How I see it is, I view it from like René Girard's memetic theory. Monkey see, monkey do. There's a tipping point, boiling point, escape goes.  Okay, cool. We've cleansed ourselves of our sins and now we're starting over. Now, it can be another world war. Now, as we know it, it can be economic war. It can be a viral breakout. It can be so many different things. And if you look though at the lineage, even though we're currently, you're saying we're in a bad position, yes.  Oh yeah, I mean. My grandmother lived like, you know, back in the day the average lifespan was 45 or 47. I don't want to live till 47. You know, the average lifespan right now is 87, right? Yeah, it depends though.  That's to say if they had a purpose. I have no idea, right? But I grew it. You shouldn't just be sitting down. But eventually what I'm saying is this, you got technology, you got crazy people running countries. We're still running as like apes pre-programmed and conflict happened. Shit hits the fan. We learn from it. We get a little bit better. So we got to elongate the time span a lot because we only been here for kind of like a spec when the whole grand scheme of things. So we got to look like a couple of thousand years and we're like hopefully that time is like, things are good. To be told, I mean, I understand that position. It's like the Steven Pinker position. I'm not a big fan of that. Not a big fan because I don't think that, I think that there are certain things that have trade-offs. That there are trade-offs that you just can't, that you can't help. So you can't have, you can at the same time have a technocratic society and have a wisdom society. You just can't like, at least not if you put all your energy on the technocratic side. Like if you do that, then you're going to have to, you have a limited amount of energy. Some things are in a balance and you can't have both. And there's a reason why, why religious traditions have aesthetic practices. Like the fact of actually peeling back these garments, peeling back these exteriors is actually a way to center yourself, to enter into something which is aligned and which will help you see purpose and to see the bigger picture. But then that's actually, you get stories in the Bible of like whole city's morning, like everybody's morning in the city and everybody is fasting and all this stuff. Like maybe that's, we would need something like that. That's not going to happen. Like it's not going to happen.  What do they call it? Was it like all these from sober, November, whatever, sober October, whatever, like they inevitably will come back to it because it's like a natural thing to want to do that. But lacking, they only want to do it for health purpose. They don't have this idea that you're going to find some kind of, some kind of insight into your life by stripping back some of this excess. Well, this is once again, what I said, where like if people are the problem with modern religion and I wouldn't even relate to the Vatican, I relate it to like, let's say their local church or mosque, whatever, whatever temple you go to, the fuck, what can I call them? Well, in Islam, it's a mom and then it's a father. I don't know, you could call it the whole priest. Yeah, let's call them priests. Yeah, okay. So you got the priest inside this temple and the priest is usually kind of like the person guiding you, right? Okay. They need to update. Like if they had better communication and better updating for like modern times, people will listen to them and it's like, maybe it's my marketing mind thinking over here. Like if they use apps and they, well, not even apps, like better communication, man. It's like none of this like, you can take old ideologies and beliefs and update it to the new time and create better. Cause at the end of the day, what you want, you want a better, you want a healthier, better and happier family unit, more better and happier family units create the better society. A better society becomes a richer society. Like it works up from the grassroots. But what we need is not better communication. What we need are saints, but we need our holy people. Like you said before, we need our people who take it seriously, people who act in good faith, people who are trying to look at themselves, transform themselves first, remove their own, remove the splinter from their eye, all of that, all of the things that Christ sold us to do. That's the key, that's the solution. That's my favorite quote in the Bible, Matthew seven. But that's what we need to do. And so that's the only, that's the real solution is that and the only way to go about it is that you have to do it. Like I have to do it, not you. Like I have to do that. Like I have to be that.  Like if you, if you're transformed as a person, you know, this great quote by Saint Seraphim of Sarov who says, acquire the spirit of peace and a thousand around you will be saved. It's like if you, if you yourself get transformed, then the world will be transformed. I think this message is generally in most practice, like you look at the Sufi like Rumi as a thing. Yesterday I was clever, I want to change the world today and why is it when I change myself? Oh, you're right. So I think the message, you just got to get the message to people where it's like, yeah, your temple may help you, but the truth isn't out there, the truth's in you. You got to work on yourself. You got to take responsibility for yourself. But part of that is submitting to something higher than you, part of it is, because one of the biggest obstacle to, to transforming yourself is pride. Like that's the biggest obstacle is to think that I got it, I got this, I'm in charge, I'm doing this, all of that.  Like you, this isn't right. You're not, you're not doing it right. And just that, even just accepting to submit yourself to something higher is already part of the transformation. That's why we have that, because we dilute ourselves.  Like their relationships are horrible. They've just gotten to divorce. They're fighting for their kids. It's like, my goodness, dude, like that's spiritual stuff. Like it's not helping you, my friend. It's no good. Not for him, but then some other people that does help. I think it's all case dependent, right? Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, maybe. Even for myself, like what do I define myself as? I don't believe in capital. So what did you, what did you grow up as? You said, you said you're from a good family.  Right, yeah, atheism. Like you can't practice by law. You couldn't practice. In a nutshell, my family background is a mixture of like Islam and Orthodox Christianity from the Balkans. Well, for the most part, it's not. Which is atheistic, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like you're atheist by label. You don't, it's just like, one, by law, you couldn't practice. Like China, right? And two, it's just like, it's more cultural than anything. It's like cultural beliefs as opposed to like, let's say like religious beliefs. Yeah, yeah. But like for me, it's like, I'm not, like, I get what you're saying, but like, I'm not guided by the Holy Spirit or something like that. I'm guided by like, how do I become a better me? A better husband, a better partner, a better business person? How do I help people around me? How do I create a better community? Yeah. Like stuff like that. I think there's ways of hybridizing that as opposed to like, I need to have somebody telling me what to do. Well, it's good to have a mix of both. Because we dilute ourselves. Well, people, I mean, you can always pay for a shrink for the shrink to do that for you. Like people do that. I pop five grams of mushrooms and I sit down and it's gone. Oh man, I mean, yeah, it's like, I understand that's the world we're in. Like what you're saying is the world we're in.  Like it's a sad situation.  Well, I think what you're referring to is role models, man, like Kay's example, which is a lot of missing a lot within boys and men. Like you have absentee fathers. Like for me, my dad was like, was an absentee, but he was like a piece of furniture there, but not there, if you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously, how's my mom going to show me?  My mom's not going to control me, bless her soul. But like if you have, if you have like proper role model, not someone telling you, well, Jonathan, this is what you must do.  Yeah, interesting. People say one thing, but the actions speak another thing, like live by example. Yeah, no, I agree.  Is there example of somebody in recent times that you would kind of put in that category? Yeah, they're definitely, they're definitely, I mean, because I'm in the Orthodox Church, there are several elders in Mount Athos who command great respect and who have people who go and get their wisdom and then is able to spread that wisdom around. There's quite a few of those, you know, we have several saints, even some Serbian saints who were in America and who had some great effect and who kind of gave the tone for the church. And so there are people, but there are very few. That's true. And I think the fact that there are so few is why everything's so messed up, like we just look around and sad, it's kind of sad. So I understand your frustration with big R religion, but at the same time, I don't buy your alternative. I don't have an alternative. I'm just here doing me. I'm not selling anything to anybody. It's like, I'm not selling anything.  I'm a simpleton. I'm like, work on yourself, treat others how you want to be treated, you know, do good in the world. And I always say, like, focus on the primal things that makes a human being. Work out, be in physical shape because physical shape will dictate mental shape, work on your mental health, right? And all these things are interconnected, right? When you feel good, you do good. And so it's like, at least like focusing on the, and you can relate the basics. Like these simple things are much easier. Like I'm a firm believer in having a stepping stone and an inception to helping people. Cause let's say you're talking to a 17 year old and I work with a lot of young kids and you start talking about religion, forget about it, right? And this is, I'm not coming from religious perspective, but if you're talking about, hey man, like, I know what you want. I know you want to make money in the future. I know you want to live a good life, but this is how you do it, you know? Like take care of yourself, treat people right, you know?  Like you would think, you know, you would think that people would have this and I didn't have any of this mentorship or guidance when I was young. I had to learn everything myself through mistakes, right?  It's like no one, you know, no one sat me down to have this and I think a lot of this is just very basic stuff. It's like having a good family structure, having a good community to relate to, having somebody to talk to, having some role models to look at like, fuck. So where like, for example, like your community, like where, where does it come from? If I had to say would be the entrepreneurial community. Okay. Yeah. But then like you look at their behaviors, it aligns to like a lot of responsibility. They got to take care of everybody. They have two families. They have their family, which is their business and their platonic family, right? They got to take care of their health. They got to take care of their mentality. They got to take care of their finances. So to be a successful entrepreneur, like it takes a lot of these building blocks already to beat that level. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. But I think we'll wrap it up that. If people want to get to know more about you and everything and all the work you do, what's the best resource for them? Yeah. I mean, it's in terms of my speaking, it's really the YouTube channel. You can look me up, Jonathan Peugeot on YouTube or thesymbolicworld.com. That's my website. Usually all of my videos come out on that as well. And yeah, I also am a artist. I make religious art and people can check out my website, Peugeot Carvings. That's usually the best place to find me. All right, guys, thanks for watching. And also if you're listening to some iTunes, please leave a review and go check out Jonathan's stuff. I will leave a link in the show notes to his carvings. Go check out his carvings. It's pretty cool. I'm gonna buy one. Well, thanks for your, how can I say this? You know, I know we're on two different sides of a question and I really appreciate the generosity with which you engage with me. So thanks a lot. Likewise, all the best. All right, all the best.


Hello, I'm Ron Ferguson. I'm here at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and also at the Graduate School of Education. I run the Achievement Gap Initiative here and some of you may know me from the Tripod Project for School Improvement that we started about a decade ago. The reason I'm talking to you now, of course, is to talk about the workshop or the series of sessions on academic equity that we put together. The goal of this series of sessions is to give you the opportunity as a group of leaders in your district to craft a shared vision based upon what research and the literature suggests, but also based upon what you bring to the table. The members of your group each have, every person has their own experience and no one knows what all of us knows and so this is an opportunity to come together and to share your ideas about what you already do, but to do that in a way that's informed by what we can bring from outside of your district from the world of research and analysis. The session that we've designed is divided into five sections, each of which has several, two or three classes, so it's 13 sessions in total. The first basic section of the course or the workshop is focused on big picture issues. It's about how we bring about coherence to the overall agenda and even to the degree that equity is in the title of the session. What do we mean by equity there? We can define equity along several different dimensions. We want to be explicit about what those dimensions are. We want to talk about which ones you might care most about. We want to talk about which ones are currently emphasized most in your district and why. So we want to interrogate the current conversation about equity and come to some shared understandings we hope about the way that you want to think and talk about equity in the district. And then we also want to talk about how we can bring coherence to the overall vision. You've sure been around these conversations for a while and you know that the theme of coherence is one of the main themes that we have these days. Often ranked folks who are not in leadership positions have the feeling that leaders go away to conferences and come back with miscellaneous new ideas that they put on top of the pile.  And so we want to talk about the ways or some of the ways that we can make it clear that each piece of the puzzle fits with the other pieces. And so people have a stronger reason to trust that folks in leadership positions know what they're doing and are leading in a direction that's going to actually take the district someplace. The second section of the course is called Building Local Capacity for Excellence and Equity. The first session there is talking about data use for the purpose of defining priorities. And so it's using data to ask what do we want to do and why do we want to do it. The second session is dealing with the question of who's going to do what and how do they know how to do it. So it's about professional development, setting professional development priorities in ways that help students, help teachers and administrators when necessary to build the skills and orientations to address the issues that the analysis of data. Has led you to identify as priorities. And the third session, which is session five overall, but the third session in the second section of the course is called Identifying Problems of Practice and Constructing Theories of Action. And so it's becoming very specific about the particular kinds of instances in classrooms and in the schools to which people would apply the skills that address the priorities that were identified with the data. And trying to have theories of action, not simply descriptions of disjointed actions that help us to understand the chain of events and the chain of experiences that we want the adults to have in order to provide the experiences to the students that we want the students to have. Now the third section of the workshop, which would be session six and seven, instead of dealing with what people do and why they do it, we're talking more about the who and so far as which teachers do we want to attract and retain, which administrators do we want to attract and retain, what are some of the big issues in hiring, issues in tenure provision, just how, what all the matrix of decisions and issues are that we deal with there and the readings and discussions would help to try to bring us again just like on the other things we talk about to some shared understandings of what the main issues are and how those main issues fit together into a coherent way of addressing these issues. So that in this part of the course, we've dealt with hiring retention issues in the previous part, we will have dealt with professional development and identifying priorities and so on. So you kind of see the way that those relate to one another but serve complementary purposes. The fourth section of the course is called engaging all students and families in schools to enhance learning. And here, what we're trying to do is to think about the differentiation that is necessary in the district strategies to achieve both both excellence and equity. We want to be sure that we're attending to the needs of students at all levels of the achievement hierarchy and students who have also may have different emotional needs and different needs based on their family situations. And so the first section there is on differentiated instruction and personalizing the school. The second section, session there, which is session 9 overall, dropout prevention, student engagement and high school completion. Session 10, home school partnerships with less advantaged families. And session 11, helping parents to strengthen home environments for learning and healthy development. And so particularly section 11 here reminds us that it's not only about what happens in classrooms, we're also trying to get to the place where what people do at home, what parents do at home with their students at the evening after the door is closed. Also add up to a set of things that are supportive of the goals that we have during the school day. And so we will want to talk during this session, section of the workshop or the course on how it is that you see the distinctions across different types of students who might have different needs. What you see as the different, the very strategies and resources that are relevant to address those needs as we will throughout the course we'll be talking, we'll be looking at literature, their readings for every session, their discussion questions for every session. But again, it's about drawing from multiple sources, about drawing from the readings from your experience, from whoever is leading in a faculty position in order to make the most of the opportunity to achieve coherence and shared understandings in a way that's distilled enough to be memorable so that we can actually hold these things in working memory and use them in everyday practice back in the district. Now the final section of the course is called assembling resources. Session 12 is called the politics of school finance and 13 is on school community partnerships. And here these titles tell you exactly what we're talking about. There are decisions to be made about school openings and closings and the allocation of teachers to certain schools and other schools. There are just lots of decisions that have interests connected to them. There are stakeholders whose interests will be affected by the majority perhaps of the resource allocation decisions that have to be made. And the question is how do we conduct that process in a way that people perceive the decisions are being made in a way that's fair and that will allow the district also to effectively achieve the goals that it has. So to summarize, the point is not for those of us who might be leading these sessions to come necessarily and give you the right answers. The point is to have a period where you reflect, where you try to reach some shared understandings, where you identify differences in your team on how you're thinking about things, where you reach some agreement perhaps about the division of labor for some of the things that might need to be done, but where you also come out with some parameters on the way that you're going to think as a community of leaders so that you can go back into your school system with a kind of coherence and also a kind of enthusiasm and positive optimism, a sense of optimism and hopefulness about what you can achieve together. And I'm hoping to be a part of this to help make it be successful and I wish you the best. Thank you.


Hello people! My name is Ginny Meswell and I am a fourth generation witch although I might be a fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, twentieth generation witch but nobody in my family can remember beyond my great grandmother. I practice traditional witchcraft or the old ways as they are known and this is taught to people by my mother, my family, my friends, my coven who are very good. So I study and practice traditional witchcraft or the old ways and so today's video I want to look at that archetypal piece of witch's equipment, the cauldron. Now the reason why I want to do this video is because I've just ordered a cauldron online which turned up this morning. Now I haven't unpacked it yet so I thought we'd do a little bit of unboxing, have a look at what we're going to do with the cauldron, maybe do a spell, give you a little history behind it and tell you what you would do with your cauldron, maybe give you some ideas and we'll discuss the purpose of a cauldron as part of a witch's tools and craft. Now the reason I bought a new cauldron apart from the fact that I never buy anything new for myself is that I have always used my old copper pot which is a natural metal very good in witchcraft however I also use my copper pot as part of cooking and it is sometimes quite generally important to keep your witchy tools separate from your daily use tools. Now the reason is that if I was to create say a love spell in my pot and my copper pot and then go on to cook some strawberry jam the strawberry jam might pick up the remnants of the love spell that's in the pot, the energy from it unless I have properly cleansed it and I don't mean cleaning I mean cleanse the energy of the pot and my spells are particularly harmless in that way I do not ever use my spells to force someone to do something to change their viewpoint I help people come to understand where they want to be and how to get there without forcing other people to change to their tune. So my spells are very unharmful however that is my path and your witchcraft and your path might be slightly different you might be a bit more forceful in your witchcraft and therefore it's really important that you separate your witch's craft tools from your daily use tools and don't mix the two. So just before we get to the unboxing I wanted to tell you about how I chose this vessel I didn't want the traditional cauldron with the tripod legs I needed it to sit on a portable gas fire or a portable stove so that I can you know cook things I also wanted something that I could set down directly on an outdoor fire or hang from a tripod over an outdoor fire so it can be used in lots of different ways it was also important for me to choose a vessel that was made from natural materials now this is important because natural materials and by which I mean wood iron earthenware stone natural materials take on something that a lot of traditional witches call sprowl I'll spell that word for you sprowl I won't spell that word for you I'll say that word for you sprowl sprowl is your earth magic your power your command of energy and everything has a bit of sprout so the earth has sprout in bucket loads animals will have sprout trees nymphs they they all have sprout and when you use something made of a natural substance such as wood or iron or earthenware you are taking that sprout that natural magic that is inherent in that equipment and adding that into your mix of spells which means it's just like a buttery boost of power right let's get to the unboxing I'm so excited I bought it off the internet from a company that doesn't need any more advertising than it already has so I've got a knife let's have a go so excited I never buy anything new for myself especially with regards to being a witch only because I tend to find things in nature and I'm a naturally as tight fisted as the tongue and don't like spending stuff on me so we've got some plastic another box it's not huge but that's just the size I want it because you know potions come and all the shapes and sizes let's get over it and get into this now I'm not very good at opening boxes I tend to tear my nails off in excitement so here we go two absolutely love it is my first impression now this is a Japanese cooking pot my kitchen craft actually and the reason why I chose a Japanese pot is because for many years I had a Japanese spirit guide my Japanese spirit guide was with me for 20 or so years of my life sadly you know we have he's moved on to past is new because we have discussed everything that we needed to discuss with each other although we do still speak and he therefore instilled in me a love of all things Japanese and so this is essentially just a ramen or some such one pot cooking pot but cast iron it's got the two handles so that I can hang it up above a fire and a very lovely wooden lid I'm particularly pleased with this my new purchase now the first thing I normally do when I get something from my craft is to lay my hands upon it and read the object this is called a psychometry psychometry psychometry and it is the reading of an object and taking it as impressions now I don't think I'm going to get many impressions when I tune in because this is a factory built new model so you know it doesn't have a history to tell me however there might be something if you would like me to do a video on how to read objects or psychometry leave me a comment below and we'll see if we can do one so let me have a quick go and see what I get there is some female association with it which I think is the worker who took it out and checked it as that's the impression that I'm receiving and put in this box so this cauldron doesn't have any background embedded into it and that is something that I expected to happen however I do want to make sure that it hasn't picked up any of the negative energy any of the person's hands that it has passed through therefore I'm going to do a quick cleansing now to cleanse an object such as this is really depends on the object now the way I would cleanse my cauldron is to use my pendulum and this pendulum here is the one that I would ask I use the pendulum to find out exactly how my cauldron required cleansing and the arthritis follows the first thing that was required was to wash my new pot in plain water and dry it carefully this is a piece of rose quartz bound with copper wire which I then placed inside the cauldron I also added this piece of chrysanthemum to my cauldron finally using my wand I asked the stone to cleanse the cauldron for me stones will remain in there for an hour or so and then the cleansing is complete a lot of traditional witches would birth their tools now birthing their tools they would go to a large stone with a natural hole in it a bit like one of my hagstones but 40 times the size and they would pass the tool of their trade through the hole in the stone birthing that particular item this would be done on a full moon or a new moon or you'd get your planetary alignments right and birth your cauldron cauldrons were always used and are used by witches of vessels of change so they are a womb of generation or a tomb of consumption as they are traditionally known as so the womb of generation just means that they might generate some magic or they can destroy something else traditional folk history gives them as having a life-giving properties merlin the great wizard of our theory and legend was brought back to life in daggers cauldron by nimwe his witch and helpmate cauldrons have always formed a huge part of british folk history durnax cauldron was one of the 13 treasures of ancient britain the 13 treasures are very simple things like a halter a knife a cauldron a cloak etc etc they were everyday items merlin that great wizard of our theory and legend spent his life finding these 13 treasures of britain and collecting them into one place together so he could use them to ensure albion which is great britain in personification would last forever my favorite magical cauldron of folk history was that of keridman who was a welsh giantess or druidess stories differ she brewed a potion in a cauldron for a year and a day this potion made you clever accomplished and handsome and she wanted it to be used on her son who was none of these things however in a roundabout way this potion then became imbued into the womb of keridwen and she gave birth to talison now talison is a very famous sixth century welsh bard he has made rather wonderful prediction about great britain which i think might be coming true as we speak their lord they shall praise their language they shall keep the land they shall lose except wild wales now i like this because we as britain have given our language to a lot of other cultures and it is considered english the standard language of the world we have lost quite a lot of our land you know ireland is moving further and further away from us as is scotland so we're still sort of keeping wales aren't they i'm not quite sure what about the lord that they shall praise it about but that'll come to us i'm sure let me know in the comments below what you think about this talison was a bard and druid remember so it's one of my favorites this one looked at my cauldron and studied it a bit i think i'm going to do my first spell is i'm going to make a potion in it and this potion is going to be a bathing potion so it's going to be some bath water i'm going to put it in my bath it's going to change me from feeling rather tired and stressed especially with my homeschooling which i'm not very good at too happy and relaxed so this is my spell for a healing bath water salt first of all a large tablespoon for cleansing and protection the next ingredient i'm going to add is a couple of dried bay leaves for purification and healing properties my third ingredient is a rather large slice of an orange for happiness and love and then finally i'm going to add just a few sprinkle of dried nettle which protects against all negative energy this is then covered with some moon water give it a stir and bring to the boil gently simmering the ingredients together for a couple of minutes place on the lid and let it cool slightly and then you can pour it into a bowl this now ready to add to your bath so i do hope you enjoyed this video and if you did let me know in the comments below what you're going to do with your cauldron have i given you any ideas i hope so do give me a subscribe and a thumbs up i'll see you in my next video


Even an 8 out of 10 kind of almost seems low for how good this is. Zara wanted by night. Hey what's up guys this is Josh here I just wanted to do a little review today on a Zara wanted by night. Now a Zara wanted the original was one that I always kind of liked I liked the bottle of it I liked the quality of the juice but it was always so expensive and recently or when I bought this bottle it actually was discounted for a very cheap price I think about 30-35 dollars. When they released wanted by night I definitely did smell it right away and it was one of those ones where it didn't blow me away wasn't something that I needed to get right away people weren't getting these like crazy compliment stories with it but compared to wanted I did enjoy a Zara wanted by night a little more and a lot of people have told me to review it so I'll put some maybe some comments on the screen too. I wrote up a list of pros and a list of cons and then I gave it a full rating and then kind of like my suggestion with it I did write down the notes cinnamon mandarin orange tobacco fruit notes red cedar incense cedar vanilla I get that Zara wanted style DNA kind of tuned up with typical nighttime scent but like a one million of privet in there a little bit of that spice bomb extreme in there even more of like a nighttime style version of the original wanted the pros this is enjoyable and unique there was times where it would smell a little bit like wanted the original but a lot of times it would smell like its own fragrance there would be times where I'm wearing a fragrance I'll forget what I'm wearing for half a second and it's kind of nice because I could judge the fragrance based on the smell alone like I've completely forgot all the name the hype about it I just get to smell it I forget what it is and I'm like do I like that or not I several times I got a smell I'm like I really like that maybe one out of 10 maybe one out of 20 fragrances do I get that smell of like yeah I really like the way that smells like almost that's me in a little bit of a good mood when I smell something I like and that's what I got with this it's unique to a certain extent because it has a lot of that typical kind of nighttime DNA but it also has the Zara wanted in there was a decent amount of uniqueness to the Azora wanted DNA already so this one is kind of like a combination of a good nighttime scent and Azora wanted so it's a little bit unique but at the same time we've smelled one and we've smelled nighttime sense so in that sense it's not going to be groundbreaking but it's very very solid and done very very good very high quality bottle brand name and it's actually very cheap I think I got this between 35 and 40 dollars on eBay and I actually had eBay deal for five ounces of this stuff for 45 bucks so I was like man this stuff really did jump down in price I always enjoy really good cheapy especially one that people know about going into the cons ever since I started doing my pros and cons in my reviews it's been funny that I haven't had too many cons maybe it's because I'm reviewing things that I like I don't really want to do reviews about oh like I just don't like this fragrance and drag it through the mud but since I've started doing pros and cons I haven't had that many cons on very many fragrances some of the only cons with this is that it's not perfect like when I smell this it's not like oh my goodness this I don't think of perfect or near perfect but I do think of very very good not like a seven out of ten or a seven point five out of ten or even eight out of ten kind of almost seems low for how good this is this is very very very good but not perfect and that's what I put it as certain niche fragrances will have that smell of like oh man that's unique or that's luxurious or I haven't smelled that or that's so smooth you know this smells like a very very very good designer scent so it doesn't really smell niche quality it doesn't really smell perfect but I actually really really really enjoy especially for the price range can't really wear it in the day I would go with as our wanted the original for more of a daytime scent and for some reason that the originals are wanted reminded me of a morning I don't know why it was one of the only fragrances that I think of the morning time when I wear it I would give it a smell rating of between an eight to an eight point five maybe just a solid eight point five because I really really do like this one likeability and eight I do think it has a lot of elements that a lot of very likable fragrances have and it is somewhat unique I know that it's our watches gotten me compliments and I know that this kind of nighttime DNA also garners a lot of compliments so very very good I would say the likability is about an eight longevity and projection I would give probably about an eight point five very good for a designer style fragrance usually designer style fragrances this is kind of on the higher end of how long they'll last and I would give it a solid eight point five one of the days I wore it snowboarding one of the places that really just rips a fragrance right off me and I was getting a consistent whips with this one so eight point five for longevity and projection honestly guys I really really recommend checking this one out mainly for the price if it's still this cheap in the future or where you live for about 35-40 dollars I think this is an excellent excellent fragrance this is one that I've actually thought about buying for gifts and things like that it doesn't really have too many weaknesses it is pretty unique it does last a long time it takes a lot of elements from good fragrances and it is cheap let me know what you think of wanted by night down below wanted I didn't like as much in the beginning but it did grow on me because wanted has such versatility in its projection it's not one layer it's got multi layers and that's why I liked wanted and I also like this one if you're looking for more of like a nighttime scent as our wanted by night more of a daytime as our wanted again these fragrances aren't perfect but I think they're well above average I definitely recommend you check them out let me know what you think of this fragrance down below let me know what you think of the video we're on the road to 25,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys's help you guys are the best I'm having a great day out here hopefully having a great day at home see you all in the next video peace


Can you find out how much money any YouTuber makes on any day for free instantly right now? Yes, I think I can. Hello, I'm Neil Mosse and I'll show you this website which seems to have all of our statistics. I'm a development producer and it's my mission to help creators and performers, just like you, to get ideas out of our heads and out onto here on YouTube where we need them. And to prove it, here's actual footage of me standing next to a monitor in a TV studio, sometime, somewhere, working very, very, very hard. So this is the website right here. It's called socialblade.com. I don't think you'd need to even create a login for it to work. And to show you how it works and how easy it is on the top right hand corner here, there's a pull down menu so you can look up anything, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. We're going to stick with YouTube. Let's type in a random name, let's say PewDiePie. And instantly it opens up a page for PewDiePie. On the top banner, this is really humbling. Should we be comparing ourselves to other people? That's for a whole other video. But let's take a look just in the very first statistic. The number of uploads is 4,208. 4,208. Oh my goodness. Leave a comment below. Should we be comparing ourselves at all? Should we even be doing this? I think we should. We'll carry on. It's better to be armed with information, I guess. The number of subscribers is 107 million. It shows you the video views. It takes a guess at the country that you're from. I believe this might be incorrect. I always thought he lived in the UK. And it's got a channel type. I don't know how they guess the channel type. I think it's from the largest number of categories that you have in your videos. I make this channel how-to, but you'll see in a minute it lists me as people. And the dates the channel was created. And down here, right, these are where, oh my goodness, look at these figures. So Social Blade gives you a grade and it has graded PewDiePie as a grade, but only 260 seconds as their Social Blade rank. I've no idea what that is. This is their own ranking system. PewDiePie according to Social Blade is the fourth biggest subscriber in the world and his video views are 19th in the world. So this is quite interesting. PewDiePie is first in the US. Again, doesn't he live in Bryson and isn't he Swedish? I'll have to ask my 11 year old son, but this is understandable. It ranks him as first in the gaming category. I thought DanTDM was there. Maybe not. Now we're going to be putting these statistics to the test in a minute, but Social Blade tells you how many subscribers the channel has gained in the last 30 days. And it takes a crack at estimating what the monthly earnings are for the channel. So I guess this was the title of the video. How much does a YouTuber earn? Social Blade uses its algorithm to take a guess at £556,000 per month for PewDiePie. There's some other statistics here as well. The number of video views for the last 30 days. The total subscribers. Now it looks like there are no subscribers on these weeks, but that's obviously because when you're up at that grade, grade A PewDiePie, the only figure that's released is a whole million. Although it says zero subscribers in that time, it's obviously going up in that time and it's not publicly released by YouTube as a figure until it hits the next one million subscribers. So you can see how frequently he gained another million subscribers. And from the monthly earnings, it takes a guess at the estimated yearly earnings according to socialblade.com. Their estimate is £6.7 million. Oh, it's giving it in pounds. So you might not be watching this in the UK. I wonder if we can change. There we go. I'm just pretending that I'm in the United States thanks to a VPN. $10 million. Socialblade estimates $856,000 a month. $10.3 million a year. Now I don't know why on video views it goes down by 334 million views. There was a glitch a few weeks ago and I think it might be because YouTube was doing some behind the scenes stuff and it does kind of make me feel slightly less confident on how sound these figures are. But I'm going to be testing them in a minute on my own channel. So we'll see how accurate any of this is. The next section on the socialblade.com page is breaking down video views every day. Well, it does more than that. So we've got the date on the left. We've got the number of subscribers that have gone up, but that only goes up by the figures that are released by YouTube. We've got video views. Oh my goodness. So PewDiePie gets about roughly somewhere between 5 and 8 million views a day. This figure next to the green video views is the total number of views ever. So I think isn't that 26 billion views? My maths are a little out. And I get thrown by billions being a thousand million rather than a million million. But I think that's 26 billion views in total. And then on the right hand side, this is this is pretty interesting as well. Estimated earnings. Each day, socialblade estimates that PewDiePie earns about $30,000 per day. The next section down is a nice curvy graph, just to show you an idea of the monthly gained video views for PewDiePie. Oh, by the way, if you want to try this out for yourself, the link is in the description. Don't go there yet. We're going to show you the compare function and I'm going to put my figures in and compare them with the reality of how much I earn so we can see how accurate any of these figures are. The next cool thing you can do with socialblade is this button right in the top right hand corner where it says compare. We can compare YouTube channels and statistics. So the channel we've already put in PewDiePie is in this first box here. In the second box, I'm going to put in my favorite YouTuber, Casey Neistat, and we'll hit compare channels. And instantly it lines them up against each other. On the left, we have PewDiePie in the gaming category. On the right, we have Casey Neistat on the people category. And interestingly, socialblade rates Casey Neistat as B+, Casey Neistat. Now it compares the two channels. So PewDiePie is the red line on this graph. This is for the total number of subscribers. And along the bottom, which is slightly more level than PewDiePie, is Casey Neistat at a mere, what, 14 million subs? I know it's 12 million. But you can see instantly the two channels lined up against each other. The next section down is estimated potential earnings. So it compares those estimates against each other. Socialblade records that PewDiePie is on about $27,000 a day, whereas Mr. Neistat, our friend Casey, is on $5,255 a day, which means monthly that's 833K against 157K. And for the year, whoa, look at that. $10 million for PewDiePie and $1.8 million for Casey Neistat. And on the daily averages for views and subscribers, there's another graph there. But it is useful to see just a sort of ballparky how a channel is doing. I've obviously chosen two really extreme examples. So he's on 1,053 uploads. Do you know what? Of all the metrics, of all the statistics on this page, I think the only one that I'm looking at for me is the number of uploads. Just the only thing I've got to concentrate on right now. And the estimated daily earnings, they kind of fluctuate around the $7,000 per day mark. But how accurate is that? There's only one way to find out. I'm going to put me in the box to see how much money that Socialblade thinks that I'm getting. And maybe I should compare that with what I'm actually getting. We'll be able to see how accurate this mail may not be. So here's my channel. 316 uploads. 2.45,000 subscribers. So it took me two years to get 1,000 subscribers. It took me another six months to get the next thousand. I'm nearly just about to hit the 1 million video views. So I should make a video about that, shouldn't I? Hey, by the way, if this video is at all interesting or helpful, it would really help me and help others to find this if you give it a thumbs up. Obviously, you know how cherished your subscription is.  So Socialblade, I'll keep my picture in there. Socialblade has given me a grade of C plus. Could do better. Weirdly, I got B plus back in February when I had a video that was doing crazy number of views. 1.1 millionth on the Socialblade rank in the world. 1.3 millionth in the most number of subscribers. According to this, I'm the 77,000th YouTuber in the UK. So proud of that. It's put my channel type as people, which is a shame because I think for the last year I've been choosing how to for my videos. Right now, here's an interesting thing. It's that it thinks that my monthly earnings are $171 a month. According to my YouTube studio dashboard, I'm pulling in $247 per month. I don't know how representative my channel is and it really isn't. It's a very broken poor little channel. But Socialblade's estimate is that I earn $171 a month and I don't. I do actually earn near a $250 at the moment. Yeah, 247. So let's take a look at the daily figures over on Socialblade. It's saying that my video views average about $1,500 a day and that's absolutely correct. Yeah, this is pretty much what I get every two days at the moment. That's $2,800, $1,400 a day and Socialblade have got those figures absolutely accurate. I don't know why it suddenly drops $1,700 on Friday. I think there's some kind of data correction going on with YouTube at the moment, which is why you get these weird negative figures. The number of subscribers, this column here is absolutely accurate. That is exactly what's going on. I get about 10 subscribers every other day. The estimated earnings, this is like the really crucial one and it's probably what's throwing off that monthly figure. Socialblade reckons, I'm getting about $6 or $7 a day. But if I go over to my analytics in my YouTube studio, I'll run the cursor across. You see, every day I'm getting sort of about $8, $8, $10, $9. I'm getting lots of 8s, 9s, 10s, 12s. So it's slightly off. These estimated earnings, they're slightly lower and I don't know, maybe I'm getting a crazy CPM at the moment or RPM, the cost per thousand. Maybe mine's slightly higher than Socialblade. I'm certainly not getting $0.38 per day. I'm getting nearer $8 a day. So these figures are slightly off. If you're monetized, maybe you might want to have a look at Socialblade, let me know in the comments if this is slightly off for you too. It'd be really interesting to know how your earnings compare with Socialblade's estimate of your earnings. I know I shouldn't be doing this now, but I've hit the compare button. Go ahead and type in KC9 stat. This is the only time ever my name will appear next to PewDiePie and KC9 stats. So in the left corner, we've got C plus, Neil Mosey, we've got B plus, KC9 stats and an A grade PewDiePie. Look at this graph. I do not even get off the zero mark. But if you do want to, you know, do some light psychological damage by comparing yourself to people who have made literally thousands more videos than you have, Socialblade.com is exactly the place you want to go right now. The link is in the description. Down here is my full story of how much money I'm earning at the moment. And up here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next.


The Secretary of Defense has directed sort of two reviews, one on the nuclear weapon enterprise, and the Navy and the Air Force are going to do that because they make up the predominance of the nuclear weapons enterprise. Now for us, we'll look at our personnel programs, how we bring people into the nuclear weapons program, how we certify them, train them, and the personnel reliability program, and that's about maintaining proficiency and certification, actually, to be one that works around nuclear weapons. Now we'll look at previous studies, the Schlesinger Report of a few years ago, the Donald Report of a few years ago. We took on some of those actions. The question is, how are we doing? And then we'll look out to the future to make sure that we have the values embedded into the fiber of those programs. Secondly, and this is still kind of being put together, as a result of some of these examples, unfortunate examples out there in the fleet and in the Air Force, we're going to look at our values, at our integrity, at our character, and make sure that we're not talking past each other. We're not just talking, but we're actually talking with each other to understand the foundation integrity.


Well welcome everyone. We're incredibly excited to have this important conversation about why we need nature now and what that has to do with investing. For those of you who I haven't met yet, my name is Ahmed Borg. I'm the CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network. I'm very honored to moderate this panel. We have a wonderful panel here representing a variety of perspectives on an incredibly important topic. I'll give a very brief intro to our panelists and set the stage a bit for the conversation before bringing Charlotte in to give some framing comments and we'll dive into the discussion. But first, our panelists, we have a lot of wonderful perspectives that represent very different vantage points on this conversation about the role of nature and how it connects to investing. First we have Charlotte Kaiser, who's Managing Director of the NatureVest Impact Investing Team, which is part of the Nature Conservancy, a very well-known global environmental nonprofit that has more than 4,000 employees. NatureVest has helped us structure and close 12 transactions to date and that represents about $1.3 billion of committed capital. We also have Janie Matthew, who's a Senior Impact Analyst and Earth Pillar Lead at Aviva Investors, which is an insurance company and also a global asset manager that's part of the insurance company. Aviva Investors manages nearly $500 billion in assets and it's part of the UK's largest insurance company. Last but not least, we have Oliver Withers, who is the Biodiversity Lead within the Sustainability Strategy, Advisory, and Finance Group at Credit Suisse. He works to integrate biodiversity considerations into the firm's business activities and decision-making. Now, as we approach this conversation and before we hear from the panelists, I did want to just give a couple of remarks about how important this conversation is on a few different levels. There's obviously a lot of interest in the environment and when it comes to investing, there's growing momentum around the need to focus on environmental considerations and environmental impact. However, much of that attention, the way many people see the role of the environment when it comes to investing is starting with a big picture of the environment, then falling down to climate, and then really focusing on greenhouse gas emissions. Now, that's incredibly important and we don't have enough activity working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions where we stand today and it's very critical that we get more investor engagement on that issue given the nature of the climate crisis that we face. The climate crisis isn't the only environmental crisis that we're contending with. We also have a crisis of ecological loss and in the loss of nature and that's something that we're increasingly seeing coverage of in the news and many people are experiencing viscerally in their own communities, whether it's loss of species, damage to the environment more broadly, disruption of ecosystems, and all kinds of effects and implications of those changes. Now, it's incredibly important for us to address that crisis as well and I think part of what I hope this conversation could be part of is helping to elevate the significance of nature on the radars of investors and also help to demonstrate how some leading actors are incorporating biodiversity into their strategies and approaches. And so I think we're going to have an incredibly important conversation and I want to invite Charlotte just to share from her perspective at The Nature Conservancy some of this kind of like broader framing before we dive into the discussion. Great to be with all of you today. I'm really excited about this conversation and also candidly a little bit dismayed that we're the only panel really talking about investing in biodiversity when we consider the depth of the crisis and the the extent of the impact that that's the severe biodiversity loss that we're facing is going to have on our well-being. The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends and that includes us. The ecological systems which represent the natural capital that we're going to talk about today are really what's required for thriving life on earth, including thriving human life and we learned this year right the impact that nature can have on human well-being through zoonotic pandemics and the advent of the novel coronavirus which has transformed how we live. We learned this year how interconnected all of us are through nature because of that pandemic and we learned this year that the economics of our of our life can transform in an instant because of a natural phenomenon. And so I think you know this conversation has never been more urgent or more critical and while it's definitely the case that we need all hands on deck in this crisis and the investment community is only one player on the field it's a very powerful and important one and I know that my colleagues Oliver and Nijini have a lot of really important insights into how they as an investors are transforming their work and how and we at Nature Vesta are working across the investor spectrum to help others do the same. So thanks for being here everyone. Okay thank you Charlotte and I wanted to really start with that focus on the you know kind of the role of investors and you know in just a level set I think we have some people in the audience who do a lot of work around biodiversity I think we also have some we're coming here to learn so just to help us set the stage you know I'd love to hear each of you just talk a little bit about like how why investors should care about biodiversity you know and but from both sides of the equation how does it impose risks to investors but also where are their opportunities and Charlotte if you could start and then I'll work my way around the group but you know we'd love to hear kind of how you see this as an investment strategy and why you see other investors you know caring about these issues. Yeah that's exactly the frame we think about this Ahmed it's not thinking about biodiversity creates a lot of risk and thinking about it creates a lot of opportunity. There's a group Planet Tracker that does a lot of research around kind of natural capital and economics and I was speaking to one of the partners there a while ago and they were doing some research into the percentage of sovereign GDP that rely on natural capital and the example that the partnership with me is Argentina which doesn't hold a lot of foreign currency reserves issues a lot of sovereign debt and doesn't hold those reserves because of the kind of huge influx of dollars that comes into the country every year from key industries like tourism wine and beef. Do you think for a second about the natural capital underpinning those three sectors you quickly realize that there's a huge amount of risk associated with Argentine sovereign debt and I'm not just picking on Argentina but it's just a good clean example around those natural systems and the absence of safeguards protecting them really really creates risk that investors need to be underwriting a little bit more thoughtfully. On the opportunity side there's we've done a lot of work in forest management with our Cumberland Forest project and we've recently launched a collaboration with BTG, Pactuals, Trimbleland Investment Group kind of amplifying that work. Managing forests for biodiversity impacts and climate resilience really helps to drive a more resilient asset base that can create a lot of co-benefits that have some in some cases have revenues associated with them and in other cases really just underpin a much more resilient local economy. For example, managing for outdoor recreation starts to diversify the economic base of the community out of natural resource extraction which we're doing in the Cumberlands. So there's both downside mitigation and upside generation available and I think we can carefully about these assets. Okay thanks for that Charlotte and I think I'd also love to hear Eugenie how you think about it you know working for a global asset manager how is biodiversity factoring into your work and is it you know how do you make the case to investors whether they're colleagues or external partners about the need and the opportunity. Thanks. I think that the way we're looking at it is that the statistics of the places start and scientists are now saying we're entering the phase of the sixth grade extinction. The last was when the dinosaurs died out and the WWF data shows that globally we've had a 68% drop in species numbers since 1970. That is just massive 68% drop since 1970 and another expression I've been working on on a project I've been working on is if there's no nature there's no business we can't operate without nature. All of nature underpins what business does so the risks are existential. Another example on top of Argentina that also comes from Planet Tracker which I think is a useful recent one is Brazil and the deforestation is changing Brazil's climate. It's making it drier, hotter and less predictable. Brazil is the number two exporter of soil in the world and number three exporter of maize and this huge output depends on its ability to double crop so using the same farmland twice in a year and double cropping depends on a stable climate with consistent rainfall and temperature patterns and deforestation is destabilizing that so there are another lots of other examples like the the Australian Great Barrier Reef and the huge amount of economic contribution that makes the Australian economy every year but NASA has estimated that the coral reefs around Australia will just become non-existent if we have two degrees of warming and if they just disappear what will that do to the Australian economy so the financial risks are massive and as a result of that we're seeing other shifts which pose you know more imminent impacts to business like changing regulation and changing consumer habits and just some examples of some new regulation that's coming through is in the UK we've got new legislation requiring companies to do due diligence to make sure there's no illegal deforestation in their supply chain we've also got a new tax on virgin plastic use in packaging so it's going to be comparatively more expensive to use virgin rather than recycle content in plastic the EU farm to fork strategy has set targets to half pesticide use and reduce fertiliser use by 20% and there's increasing regulation a likelihood of regulation in the US and other countries on PFAS chemicals hazardous chemicals the forever chemicals that accumulate in our environment the dascopter review which is a seminal review in Britain led by the the UK government commission treasury interesting with the treasury and not other departments commissioned a report on the biodiversity and economic impacts and he came up with lots of ideas for new taxes for example for tax on people using the oceans for fishing shipping and cruise ships and if companies like that are all companies take advantage of nature to the degree but some of them their business model is very dependent on taking advantage of nature and it's a free resource and if I think that needs to change and so we I think we'll be seeing more in the way of resource taxes and access to nature taxes so that's obviously risk and opportunity for business thirdly the changing consumer expectations I just give one example of meat and there's been increasing recognition in europe and america that a low reducing our meat consumption is good not only for human health but also for the environment and alternative in in britain meat consumption has dropped 17 per cent per capita in the last decade which is quite a significant drop and so we're seeing huge growth in alternative meat products and although they only take up one percent of the global meat demand today they're expected to see 15 percent growth over the next 10 years to become a 50 billion market by 2030 and people will have heard of beyond meat which has seen its revenues grow 12-fold in the last three years so there are lots of risks and opportunities for companies and another example of the opportunities is I always find it amusing that these figures weren't produced by green NGO but by world economic forum which is behind Davos and sort of all the the big cheeses every year in switzerland and they've said that if we become nature positive there are three sectors where we critical shifts are needed to become nature positive and if we make these shifts there'll be 10 trillion dollars worth of business opportunities and 395 million jobs by 2030 and these shifts include ecosystem restoration more efficient and circular use of resources densification of the urban environment so I think we're seeing these sort of big existential risks plus the response which will be the changes in regulation changes in consumer habits leading to these great opportunities for business. No thanks for that I want to come back to some of that that compelling data that you cited from the World Economic Forum but before I do so you know all of our lovely year take you know working at a major global bank you know how do these you know biodiversity considerations factor into the operations of the bank and then how do you see you know the case being made to investors that you work with. Yeah thanks Sam it's I mean just to you know second everything that Charlotte and Eugenia have said there's that macro risk and the micro risk and the reality is that as a as a global bank we operate across multiple jurisdictions biodiversity is is quite strange and that it is it's very distinct according to geographies which makes standardization quite challenging but it does mean that we know that certain markets are going to have more exposure than others and dependency on biodiversity and Eugenia you know reference the the overall kind of loss in species abundance that we've seen since 1970 and the challenge is is that when we look at at particular sub markets regions we start picking up that there are unfortunately some cases where 64 percent would be a best case or good case if you will so I think for us it's about understanding that the landscape in which we as a financial institution operate in is changing and that means that we need to change with that and you know as much as as we are doing transactions that are short-term in nature the reality is that those transactions are driven by our client base and our client base is long-term in nature and so when the those macro conditions start impacting the micro i.e. our clients that's a long-term challenge and it's not just a long-term challenge for us as a bank it's a long-term challenge for all of banking right so collectively we all have a responsibility here to to drive that change that's necessary but as Charlotte and Eugenia have alluded to I mean that's also you know generates a lot of opportunity we're seeing disruptors right innovation come to market where that is attracting capital and that's really exciting where we're seeing if you will environmental entrepreneurs and we need more of those quite frankly but that's another opportunity and you know as a as a bank that prides itself on backing entrepreneurs that's an exciting opportunity for us going forward but at the end of the day I mean you know we all operate in this global economy and we need both the micro and macro to be stabilized and I think that's why you see the institutions like the IMF coming out now and recognizing the importance of nature there is this this massive role in terms of short-term stabilization but also long-term economic growth and that's why for us you know mainstreaming biodiversity and our decision making is absolutely critical and ensuring first and foremost that we are accounting for the risks to biodiversity but also the risks that biodiversity loss creates for our clients and ultimately for us but you know it's a huge opportunity in that this all of our economies need to transition and that transition needs financing and it needs solutions and ultimately we're a bank interested in doing transactions and financing that transition great knowing and I want to you know I'll come back to you in a moment Eugenia about you know to respond to this but you want to pick up on some of the themes that we've surfaced already so we've talked about macro risk and what this means for the global economy we've talked about micro risk and how you know there's specific industries in the national or local contexts that are reliant upon nature whether it was the examples from Argentina that Charlotte referenced or some of the examples from Brazil and we can see this all around the world around sensitivities of agricultural and food systems you know to reliance upon nature so we've talked about the risk side and Eugenia shared some of the opportunity side that was surfaced by the the nature positive report coming out of the World Economic Forum about a you know 10 trillion dollar opportunity just you know by focusing on three areas certainly a conveniently round number but nonetheless one thing that certainly gets the attention about the magnitude of opportunity that we're looking at and yet we all find that there's not enough attention being paid with this from investors and and that's kind of how we kicked off so can we talk a little bit about what's holding investment back you know as you engage with you know colleagues and your firms or and you know external partners what do you see getting in the way of more investment to help you know to be nature positive or to help you promote biodiversity Eugenia if we can start with you well firstly the slightly negative is that you know if you're an investor and you want to look at investment opportunities to restore nature I'm not aware of a large-scale investment opportunity that generates an income it's as simple as that if you want to restore nature you have to pay to do it you're not going to get an income back from it so I think that's going to change in future I think governments are going to realize that to restore nature that we need to tax the activities that are harmful to nature and spend that revenue that tax revenue on on funding the restoration of nature secondly if you want to look at companies and we've been developing a natural capital strategy this year and we want to we've got three strands we're avoiding companies who are doing significant harm so we're screening out companies that are involved in intensive agriculture over a certain proportion of their their revenues and also companies that got a certain they were a certain proportion of their revenues from pesticides and companies have got strong environmental controversies and they've got high involvement in fossil fuels so first of all avoiding harm secondly solution revenues so companies making products or services that are offering solutions to the the destruction of natural capital so we're looking technologies and approaches and products like regenerative agriculture water treatment alternatives to plastic packaging ways to make to reduce the amount of water used huge different numbers of technologies but they're all fairly nascent and they will do provide very small proportions of overall corporate revenue for the big publicly listed companies that we're looking at and then the third strand is that we look at transition what we call transitioning companies so we're trying to identify leaders and potential leaders companies who are reducing they're doing the most to reduce their impacts and setting ambitious targets and have good strong biodiversity policies policies strong zero deforestation policies to really focus on reducing their deforestation and their supply chain but we have had many challenges in developing the strategy number one is the lack of data there is no equivalent of co2 one fantastic indicator that you can compare all companies you know i'm looking to compare 3 000 companies that's what most is in my spreadsheet if i can do that on co2 i can see who's emitting the most and who's got the strongest targets to reduce those emissions there is no equivalent indicator for nature and that's under development but the problem is is that we have so many different impacts on water, air, soil, land use change and every sector has different impacts so for me if i'm trying to compare a bank to a beverage company a bank i'd be looking probably most importantly at its zero deforestation policy whereas for a beverage company i'd be looking at where is it sourcing its its ingredients from what's its packaging reduction policy and its water use so it's got three completely different impacts from a bank so you couldn't you couldn't ever really compare them on the same indicators and now the only real indicators that we have available to us for 3 000 companies even that this is patchy is water use and amount of waste generated and i would argue that actually those are almost irrelevant indicators to compare 3 000 companies on because the water use depends on where you are and the amount of waste generated depends on how also where you are how it's disposed of and how toxic it is and various different things so we have a big problem with the lack of data and there's a huge amount of initiatives underway to improve that situation to encourage companies to report better about the task force for nature related financial disclosure and the SBTN initiative of the science-based targets for nature so hopefully in two or three years we're going to see better data coming through for companies which will enable investors to make better decisions and finally in terms of barriers i think it's also just the company's attitude is it's also a really big issue because unlike with fossil fuels where if you reduce your fossil fuel use you can save money if you reduce your impacts on nature it does generally tend to cost you more nature is free to destroying it is free in almost all situations so companies are reluctant obviously to increase their costs but luckily with the changing regulations and changing consumer demand there's just not going to be acceptable very much longer to continue the destruction of nature and we've seen this example with the Brazilian meatpacking companies that the the three biggest cattle processing companies in Brazil made a commitment in 2010 to eradicate deforestation from their supply chain by 2020 and they they focused on they can prove that how much deforestation goes in on the supplies they buy directly from but each cow will go through five or six farms before the point it's slotted and the deforestation will occur on those first five farms it may not occur on the sixth farm and that's who the company is buying from so they say oh well you know we have no deforestation because they don't know where it comes from and at the moment they just say oh it's too expensive for us to track the cattle through the farms um and even though Uruguay has a system that does it for all cattle it's too expensive for Brazil because it's bigger and therefore it can't be done whereas I think that this is a small example this would be just becoming big standard cost of doing business in the future that that not knowing traceability and the origins of your products will not be acceptable in future and one example I'd like from my own experience was when I started working with a British clothing retailer that's now the biggest clothing retailer in Britain 15 or 20 years ago they had they just started looking at social issues labour standards in their supply chain and they had employed one person two days a week to look at finding all the child labour and slave labour and forced labour and all the human rights abuses in 2000 factories and we were advising them and said I think that one person two days a week might not be enough and they said oh you don't understand you know we couldn't possibly increase the cost of doing business you know we sell a t-shirt for five pounds where do you think the money is going to come from to do all this checking and now I think it might be 20 years later they have 145 people full-time working on this and that's just the employees of the company and they're still making money they're still making all money than they've ever made before and they're also employing employing legions of armies of verifiers and auditors who go to all the factories to check so I like to think that that parallel will happen with traceability of high high impact commodities too and it will just become integrated into the cost of doing business and what's just generally expected. Thank you for this tonight and Charlotte I'm going to come to you in a moment about this point that Eugenia raised around revenue streams connected to restoring nature but before I do so Oliver I'd love to get your take as well you know what do you see holding investors back why don't we see more capital flowing in a nature positive way. Yeah I mean listen let me just start the data and regulatory comments from Eugenia I second completely huge huge challenges but as she's outlined we are making strides to address those it might not be as quick as some of us would like but there is progress and that's really exciting. I think a practical challenge that we face is is just that sometimes we forget that that biodiversity is complex right we are Eugenia alluded to this we don't have a simple metric we've got eight million species plus we're still finding them unfortunately we're losing them at a pretty rapid rate as we've discussed already and a kind of challenge that emerges is that with that requires some degree of innovation and that doesn't always fit investors mandates or buckets right and so you know ultimately there will be a fund what is that funds mandate what is the particular client looking for does it tick boxes and you know we forget that in many instruments that there's been an opportunity for those instruments to grow over time and really evolve over time and for the market to evolve over time with it right so if we consider how green bonds sustainability link bonds have have emerged as a force that has taken time and you know we're now taking a topic that's really complex and and trying to to mainstream it and fast track it as quickly as possible and sometimes that complexity is difficult to to do that quickly also we've got a responsibility here right that we want this market to be a success this asset class as some people refer to it that means we can't afford failures if you will and I think we're all well aware of of greenwashing allegations and and the severe risk that presents to the market not to individual companies but to the market as well and you know Charlotte rightfully pointed out at the beginning of this it's great to be in this forum discussing biodiversity but it's also a bit concerning that this is the only session really focusing in on this right so you know I do think that complexity makes it difficult to fit with investor mandates sometimes and so you sometimes need brave investors right and we need to applaud those people more as well I think also we've got to manage expectations you know we've alluded to the future possibilities and sizes of the market but again it's going to take time to get there and maybe sometimes in our enthusiasm to try and kind of share the cool aid out we can overestimate the maturity of the market you know and you've got to be careful what you wish for because I think we are at somewhat of a turning point in the market and you know serious institutional investors are starting to knock at the door saying we want to discuss biodiversity and that's what we've all been wanting now we've we've got a soul for these discussions which is really exciting and then just the final point is that I think this question of legality of natural capital right we we know natural capital provides ecosystem services it provides climates mitigation and adaptation and it's creating all these benefits crew owns those benefits is not clear in some instances right which means that the the cash flow is that those those services generate it's not always clear who who should be the beneficiary of those and I think it's really really important I go back to this this comments I had earlier around the geographic nature of of biodiversity in nature we have to acknowledge local communities in many instances have rights to to that natural capital as well and so as much as we look for cookie cutter approaches sometimes those those aren't the solutions that we look for and so how do we solve for that legality question and you know it raises this big question for me where is the balance sheet of natural capital and that's why the you know the work that charlotte and and tnc do around the get swaps for sovereigns is so important because it creates an overarching framework under which we as corporates or our clients all have to operate so you know that legality and that sovereign ownership is a challenge but thankfully we are with these solutions and we're starting to see them deployed and that resonates and I think one thing I am here learn clear that I would have this issue and kind of highlighted more I'm at this venue I think one thing I did want to share is that one of the few trips I've made since we've you know been you know living with pandemic was actually just a few weeks ago to singapore to attend an event and to speak at event hosted by domestic called the ghost parody is a three-day event and then a whole day focused on nature and so one of one was focused on climate action one was nature and then one in more broadly and sustainable finance so I just share that only to underscore the fact that this is I think you know maybe unevenly but this is starting to kind of rise on the agenda of you know investors and financiers we're trying to think about you know how to invest in a sustainable world but I also do think that it kind of underscores one of things that's been raised here that you know for many communities they're recognizing that their economies are very reliant upon nature and so if they don't start to address this crisis it'll have profound effects on broader economic stability beyond just what we directly associate with the kind of parks and forests and other things that we all enjoy but you know there's this question of course any investment needs a revenue model and a business model and and I think I wanted to ask you charlotte about kind of where do you see you know to this point about like you know are the revenue models associated with their storm nature kind of how do you design things that allow this to be investable yeah it's a great question and I'm seeing a comment in the chat uh too from lost it um about that um but uh I fundamentally use Jamie's right there there isn't nobody's going to pay you to kind of not cut down trees at the same time you know and this is the role that nature conservancy and nature vests are playing in our kind of conservation advisory work with partners like UTG and renewable resources group is there are ways of doing business that can deliver biodiversity outcomes in a way that where where financial returns are either enhanced or not impacted um one of the things one of the deals we've done in at nature vests is within the marie darling basement in australia where we are buying and selling water rights but also in years of greater water abundance being a buyer for nature and delivering water back into wetlands that would otherwise not be receiving them because of the engineer nature of the um watershed there at this point and so we're we're basically addressing a market failure where there is no buyer for nature but there is sufficient water in the system in these in these kind of hydrological boom years to really significantly impact wetlands for the good uh so it's it's interventions like that that require some scientific and technical expertise um which the nature conservancy is able to provide and and i'm eugenia your story of the the company that's um gone from two to 150 staff thinking about um you know work conditions i'd like a future where every limited partner is asking a fund manager who's your conservation advisor ensuring biodiversity impacts um because that you know i think there's a real role for that because i to your point all over the complexity uh really can scare investors away and even the bravest of investors are stymied um by by figuring out how to how to price biodiversity risk and value biodiversity returns um you know more more directly right managing fisheries well managing forests well managing other forms of kind of working natural capital well improves their their uh health and therefore increases their value right it's a it's a long term versus a short term perspective um which i think again you know partners like the nature conservancy can help investors uh deliver but we do to Oliver's point really need more brave investors i think one of the other things that's really holding investors back is the novelty of the kinds of structures that are required for this work and the change you know the the thinking that got us here is not going to get us out of here and and investors definitely don't like novelty and impact definitionally requires it um and i know no one believes this more than you uh and so that's a piece that i i'm really you know asking investors to me um can i clarify what i'm what i meant before i'm i'm i meant that there's no income stream from restoration projects there's definitely income to be gained from green companies that are reducing their impacts on nature so sustainable forestry but i meant actual restoration so tree planting when you're not cutting them down and restoring wetlands and restoring peatlands and that's what i was referring to you and also for a large investor like us who invests quite a large amount of money and we don't really do venture capital size investments we're looking for big you know mainly public companies that's what i meant no thanks thanks for clarifying and and just building on this point that that charlotte rays and you know all of her spoke to this as well about you know investors want to see things that they understand at you know i am we at the gin we have over 350 firms that are members they include folks like like the nature conservancy as well as huge global institutions like credit suice and and insurance companies pension funds and others i'll remember a panel back when we had in-person panels um one of the cio one of our members is yeah it's a big global insurance company you manage several hundred billions of dollars and very interested in like committed impact investing they've moved several billion dollars into it and the cio is very clear he was like i like four for fifth time funds you know he was like i'm not looking for the new innovative thing he's like i just like things he's like and he's like nothing against him he's like that's just what we can process and you know he's like so we're looking for opportunities that are that mature um obviously that is um you know a lot of these strategies if they're more innovative models that require going to departures from conventional structures um we need folks like him and others to be you know open to and thinking about you know different ways of deploying capital um and that brings me my last question that will kind of go around we we um are running out of time i'm quickly getting some keeping an eye on and you know how we can bring this to a close while covering such a um you know so much content so much kind of territory but this question of like you know what's needed to scale like where do you see opportunities and what would it you know take to get us from where we are today um to where we need to be and and the one one of the good kind of glimmers of hope that i see um as i you're engaged with our global network um as i actually see this coming up on the radar is a lot more invested than we're talking about it even just a year ago um many of our members that focus on financial inclusion or focus on like you know climate strategies are now talking about the need to be more around nature-based solutions or natural capital strategies and you know there's various terms that are coming up um but i think it's a positive sign and so i think the moment upon us is to figure out how do we channel that interest and momentum um into more activity um so it's all order um but i think a good note for us to finish on um and we'll we'll go quickly around the virtual room um Eugenia if you could start and talk a little where do you see the opportunities and what do you what do you think is essential to getting more skill i think um the companies who are doing exciting things in this area with exciting products and services will see a huge growth just like we've seen in renewable energy companies and that will be that will speak for itself people will be drawn towards it and um that will be one thing i think we'll see um great momentum coming out of initiatives like the TCTC TNFD and the SBTN um that will catalyze action we've got the couldn't main conference next year but we'll draw attention to this whole issue um and i'm hoping that there will be more attention paid to this because this concept of taxing uh resources and it's so that the use of nature the destruction nature is no longer free and that we see um um things like red meat and and and and the oceans and use of free resources um that the the economic model has changed so that um that is what's taxed and not actual employment or other public goods um so that's what i'd like to see now thank you and oliver um from your perspective kind of where you seen client demand and what do you think is needed to to scale i mean i think the client demand at the moment is pretty broad right yeah you've got some some some players that have got very niche requirements but that's driven by their personal connections to nature very often right um i think that the the exciting prospect on the horizon is that when we look at uh at the regulatory environment and improving uh to the benefit of nature uh that's going to increase the valuation of nature and you know the reality is is that if we can look at companies that aren't necessarily generating a profit and we can put a value on their equity for their future profits we can start having similar thoughts and discussions around the future value of biodiversity rights and i think that that opens up a really interesting conversation around how do we start value right by this thing today uh acknowledging that we might actually only be able to extract the value from it in the future just like a lot of companies do um so that for me is that one of the really exciting prospects okay thank you and then charlotte you'll get the um the final word we're from the panel say a couple things to close out but but i know you work on this issue all the time um and it's part of your mandate nature best what do you think is needed to scale i think we're getting there i just worry it's not fast enough uh the the examples that we've been able to develop uh in our in our ocean financing the sec you know team in our in our partnership with renewable resources group in our collaboration with DTG we're showing that you know capital can be deployed at scale and the hundreds of millions of dollars in ways that really deliver the benefits for nature that are measurable and meaningful uh what we need now is for everybody to kind of do the same um and i think it's going to be a combination as Eugenie said of this is the winning strategy i mean that i think is the main takeaway that all of us feel right for for this panel is get on the train because it's leaving the station and you're going to be stuck behind in a sort of desolate world otherwise and so this is the winning strategy and it's really on us um in our role to create examples and pathways for investors uh and for the entrepreneurs and the clients to to offer those opportunities as well great thank you well and you um you brought up this topic too that we didn't really get into but around measurement um and it came up early in the conversation um it's a huge topic and i did want to just let folks know that um the impact to measurement and management systems can support to just launch some initial strategies on biodiversity um i'll i'll put the link in the the chat if you um you want to check it out but it's um open to public comment and we'd love feedback and um your thoughts um but that that is another big topic that's really important this conversation as we close this out though um i do want to thank our panelists for sharing their perspective this is an incredibly important topic um i think this is the big environmental crisis that isn't getting enough attention um but hopefully you know will um but the question is time um and you know making sure that we rise to this occasion and move with sufficient speed um as charlotte said one thing i hope everyone in the audience sees themselves as a role as an advocate and amplify our first conversation we need many more investors thinking about these issues we need a lot of problem solvers working on these topics and ultimately we need to change the way that people think about the relationship between our economy and nature um and to one that is nature positive uh with economy can actually help and investment and help enhance our ecological systems on all around the world so thank you all for joining us um and uh i hope you continue to focus on these issues thanks and take care


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