comic about COP15 and biodiversity.

Voici ma 4e et dernière capsule sur la biodiversité et la COP15 (click here to read the four comics).

A short comic about COP15 in Montreal, biodiversity and nature positive

References

Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework;
Nature Positive movement: A Global Goal for nature: Nature Positive by 2030;
Mariën, N. 2022. How positive will “Nature Positive” be? Les Amis de la Terre international;
Monteiro Silva, M. 2022. Le problème du concept de « Nature Positive », Greenpeace Luxembourg;
Milner-Gulland, E.J. 2022. Don’t dilute the term Nature Positive, Nature Ecology & Evolution vol. 6, pages 1243–1244;
Maron et al. 2021. Setting robust biodiversity goals. Conservation Letters;
Maron et al. 2016. Taming a Wicked Problem: Resolving Controversies in Biodiversity Offsetting, BioScience;
Dickie, G. 2022. Explainer: Why did past targets to protect nature fail over the last decade? , Reuters;
Nature. 2020. The United Nations must get its new biodiversity targets right.

Offsetting as an excuse for biodiversity loss

14/12/202214/12/2022 | martinpm

(ici pour la version française)

As seen in the two first comics, one of the biggest challenge of the last decades have been to balance conservation and development. It is why some «offsetting» systems have been used to compensate destruction of natural habitat. Does it work? What will say COP15 about it?

A comic about Contrecoeur Port Terminal Expansion in Montreal and the Copper Redhorse's habitat destruction.

A comic about offsetting and no net loss of fish habitat in Quebec and in Canada.

A comic about no net loss of fish habitat and wetlands with Alain Branchaud of Canadien Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)

A comic about offsetting and no net loss of fish habitat in Quebec and in Canada. About biodiversity markets in California and USA.

A comic about offsetting and no net of wetlands and Western Chorus Frog habitat in Quebec.

A comic about offsetting, net gain of habitat, and COP15.

References

COSEPAC, 2014. Chevalier cuivré (Moxostoma hubbsi) : évaluation et rapport de situation;
MFFP, 2021. Les espèces fauniques menacées et vulnérables: le Chevalier cuivré;
MPO, 2012. Plan de rétablissement du Chevalier cuivré (Moxostoma hubbsi) au Canada;
Maron, M. et al, 2016. Taming a Wicked Problem: Resolving Controversies in Biodiversity Offsetting. BioScience 66: 489–498.
Moreno-Mateos, D. et al. 2015. The true loss caused by biodiversity offsets. Biological Conservation.
Champagne, P.-É., 2022. Compensation pour la destruction des milieux humides: près de 100 millions de dollars dorment à Québec. La Presse, 7 octobre 2022.
MELCCFP, 2022. Programme de restauration et de création de milieux humides et hydriques.
Tessier N., Veilleux L. et Roy, E. 2015. Validation des outils et modifications des aménagements de la rainette faux-grillon, printemps-été 2014. MFFP, Dir. de la gestion de la faune de l’Estrie, de Montréal, de la Montérégie et de Laval, Secteur de la faune. 38 pages + annexes.
Quigley JT, Harper DJ. 2006. Effectiveness of Fish Habitat Compensation in Canada in Achieving No Net Loss. Environmental Management Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 351–366.

Biodiversity is political

02/12/2022 | martinpm

(Read the first short comic about COP15 here, lisez la version française ici.)

Politics is everywhere. It is why I take the time talk about the environmental backlash that happened in USA in the 1970s and the 1980s, ending by market-oriented environmental regulations. And that impacted our way to manage biodiversity.