World Land Trust and Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda IAP co-organized three screenings and panel discussions September 22, 23 and 25th in NYC, during Climate Week NYC. The world premiere of the documentary film was met with emotion and surprise, as well as the insights from our guest speakers. World Land Trust will release the film online after the first public showing in London in October. For more information:
Sunday, 22 September – 12:45 – 2:30pm,
Location: Convene, 101 Park Avenue, Room: Madison Hub North World Premier; Protecting the Heart of Mexico – Regenerative Solutions as Drivers for Change
Film and speakers: Dan Bradbury World Land Trust, Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo, GrupoEcológico Sierra Gorda
Monday, 23 September – The Explorer´s Club 3:45 – 5:00pm,
Location: 46 E. 70th Street Special Screening: Protecting the Heart of Mexico – In the Sierra Gorda Biosphere
Join award-winning filmmakers and conservationists for a special screening and discussion.
Wednesday, 25 September – Nature-based Solutions Day – Nature´s Hub
2:00 – 3:30pm,
Location: Central Park Zoo, Workshop Area North
Tropicalizing Kyoto – The Grounding of Global Protocols to the Local Level TO
Panel & film: Dan Bradbury, WLT. Pati Ruiz Corzo, Director GESG. Senator on leave Eduardo Murat H. (Mexico),&Martin Frick, Senior Director for Policy and Programme Coordination, UNFCCC.
Session description:
The wide gap between global climate protocols and the rural landowners of high biodiversity areas is where the carbon market fails. This session brings together a group of stakeholders that cross the international and local civil sectors as well as national and subnational government sectors at play in Mexico, diving deep into a concrete example of early climate action plans that have proven to protect the planet and the people who live there.
Financing for conservation is scarce in the center of Mexico, provoking the innovation to develop a subnational climate protocol in close partnership with State Government and the federal government to overcome the obstacles. Leveraging sub-national financing is the opportunity to break the inertia of global protocols and mobilize fresh funding. The regenerative tools being transferred to rural producers set in motion an energetic response from rural society to provide the services of water and carbon dioxide capture in their soils and forests. By developing innovative public policies that catalyze action on a state and federal level, the contributions of the primary sector have the capacity to increase ambition for the NDCs to the Paris Climate Agreement.
In celebration of World Land Trust’s 30 years of conservation success, the film by award-winning filmmakers Kristin Gates and Jeremy LàZelle offers the opportunity to experience one of our reserves like never before, exploring the WLT funded Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve
Speakers
Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo
36 years ago, Martha "Pati" Ruiz Corzo co-founded Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda IAP in 1987 with local citizens to raise awareness about the biodiversity, the threats and the grassroots movement to build a regenerative future the region. In 1997, she was appointed federal director of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve by President Zedillo, serving until 2008 when she returned to the civil society organization located in Jalpan de Serra, Querétaro. The result has been the creation of a grassroots environmental movement that has transformed natural resource management practices of the local population and re-oriented public investment from government authorities through environmental education, solid waste management, regenerative practices in soils and forests, sustainable rural tourism, community microenterprise networks, and voluntary carbon offsets for the private sector and subnational climate action. Selected Awards: 2001 Schwab Foundation; 1996 Ashoka; 2002 Rolex Associate Laureate; 2012 National Geographic Buffet Award for Conservation Leadership & Nat Geo World Legacy Award 2017; UNWTO Innovative Tourism 2018; UNEnvironment Champion of the Earth 2013.
Dr. Martin Frick
The Senior Director for Policy and Programme Coordination ensures that the secretariat provides high quality technical input and advice to Parties on all aspects related to the negotiation process as well as efforts undertaken by governments to implement the mandates under the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
Kristin Gates
Kristin Gates is an expedition filmmaker, field archaeologist, inspirational speaker, and writer. She is best known for trekking solo across Alaska’s Arctic on a 1,000-mile route through the Brooks Range that she mapped out herself. Since then Kristin has worked to protect the Arctic and other important areas under threat. She utilizes documentary film projects to tell stories that pertain to environmental and human rights issues.
Jeremy Là Zelle
Jeremy Là Zelle is a leading adventure and expedition photographer and filmmaker. His documentary work has led him to the Arctic, the Himalayas, remote regions of Africa and South America, and beyond. He continually travels the world producing exciting and informative documentaries for TV Networks, Nations, NGOs, Charities, and Social Enterprises who truly make a positive impact on their communities. Jeremy has written, directed, and produced for National Geographic Channel, History Channel, Animal Planet, and for incredible nations such as the Kingdom of Bhutan, Kingdom of Eswatini, Ethiopia, Peru, and many more. Above all, Jeremy dedicates his heart and talents into documenting the work of top scientists and educators across the planet who are changing the world for the better. “As a filmmaker, I strongly believe that documenting and showcasing the stories of these incredible individuals with global audiences will ultimately translate to inspired youth, a better understanding of our collective history, and ultimately the preservation of our natural environment.”
Dan Bradbury
After spending many years working in Marketing teams as a Graphics and Packaging manager Dan joined the WLT team in January 2013 as Head of Digital Communications, where had the opportunity use key transferrable skills relating to brand awareness through digital and social networks to support his passion for the natural world. Dan’s role has evolved and he is now the Director of Communications and Development where he steers and co-ordinates a range of activities to ensure integration with all elements of the Trust’s work relating to communications and fundraising, including individual and corporate support and campaign management with an emphasis on delivering a vibrant, coherent and consistent message to increase income and awareness of World Land Trusts work.
Eduardo Murat
Our Strategy
“Globally recognized protocols have achieved marginal results in protecting nature. Because they do not take landowners’ contexts of extreme poverty into account, they cannot be applied to local conditions and their requirements are impossible to fulfill, leading to paralysis of action. Decades go by, objectives are not met, and natural capital continues to be lost. REDD proyects are sophisticated pilots that have not achieved their objective because the costs and requirements make local application impossible.
We adapt these global protocols to local contexts with methodologies that generate new financial resources at the subnational level, guarantee transparency in the quantification of emissions reductions, strengthen weak federal participation, and encourage the formation of a regenerative culture. Our approach is an energetic response from rural society to protect biodiversity and natural infrastructure, recover agricultural productivity, increase regional resilience, and recover ecosystems, increasing their capacity to mitigate climate change.
By transferring knowledge of regenerative tools to ranchers, farmers, forest owners, technicians, and state officials, we facilitate the shift away from traditional management and encourage the adoption of best practices, helping to create a new rural society.
We seek to enrich the current gray agenda with a green element: the recovery of natural capital. Our contribution is based on our experience in the field and familiarity with the often overlooked potential that the regeneration of nature offers for mitigating climate change and poverty.”
-Martha “Pati” Isabel Ruiz Corzo
Director of the Conservation Alliance for the Sierra Gorda
Recipient of the Champions of the Earth Award (2013) and the Wangari Maathai Award (2014)
Background
Sierra Gorda registered a NAMA project under SEMARNAT and in the UNFCCC Registry in 2018
