Hello! Chris Searles is director of BioIntegrity Partnerships. In this podcast he reads his blog on how to make the UN's annual climate conferences more meaningful, for all parties. Read the blog here.

Select Quotes

"Grow-back the climate and De-carbonize the economically-dominant immediately: that’s the right focus."

"Forests are multi-taskers. Done right, protecting / regrowing / enriching forests is our most effective primary solution for climate stability. It’s not the only solution, but it’s the first one because it matters most."

"Improving the Food System is profitable, today, and it’s 100% of the carbon solution this decade. Groups like PlantWithPurpose.org show how Agroforestry, Regenerative Agricultural practices and Savings Co-ops are already lifting around 1,000,000 people out of poverty — and growing every year."

"To make the COPs more meaningful: We need a global culture seeking Wellth, rooted in Kinship and Biospheric Reality, with a vision for realizing an economics of inclusion, opportunity, generosity, and Abundance."

Chapters
1:00 Credit is due
2:30 Reality, though
6:itshe Point
7:20 The Way Out
10:45 Seeing the forest and the trees
15:00 More Meaningful COPs

Links

• COP28 https://www.cop28.com/en/
• Re: COP28, "The goal was to cut emissions in half in six years" https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/15/opinions/climate-change-comedy-cop28-mcguire/index.html
• COP28's success marks just a tiny upgrade on COP27 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/cop28-s-success-marks-just-a-tiny-upgrade-on-cop27-results
• COP 20, The Paris Climate Accord https://unfccc.int/most-requested/key-aspects-of-the-paris-agreement
• COP26, The Glasgow Forests & Lands Agreement https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20230418175226/https://ukcop26.org/glasgow-leaders-declaration-on-forests-and-land-use/
• 10 strategies can remove more than 100% of what's needed to get us out of the greenhouse gas crisis this decade https://chrissearles-biointegrity.medium.com/the-value-of-biosphere-earth-pt-7-carbon-999807233250
• our best strategy for restoring the weather: https://www.biointegrity.net/value.html & https://www.wri.org/insights/what-cop26-means-forests-climate
• improve the food system: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.15873
• the simple math: https://chrissearles-biointegrity.medium.com/reducing-carbon-the-simple-math-fef19c95b708
• the cited science: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QYyZ2EWMuyGH19pTwVuGxu0hcLJKqVir/view
• additional drawdown opportunities: https://chrissearles-biointegrity.medium.com/the-value-of-biosphere-earth-pt-7-carbon-999807233250
• forests ARE the weather on land https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11983, and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1smYknUi27VgCKr2IDrIbtEHI4M1qAaPs/view, and https://drive.google.com/file/d/144JIyDkWY06owmTlLkIVZIVuMU71jxUS/view?ct=t%28Neil_Us9_12_2017_COPY_01%29&mc_cid=256c9667b2&mc_eid=9b31b6d982
• biointegrity.net