Technology Powering Wildlife and Environmental Conversation with Brad Ack of World Wildlife Fund

Technology Powering Wildlife and Environmental

Conservation

BRAD ACKWorld Wildlife

Fund

TRAVIS FABIANSalesforce.org

MORGAN CLENDANIEL

Fast Company

2016

Our OceansBrad AckWorld Wildlife Fund

Living PlanetReport 2014

Species and spaces, people and placesRichard McLellan / May GuerraouiWWF InternationalDecember 2014

State of the planet

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Living Planet IndexThe Global LPI shows a decline of 52% between 1970 and 210. On average, vertebrate species populations are about half the size they were 40 years ago.

Our Ecological Footprint2010 - 2013

The human population is currently consuming resources equivalent to

1.5 Earths

Our Ecological Footprint2013 - 2050

If we stay in the current course, by 2050 we will need resources equivalent to

2.5 Earths

Oceans bear huge footprint impact; changing faster than any other system

Oceans fuel the planetary water cycle that produces vital

freshwater…...produce healthy food for

billions of people…

…produce more than half our

O2; regulate global climate……and sustain livelihoods for hundred of millions.

Oceans have been valued at $24 trillion

dollars

Rising Sea Levels

Sea Temperature Change

Acidification Deoxygenation

Existential Threat: Greenhouse Gases

Downstream of everywhere

Ocean conservation is complex: oceans are

downstream of everywhere

Odon DeviceWHO

Pratt PouchDuke

Bubble CPAPRice

University

• First device for obstructed labor in 40 years

• Invented by Argentinian car mechanic

• Eliminates Cold Chain for Antiretroviral Drugs

• One Year Storage• Developed by Students at Duke

• Low-cost device for acute respiratory distress

• Developed by students• Cut mortality by 1/3

Oceans X-LabsA Different Model

Oceans X Lab: Creating the Oceans Innovation Pipeline

Source Develop Accelerate

Sustainable Impact at

Scale

Ideas Innovations Enterprises

New Enterprises and Markets

Blue Revolution for Oceans: Redesigning Aquaculture for Sustainability

Ending Overfishing:

Thank YouBrad AckBrad.Ack@wwfus.orgWorld Wildlife Fund

“The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.”

Jacques Cousteau

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