COP10.org teamed up with Earth Foundation and Big Medicine to cover and/or interview some of the most compelling voices at COP10. The concerns these individuals articulate still define the greatest threats to the CBD treaty's future and biodiversity overall. Besides the samples below, many more perspectives will be posted soon at the Earth Foundation Vimeo channel.
Sparking the most densely attended COP10 press conference, Harrison Ford spoke of the need for a broader and more passionate environmental movement and urged the US to end its holdout status and ratify the CBD. Co-featuring Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Secretariat Executive Secretary; Russell Mittermeier, Executive Director of Conservation International; and former UN University vice rector Kinhide Mushakoji presenting a CBD ratification appeal from Japanese civil society to the White House and US Senate. Moderated by ubiquitous COP10 coordinator, David Ainsworth. See Japanese appeal here.
Mona Polacca is a Hopi-Tewa/Havasupai elder and member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Grandmother Mona has a Masters degree in Social Work and serves in several United Nations indigenous issues committees. She is also strongly committed to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and offered a bracing wake-up call to corporate/consumerist society in her Nagoya presentations.
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