Protecting Our Planet
- July 7, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Protecting Our Planet
Subject: Environment
- It is an initiative by 9 philanthropic organizations who have collectively pledged $5 billion over ten years in support of the creation, expansion, management, and monitoring of protected and conserved areas of land, inland water, and sea.
- It will fund High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People (HAC) 30x30 goal to protect 30 percent of land and sea by 2030.
- The founding organizations of Protecting Our Planet — Arcadia – a charitable fund of LisbetRausing and Peter Baldwin; Bezos Earth Fund; Bloomberg Philanthropies; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Nia Tero; Rainforest Trust; Re:wild; Wyss Foundation; and the Rob and Melani Walton Foundation – are to be commended in their united effort to strengthen and expand protected areas across the globe while advancing the rights and guardianship of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.