2022年，我帮助推动通过了保护生物多样性的国际协议。战争和经济压力会让自然显得像是‘可有可无’的东西。但它是一项关键资源，而生物多样性大会第十七次会议（Cop17）必须交付真正的行动。
In 2022, I helped push through the international agreement to protect biodiversity. Wars and economic pressures can make nature seem like a ‘nice-to-have’. But it is a critical asset, and Cop17 must deliver real action When I was five, property developers came to cut down the woods behind my home in La Tuque, Quebec.
当我五岁时，房地产开发商来砍伐我魁北克拉图克家后面的树林。我的母亲鼓励我爬上其中一棵树进行抗议，然后当开发商要求她把我拉下来时，她直截了当地告诉他们，她无能为力。几天之后，那棵树还是被砍倒了。
My mother encouraged me to climb one of the trees in protest, then told the developers, straight-faced, that there was nothing she could do when they asked her to get me down. A few days later, the tree was cut down anyway.
2022年12月蒙特利尔寒冷清晨的凌晨时分，我在想着那棵树，当时全球近200个国家达成协议，锤子落下，旨在到2030年停止并扭转自然的损失。我想到自然对我们的健康、粮食安全和经济有多么重要，但也想到人们保护它的热情有多高，以及它激励全世界人们的力量。
I thought about that tree in the early hours of a freezing Montreal morning in December 2022, as the gavel came down on a global agreement between nearly 200 countries to halt and reverse the loss of nature by 2030. I thought about how important nature is for our health, our food security and our economies, but also how much passion there is around protecting it, and how it has the power to inspire people all around the world.