国际生物多样性日
Today, 22nd May is the United Nations (UN) International Day for Biological Diversity, also known as “biodiversity.”
但什么是生物多样性?
Biodiversity is commonly defined as the biological diversity of species including plants (flora), 动物(动物群)和生态系统.
为什么生物多样性很重要?
The latest 世界自然基金会地球生命力报告(2022)1 highlights that global wildlife populations have plummeted by 69% on average since 1970—threatening the livelihood of our environments and diverse species--and confirms that 生物多样性受到威胁.
是什么导致了这场危机?
The 生物多样性丧失的5个主要驱动因素 (UN, 2019)2，一些例子包括:
- 土地和海洋利用的变化 – deforestation and peatland drainage—especially to enable mono-crop agriculture
- 自然资源的利用和生物的开发 – over-fishing, unethical mining, unsustainable extraction of water
- 气候变化 – increases in extreme weather events leading to habitat destruction
- Pollution – marine plastic pollution and nitrogen run-off, especially from chemically fertilized agriculture
- 外来入侵物种 – introduced through global supply chains and human activity -- overtaking native species
这会影响我们的行业吗? 为什么保护生物多样性对皇冠至关重要?
i)自然是我们供应链的一部分， 不管 我们是否直接使用自然资源. Businesses, and ultimately our way of life, are dependent on healthy ecosystems. A healthy, diverse ecosystem maintains soil and soil health to grow the food we need to eat; preserves water quality for us to safely drink; and filters and improves the quality of the air we need to breathe.
皇冠用铝和钢制造包装, 开采自资源丰富的铝土矿和铁矿, 保护顾客的饮料, food, and other products—products that ultimately come from plants and water. 没有自然提供的资源, 也被称为“生态系统服务”,” businesses including ours cannot continue to function effectively.
ii)生物多样性的缺乏具有重大的货币影响 -例如, the loss of insect and animal species diversity is not just a loss for their ecosystem, 而是更大的多米诺骨牌效应. In fact, the loss of pollinator species alone will specifically threaten global crops with an annual market value of up to $577bn.3
iii) Biodiversity and nature is recognized as a powerful force to reduce CO2 相当于排放 – it is estimated that by working with nature, emissions can be reduced by up to 11.到2030年，每年减少70亿吨二氧化碳当量4超过了限制全球变暖所需的40%.
皇冠如何采取行动保护生物多样性?
a)了解对生物多样性的任何潜在影响; 云顶集团糖果游戏 has been mapping biodiversity in the vicinity of our plants using IBAT -生物多样性综合评估工具5 – starting with the aluminum beverage manufacturing facilities. 我们还在创建生物多样性风险评估, Mitigation, Management, and Action plans that have been audited to meet the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) Biodiversity criteria for the ASI Performance Standard.
b)提高对生物多样性的认识; 云顶集团糖果游戏 is offering training in our manufacturing sites (starting in Asia Pacific and the Americas) that supports employees to plant native trees and share information about 生物多样性在网上. Raising awareness and fostering conversation around this topic is critical to improving engagement – as the existence of International Biodiversity Day demonstrates.
c) Partnering with local organizations in the vicinity of our plants: 以达到水补充目标的一部分 Twentyby30 可持续发展项目, 包括目标9, we are teaming up with other parties on appropriate habitat preservation and creation. This support for local communities in turn supports biodiversity.
It is important we step up in these ways as almost 75% of the land-based environment and about 66% of marine environment has been significantly altered by human actions, but on average these trends have been much less severe or avoided in areas held or managed by indigenous peoples and local Indigenous peoples6 act as stewards for over 40% of intact ecosystems and protected areas, 尽管只占全球人口的6%. Indigenous peoples managed lands have equal or higher levels of biodiversity in Brazil, Canada.7
Therefore, ensuring local partnerships are engaged with local and indigenous communities is critical to sustaining a biodiverse future that will help mitigate climate change, 以及支持我们的企业和人类生活.
For example, 云顶集团糖果游戏’s ongoing water replenishment project in Brazil supports 3 years of work, 通过与当地农民和社区合作，这将导致 保护森林100公顷 in the Jundiaí米林流域，每年的项目. It will also replenish almost half of the water consumed in our manufacturing plant in Cabreúva by the project completion date, 然后抵消1,310公吨 CO2 每年等值.8
生物多样性危机并非无法解决， 但它现在需要引起关注. 企业可以在长期解决方案中发挥作用. 云顶集团糖果游戏 is just at the start of an important journey to address biodiversity, 伴随着我们的雄心和持续 Twentyby30 策略，最终减少我们的环境足迹.
1http://wwflpr.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2022_full_report_1.pdf
2http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
3IPBES, 2015 - Given that pollinator-dependent crops rely on animal pollination to varying degrees, it is estimated that 5-8 per cent of current global crop production, with an annual market value of $235 billion-$577 billion (in 2015, 全世界都是美元, 是否直接归因于动物授粉
4http://www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-action/facts-about-climate-emergency
5http://www.ibat-alliance.org/
6Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Media Release 2019 - Media Release: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’ | IPBES secretariat
