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The Nature Pledge: Biodiversity and Sustainability in Asia and the Pacific

UNDP - Sean Lees

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Frequency: 1 episode/32d. Total Eps: 20

Join host, Sean Lees, as he speaks with leading voices on efforts to combat nature loss in Asia-Pacific. What can be done to ensure economic growth does not result in ecosystem collapse and species extinction? What shifts are needed in our values, business practices, and environmental policies to benefit both people and planet? What trade-offs are required? Subscribe to The Nature Pledge podcast to understand the people, policies and politics driving action on biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific today.

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Episode 19 - Cambodia's Biodiversity Priorities: A Study of Contrasts

Monday, August 3, 2026 • Duration 37:10

Over the past two decades, Cambodia’s economic transition to lower-middle-income status has come at a steep environmental cost—including the loss of a massive share of its humid primary forests.

In this two-part episode, we explore the contrasting priorities of Cambodia’s policy makers and Indigenous Peoples. Where do goals overlap and where are they still misaligned?

Ken Bopreang, Director of Biodiversity at Cambodia's Ministry of Environment, outlines the state's vision including a massive reforestation effort and new inter-ministerial working groups.

Mane Yun, Executive Director of the Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Organization (CIPO), shares the perspective of an indigenous community facing legal challenges for exercising traditional land use patterns.

In this episode, we also discuss how multilateral actors and bilateral donors can better serve the needs of Indigenous Peoples.

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Episode 18 - The Right to a Healthy Environment: Accelerating the KM Global Biodiversity Framework

Monday, July 6, 2026 • Duration 25:36

In 2022, the UN General Assembly recognized the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (RHE), the same year the world agreed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

In this episode, we speak to Astrid Puentes Riaño, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and discuss the nexus of human rights and nature loss.

Has the RHE accelerated action on nature loss, and if so, how? Importantly, how has her work been received by policy makers and business and finance leaders in the countries she visits? And what do we make of the contradictions and complementarities between the rights of nature and human rights?

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Episode 17 - Reclaiming the Range: Unpacking the Role of Pastoralism in Driving Biodiversity Gains

Monday, May 11, 2026 • Duration 21:52

Rangelands cover 54% of our earth’s terrestrial surface and sustain around 500 million pastoralists world-wide, yet they receive a fraction of the attention they deserve and require.

In this episode of The Nature Pledge podcast, we dive headfirst into the misunderstandings and controversies surrounding rangelands and the pastoralists that call these vital landscapes their home. Natasha Kirit Maru, Global Lead for Rangelands and Pastoralists at the International Land Coalition, challenges us to better understand topics like overgrazing and the sometimes-contentious relationship with conservation and climate mitigation efforts.

With up to 50% of global rangelands degraded, Natasha also highlights progress made, and the urgency of the upcoming UNCCD COP 17 in Mongolia. The year 2026, is also designated the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists.

Tune in to discover why protecting rangelands is a crucial factor in preventing biodiversity loss and driving sustainable development.

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Episode 16 - A New Relationship with Nature: The 2026 Human Development Report

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 • Duration 22:18

In this episode of The Nature Pledge podcast, we dive into the upcoming flagship report from UNDP, the 2026 Human Development Report (HDR), with Pedro Conceição, the Director of the Human Development Report Office. Together we explore what might result if business and society invested in a more constructive, mutually beneficial relationship between people and nature.

UNDP’s flagship report aims to shift our global dialoguetoward “constructive agency” to promote a reconnection between people and the planet. But just how feasible is this? And are we asking too much from business and society in this time of armed conflict and economic uncertainty?

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Episode 15 - Nature and the National Interest: A Conversation with UK FCDO on the Multidimensional Threats of Biodiversity Loss

Thursday, April 9, 2026 • Duration 21:40

Today, the degradation of our ecosystems is increasingly recognized as an economic, public health and national security priority. A recent security assessment by the British government has explored how environmental degradation can disrupt food, water, health and supply chains, and trigger wider geopolitical instability. A recently released assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems or IPBES outlines how economies are being undermined by the rapid deterioration of natural capital.

How can these new understandings intensify nature performance in Asia and the Pacific Region? Helping us to clarify the challenge and the solutions, we speak to the UK's FCDO Regional Director on Climate, Nature and Energy, and the Regional Director on Health.

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Episode 14 - Benchmarking Nature Performance: Corporate Rankings and Progress in Asia Pacific

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 • Duration 36:02

In this episode of The Nature Pledge, we consider the power of corporate benchmarking in nudging us towards a nature positive economy. Benchmarking the biodiversity performance of large enterprises can help us understand progress and incentivize further action. And as importantly, corporate rankings and indexes can tell us a great deal about how further there is left to go in mitigating the drivers of biodiversity loss.

Recently, the World Benchmarking Alliance – or WBA – released its 2026 Nature Benchmark report. Perhaps, unsurprisingly, WBA’s 2026 assessment of the world's most influential companies produced some rather alarming results: Only 14% of companies in their overall survey reported on their nature impacts. Of these, the global average score for the quality of their nature reporting was a paltry 17.3 out of 100.

What accounts for these failing grades? And how do we shrink the vast distance between corporate reporting, action and the global biodiversity goals?

Listen in to our latest episode to find out!

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Episode 13 - Season 1 Recap: Managing Tensions and Transitions in the Nature and Sustainable Development Space

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 • Duration 25:49

In this 2025 recap episode, we revisit the key themes andmost valuable reflections from our guest speakers. Over 12 episodes, our guests had a lot to say about the changing political and economic environment impacting on overseas development assistance and our work on nature and sustainable development. We also spoke at length about to the tensions between regional economic growth ambitions and the goals articulated in national biodiversity strategies and action plans. Lastly, our guest speakers spent significant time detailing the importance but also the challenges of multistakeholder engagement.

Listen in and hear the highlights from our inaugural season!

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Episode 12 - Financing Sustainability in a Time of Uncertainty

Monday, November 24, 2025 • Duration 17:16

To address biodiversity loss, climate change, poverty and inequality, trillions of dollars in public and private financing are required. And yet the world seems to be churning faster than ever before with daily setbacks at both national and international levels.

Some observers say that meeting our sustainable development ambitions are increasingly unlikely under current political and economic circumstances. Is a full-fledged revolution in sustainable financing needed? The private sector has NOT been sitting on the sidelines, but can it do more? Can it afford not to?

Join us for Episode 12, "Financing Sustainability in a Time of Uncertainty" and hear from Sebnem Sener, UNDP’s Head of Private Finance for the SDGs, as she answers the most difficult questions:

1. Are we simply tinkering at the edges of the triple planetary crisis with sustainable finance, or addressing systemic risks?

2. If sustainable finance is both profitable and important, why does it need to be promoted?

3. With trade tensions and economic certainty running so high, are the best days for sustainable finance behind us?

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Episode 11 - China, Social Entrepreneurship and the Future of Sustainability

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 • Duration 20:21

Social entrepreneurship has taken off in the region, including in China, with remarkable energy and results. Governments and private organizations are taking note and increasingly supporting this sector through funding and enabling policies.

How might impact-focused entrepreneurs change the shape of nature conservation and sustainable use in China and elsewhere? What does their rise mean for the “sustainability recession” we seem to be going through?

In Episode 11, we will hear from Richard Brubaker, an influential voice in both sustainability and social entrepreneurship circles in the region, but especially in China.

As the Managing Director of Collective Responsibility, a Shanghai-based consultancy, Richard has worked in Asia for the last 30 years with a diverse range of stakeholders on sustainability—from governments and multinational corporations to startups and academic institutions.

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Episode 10 - Malaysia's Green Transformation and the Role of the Business and Human Rights Agenda

Sunday, November 2, 2025 • Duration 25:41

Malaysia is a study in contrasts: a mega-diverse country at the verge of reaching advanced economy status. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the country has transformed in more ways than one over the course of its development journey.

Edmund Bon, the Chair and Malaysia representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Committee on Human Rights provides insights into how attitudes in his country have changed towards nature, IPLCs and human rights, and how businesses have adapted. Evidencing a value-shift, the country has recently adopted a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAPBHR) which contains strong environmental provisions. How can this NAPBHR instrument be used to halt and reverse biodiversity loss? What role does ASEAN have to play? And how do bring human rights and environmental sustainability work closer together?

Join us for an illuminating discussion with Edmund Bon, on these and other issues, on the newest episode of the Nature Pledge.

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