Harrison Ford on the importance of rainforests at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 — Transcript

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1. 0:00when Indiana Jones first strode into the
2. 0:03Peruvian rainforest back in 1936 at the
3. 0:06beginning of the Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. 0:08in 1981 it was clear to me that he had
5. 0:12the coolest job on earth it is a real
6. 0:15honor to give the floor to the
7. 0:17vice-chair of Conservation International
8. 0:19mr. Harrison Ford
9. 0:22[Applause]
10. 0:31thank you thank you very much I'm very
11. 0:35honored to be here today and I'm very
12. 0:38grateful for the opportunity to address
13. 0:40you we've been talking about saving the
14. 0:44Amazon for 30 years almost 30 years ago
15. 0:50sting held a concert to save the Amazon
16. 0:53right here in New York and we're still
17. 0:57talking about it the world's largest
18. 1:00rainforest the Amazon is crucial to any
19. 1:06climate change solution for its capacity
20. 1:10to sequester carbon for its biodiversity
21. 1:13for its freshwater for the air we
22. 1:18breathe for our morality and it is on
23. 1:23fire when a room in your house is on
24. 1:27fire you don't say there's a fire in a
25. 1:30room in my house you say my house is on
26. 1:32fire and we only have one house sorry
27. 1:50greed is winning the battle for the
28. 1:53Amazon and what we've done to preserve
29. 1:56the Amazon what we've worked so hard for
30. 1:59is being purposefully undone we need to
31. 2:05protect what we have we need to restore
32. 2:10what we have lost and we need to defund
33. 2:13the mechanisms the perverse tax
34. 2:16subsidies the lending policies and the
35. 2:19institutional investments that fuel
36. 2:22deforestation it's understood that the
37. 2:26protection
38. 2:31it is understood that the protection and
39. 2:34preservation of tropical forests can
40. 2:37achieve at least 30% of the emissions
41. 2:41reductions we need to protect the planet
42. 2:47on behalf my goodness I'm so sorry in
43. 2:55the movies we get to do it over and
44. 3:05without the Amazon without securing the
45. 3:08largest standing tropical forests in the
46. 3:10world we cannot achieve a climate
47. 3:13solution and nothing else we do will
48. 3:17matter thanks to the Leticia pact a
49. 3:22framework for recognizing and protecting
50. 3:23the valuable forest and its peoples
51. 3:27signed by the governments of Guyana
52. 3:30Suriname Colombia Ecuador Peru Bolivia
53. 3:34and Brazil there is a way forward Thank
54. 3:40You president Duque for your leadership
55. 3:44in for in formulating the pact but this
56. 3:49initiative this pact must have funding
57. 3:51it must have teeth
58. 3:53it must have legislative legitimacy
59. 3:58Conservation International has been
60. 4:00working in Amazon Amazonia for over 30
61. 4:03years and we are here now to stand with
62. 4:07you to put funding to put teeth in this
63. 4:12ambition president McCrone we're
64. 4:16sincerely grateful to the French
65. 4:18government which has committed to
66. 4:20investing in this effort with a 100
67. 4:23million dollar contribution thank you
68. 4:25sir thank you it's a great start
69. 4:33it is a great start but it is not enough
70. 4:39on behalf of Conservation International
71. 4:42I'm honored to announce that we are
72. 4:44committing an additional 220 million
73. 4:46dollars in funding but we can't do it
74. 4:55alone we need all the help that we can
75. 4:57get this money must go directly to
76. 5:01indigenous people and civil society the
77. 5:07people on the front lines the people on
78. 5:10the ground the people with their feet in
79. 5:12the mud our efforts will have effect we
80. 5:17will make great progress and we are not
81. 5:21alone there's a new force of nature at
82. 5:25hand stirring all over the world they
83. 5:29are the young people whom frankly we
84. 5:32have failed who are angry who are
85. 5:36organized who are capable of making a
86. 5:40difference they are a moral army and the
87. 5:46most important thing that we can do for
88. 5:48them is to get the hell out of their way
89. 5:53[Applause]