Wilsdcreen's Biodiversity Day - How we save the planet by 2030

WILDSCREEN’S BIODIVERSITY DAY

HOW WE SAVE THE PLANET BY 2030 18 OCTOBER 2018 • BRISTOL • UK • EARTH

About Biodiversity Day Concept The 2018 international Wildscreen Festival will host the largest ever global gathering of media and content producers under the banner of nature at Biodiversity Day. In anticipation of the world’s most critical biodiversity conference (CBD 2020), and with the support of world-leading scientists and conservation experts, we’re asking the people who decide what the public watches, the world’s media, to ensure the most important story on Earth gets told: the story of our planet’s survival and the very positive role that their audiences can play. Our very future depends on it.

About Wildscreen Wildscreen is not-for-profit conservation organisation. Our goal is to convene the best photographers, filmmakers and creative professionals with the most committed conservationists to create compelling stories about the natural world; that inspire the wider public to experience it, feel part of it and protect it.

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We are powered by an ecosystem of projects:

The internationally renowned biennial festival that celebrates and advances the art of natural world storytelling.

For over 36 years – held in Bristol, UK, the world’s ‘Green Hollywood’ – our Festival has established itself as the biggest global industry gathering and celebration of screen-based natural history, mobilising an unprecedented £33m by broadcasters on film commissions in this space.

870+ delegates from 39 countries* - Delegates include BBC, Netflix, NatIONAL GeoGRAPHIC, Disneynature, Terra Mater FACTUAL STUDIOS, NHK, Barcroft Media, Blue Ant Media

*based on 2016

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The world’s leading online natural world encyclopaedia;

A unique global hub empowering conservation organisations with world-leading imagery and expertise to create ground-breaking communications about the natural world.

The Importance of Biodiversity Day The Problem

Why CBD 2020 is So Important

Humans need basic resources to survive: air, water, food. Yet the beating heart of these seemingly simple needs – nature – is treated as an embellishment to the human story.

Something that’s pretty to look at, rather than the critical resource we depend on most for peace, health, prosperity and survival.

In 1992 at the Rio Summit, nearly every nation in the world agreed a legal framework underpinning the use and conservation of nature - The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In October 2010, a Strategic Plan for Biodiversity for 2011-2020 was approved, setting out 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

And it’s finite.

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In 2020, our world leaders will meet to address this, and determine the future of our planet and species at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Beijing.

But the problem is, no one knows that one of the most important meetings in history is happening.

We urgently need to ensure that decision makers in the negotiating rooms at CBD are in no doubt whatsoever of the importance of nature, and there is an overwhelming demand from their constituencies for ambitious targets, commitment to action and accountability, to ensure nature is protected and recovering by 2030. This is not a drill.

As we approach 2020, the world’s scientists know that we are going to fail to meet the targets on nearly all accounts. We’re on borrowed time. By 2030 biodiversity declines must be halted and nature’s abundance well on the road to recovery by 2050 or we will push our planet over the edge.

CBD 2020 has the potential to be history’s most important meeting or the greatest missed opportunity. We need nations, business and the public to roll up their sleeves and fight to protect our most precious resource, nature.

We have no planet B.

Our Solution Wildscreen’s Biodiversity Day will convene 150 key global media leaders, together with 150 conservation leaders, and call on them to stage a worldwide campaign for the survival of our planet. We firmly believe in the media’s platform of storytelling to spark positive and restorative action, and are dedicated to using this platform to motivate the general public and global leaders to take action. We and our partners believe that collectively, the world’s media is the most powerful tool we have to ensure nature’s story is told, understood and action taken.

Momentum is already growing - businesses are starting to take action, science and NGOs are united, but global media is the essential catalyst needed to connect the public with biodiversity, to communicate the urgency and stimulate mass behaviour change.

Wildscreen’s Biodiversity Day will focus on five areas of action that underpin the future health and functioning of our planet:

Space for nature and people

Water for nature and people

Humans for nature

Legal and sustainable use of nature Emergency action for nature

of influential speakers, will unite from across science, business, faith, politics, creativity and technology to set the scene for the global media – illustrating what will happen if we do nothing at CBD 2020, to the tangible steps we need to take and policies we need to create, to address the five themes and ensure our survival.

Biodiversity Day at Wildscreen Festival, Bristol 18 October 2018 WWF Living Planet Report October 2018 COP 14, Egypt 10 - 22 November 2018 Wildscreen Festival, Bristol October 2020 CDB 2020, China November 2020 Wildscreen Festival, Bristol October 2022 COP 16, Turkey December 2022

The timing of our event is perfect – taking place just 22 days before global leaders meet to start their planning for the new biodiversity goals.

Media attendees will pledge to take this information, translate it into accessible stories, and tell these stories to their audiences of millions. And Wildscreen and our partners will hold them to it.

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On Thursday 18 October, Wildscreen’s line-up

Timeline

Our Goals On Biodiversity Day: Wildscreen will secure pledges from at least 50 key global media leaders who attend the event to deliver content about the natural world – that inspire the wider public to experience it, feel part of it and protect it – and we will hold them accountable to this.

By CBD 2020: Wildscreen wants everyone on Earth to know CBD 2020 is happening, understand the full implications of this historic meeting, and hold their governments accountable for setting the necessary ambitious targets and commit to achieving them by 2030.

By 2030: Wildscreen wants a thriving planet where

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making ecologically conscious decisions is the default, nature is valued by humans, and protecting our planet’s sustainability lies at the centre of key global conversations.

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Theory of Change Pre-Event

Outcomes

Awareness will be raised around CBD 2020

What will the outcome be of these activities?

Attendees will understand their role and accountability

Post-Event/ Pre-CBD

CBD narrative will be consistent and well-coordinated across media

Media outlets will dedicate resources to CBD

Mass public will be reached and understand the importance of acting sustainably

CBD 2020

High-level decision makers will attend and lifesaving actions will be agreed

NGOs will be supported locally, nationally and internationally

Ambitions will be concrete and actionable

Post-CBD

Mass behavior change for biodiversity across business, governments and public

CBD commitments will be upheld

The outcomes of CBD will become a political agenda globally

Ultimate Aim

Our planet, and our biodiversity, will be resilient, thriving and sustainable

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EVENT

Mass media will awaken to the importance of biodiversity and the implications of CBD

Your Support – Opportunities & Experiences Community Sponsor £10k+

Ecosystem Sponsor £20k+

Biome Sponsor

30k+

Biosphere Sponsor £150k+

Be part of it: 2 tickets to Biodiversity Day.

Be part of it: 1 VIP pass and 4 tickets to Biodiversity Day, and 2 Festival tickets

Be part of it: 2 VIP passes and 8 tickets to Biodiversity Day, and 5 tickets to the Panda Awards

Be part of it: VIP passes to all 2018 Wildscreen events

PLUS THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS:

And all previous benefits, plus:

And all previous benefits, plus:

A highly bespoke package ofopportunities, including all previous benefits, plus:

Association with a worldleading conservation organisation and its vital work

Opportunity to brand and introduce a high-profile speaker

Private meet- and-greet with high-profile keynote speaker of Biodiversity Day

Headline brand recognition (e.g. “Wildscreen’s Biodiversity Day, Presented in Partnership with YOUR NAME”)

High visibility and brand exposure on Biodiversity Day collateral, marketing materials and press releases

Tailored fringe event in a Wildscreen venue (e.g. private viewing of a curated selection of Wildscreen films)

The opportunity to be the lead brand sponsor for a lunch or evening reception

Naming and presenting of a Panda Award

Priority access to sponsor a Panda Award

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The opportunity to host an exclusive film screening of a Panda Award-winning film with Filmmaker Q&A Plus Festival Discount: Major Sponsor package at a discounted rate of £7.5k

Plus Festival Discount: Principal Sponsor package at a discounted rate of £10k

Plus Festival Discount: Headline Sponsor package at a discounted rate of £90k

Plus Festival Discount: Headline Sponsor package at a discounted rate of £75k

Thank You For more information about how to partner with us and be part of the most important story ever told, please contact: Lucie Muir, Wildscreen Director Lucie.Muir@wildscreen.org +44 (0)117 929 1222

“IUCN is delighted that Wildscreen is organizing a Biodiversity Day at the 2018 Wildscreen Festival. We are particularly pleased that the focus of the Biodiversity Day is the new targets for nature that governments need to agree on in 2020. IUCN encourages all those attending the Biodiversity Day to push for strong, meaningful targets to stop the decline of nature and bring about its recovery.�

Inger Andersen, Director General, International Union for Conservation

Supported by

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