🌍On this #WorldFoodSafetyDay, let's reflect on the vital role of biodiversity in ensuring safe & nutritious food for all.🌱
Preserving diverse species & ecosystems enhances our ability to maintain a secure & healthy food supply.
More with @WHO⬇️
who.int/campaigns/world-food…
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Happy #WorldFoodSafetyDay 🍎🥦🌽
Access to sufficient amounts of safe food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health.
That’s why #FoodSafety is essential and everyone’s responsibility.
📷@WHO & @FAO
Learn more⬇️
un.org/en/observances/food-s…
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💥#HappeningNow:
@IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie was pleased to meet with Mukhtar Babayev, Minister of Ecology & Natural Resources for Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 to strengthen collaboration #ForNature.
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#DYK About 90% of seabirds examined today have plastic in their gut? 🌊🐦
Plastic pollution is escalating, accumulating in the oceans at alarming rates and touching every person’s life.
@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
🎥 Learn more w/ @UNDP 👇
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After the 2nd author meeting for the #TransformativeChange Assessment, the Co-Chairs and Coordinating Lead Authors stayed on longer to also work on the Summary for Policymakers.✍️
Thank you for all your work #ForNature! 🌱
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Pollution is one of the 5 main direct drivers of #biodiversity loss.
This year's #WorldEnvironmentDay centers around global efforts to #BeatPlasticPollution.
💡See below 5 facts about plastic from @UNDP ⬇️
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🌍🌿Healthy ecosystems can provide 37% of the mitigation needed to limit global temperature rise. Damaged ecosystems release carbon instead of storing it. ⤵️
More on #BiodiversityClimateScience:
📗 ipbes.net/events/ipbes-ipcc-…
#BiodiversityMatters #ClimateAction #ForNature
📷@UN
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Environmental frameworks such as the Paris Agreement on #ClimateChange & the #SDGs can help to reduce environmental risks.🌏
But the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment also found that we need transformative change to achieve them.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
📗ipbes.net/global-assessment
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Negative impacts on the planet & people are becoming more profound as exposure to plastic pollutants intensifies.🐟
-@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
It's time to step up action to #BeatPlasticPollution for #WorldEnvironmentDay & every day.
💡Get involved: worldenvironmentday.global/g…
@UNEP
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✨Watch these juvenile shrimp scad swimming close to a jellyfish to escape the predatory trumpetfish lurking nearby.
#DYK the shrimp scad feed on the leftovers from the jelly until they are large enough to venture into the open ocean?
🎥@NatureIs_Lit
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