Former @IPBES Chair and @IPCC_CH Chair Sir Bob Watson discusses the importance of tackling the issues of #biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange together, to achieve a sustainable future for people and for planet.
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@IPBES experts in Washington testify before the US Congress House of Representatives on the #GlobalAssessment
@NatResources @NRDems
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Les #abeilles 🐝 facilitent la #biodiversité et la vie sur la 🌎
Aujourd'hui, la secrétaire exécutive de l'@IPBES Anne Larigauderie participe au sein des universités des abeilles sur l'importance de la #pollinisation.
@UNESCO @Guerlain #IDB2019
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Anne Larigauderie, Secretary General @IPBES kicks off the panel “The #biodiversity crisis is at its peak but we are still able to transform, to change. We know what to do, it is time to do it!”. Bees are a huge part of this preservation 🐝
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From a marine iguana foraging for algae to the harsh beauty of dry salt beds in Argentina, the highlights of the 2019 BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition including bizarre and striking images.
—@MotherNatureNet
#BiodiversityDay #IDB2019
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Only 3% of the #oceans were described as free from human pressure in 2014.
#ClimateChange and business-as-usual fishing scenarios are expected to worsen the status of marine #biodiversity. —@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
#BiodiversityDay #IDB2019 ipbes.net
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Did you know that more than 25% of the global land area is traditionally owned, managed, used or occupied by Indigenous Peoples?
The #GlobalAssessment Report is the first to integrate knowledge & priorities of #Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.
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"We are losing #biodiversity faster than ever before ...The good news is that it's not too late...but it's going to take transformative changes."
—Stuart Butchart @stubutchart, @IPBES #GlobalAssessment Coordinating Lead Author.
#BiodiversityDay #IDB2019 #NewDealForNature @WWF
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🌎 #LandDegradation is a major driver of #ClimateChange, creating a vicious circle which further degrades #ecosystems
🌲 #Deforestation alone = 10% of annual human emissions
⚠️ These #biodiversity concerns must be addressed together and with similar urgency
🏞️ #BiodiversityDay
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#InvasiveAlienSpecies can significantly harm #Biodiversity.
On #BiodiversityDay please welcome the @IPBES Co-Chairs leading the #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment: Professors Helen Roy @UKLadybirds (UK), @AnibalPauchard (Chile) and @pstoett (Canada).
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🇺🇳 "On this International Day for Biological Diversity, I urge Governments, businesses and people everywhere to act to protect the nature that sustains us. Our collective future depends on it."
— @antonioguterres, @UN Secretary General
@UNBiodiversity
#BiodiversityDay #IDB2019
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Businesses and supply chains play a key role in transformative changes toward sustainability.
“It's not because I go out there and cut down a forest, but because I buy something that requires that a forest be cut down." —@KaiChanUBC
BiodiversityDay #IDB2019 #GlobalAssessment
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Ensuring sustainable #foodproduction from the #oceans while protecting #biodiversity entails policy action to apply sustainable #ecosystem approaches to fisheries management, implement and expand marine protected areas, and address #ClimateChange and #pollution.
#BiodiversityDay
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Is the world on track to meet global targets for sustainability?
The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment provides an in-depth analysis on the progress of the #Aichi #Biodiversity Targets and 44 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals connected with #nature.
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The @IPBES report "offers hope for setting nature on path to recovery through transformative change." —Rebecca Shaw, chief scientist at @WWF.
All life benefits from #Biodiversity and #Sustainability.
#IDB2019 #BiodiversityDay
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On #BiodiversityDay it's important to remember that #biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange are environmental, development, economic, security, social and equity issues that must be addressed together to achieve a sustainable future, for people and for nature.
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#Biodiversity is the richness of life.
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This #BiodiversityDay, we recognize the essential variety of life forms on Earth.
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The royal baby is cute and all, but hello, the planet is on fire grist.org/article/the-royal-… via @grist
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Hi Maria - we use a range of monitoring tools - most of the metrics listed above are derived from Meltwater
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