NOW AVAILABLE: @IPBES #GlobalAssessment Summary in all @UN languages!
Arabic: ipbes.net/system/tdf/ipbes_7…
Chinese: ipbes.net/system/tdf/ipbes_7…
English: ipbes.net/system/tdf/ipbes_7…
French: ipbes.net/system/tdf/ipbes_7…
Russian: ipbes.net/system/tdf/ipbes_7…
Spanish: ipbes.net/system/tdf/ipbes_7…
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Love #biodiversity? Hate emissions & conference costs?
@IPBES is holding e-conferences to scope two upcoming assessments:
'Nexus' of biodiversity, food, water & health 30 Sep-2 Oct
'Transformative Change' 9-11 Oct
Experts & stakeholders register at:
bit.ly/scoping-econferences
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"There is a wealth of evidence ... that if we restore, protect and enhance #ecosystems, they will lower human vulnerability to #ClimateChange" —@NathalieSeddon, a zoologist at @UniofOxford
Explore the potential for #NatureBasedSolutions for 🇮🇩🇬🇦🇵🇭🇲🇲
news.trust.org/item/20190923…
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'The corporate veil is being pierced by this generation' - @Danone CEO @EmmanuelFaber
19 companies, valued at >$500 billion, have launched the #OP2B "One Planet Business for #Biodiversity" initiative
businessinsider.fr/us/danone…
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BREAKING: 'Alarming' @IUCN report found that 58% of #Europe's endemic tree species (found nowhere else) are now at risk of #extinction
42% of 454 native #tree species could disappear
15% are critically endangered, 'just a step away from going extinct'
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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"We need to defund the mechanisms...that fuel deforestation" -Harrison Ford, #ClimateActionSummit
Former @IPBES Chair Bob Watson agrees: "We need to eliminate harmful agricultural, energy & transportation subsidies and incentivise sustainable production."
Bloomberg Originals
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Building on thorough evidence of the consequences of #ClimateChange for #ecosystems and people, the @IPCC_CH #SROCC says:
Integrated water management and ecosystem-based adaptation approaches can lower climate risks locally & provide benefits to people
IPCC
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Travel brings us closer to ourselves🧘to the outdoors ⛰️ and to nature 🌲
For #WorldTourismDay travel bloggers from around the world were asked what travel meant to them and here's what they had to say
💭Protect nature for your next adventure and together we can #Connect2Earth
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3 DAY WEB CONFERENCE STARTING MONDAY!
Do you hold expertise in food, water, health, #biodiversity or #ClimateChange?
@IPBES invites ALL stakeholders to provide input 4 the #NexusAssessment
Registration, agenda: bit.ly/IPBESNexusConference
Webinar sign-up: bit.ly/IPBESNexusWebinarRegi…
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The National Council of #Austria #OeNR just declared a #ClimateEmergency, with climate and environmental protection at the highest level of priority, and future policy to be informed by @IPBES and @IPCC_CH research
#SciencePolicy #IMPACT
Find out more: bit.ly/2lTwDV5
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A day tinged w/ sadness; we mark the passing of a progenitor of @IPBES, former French President, Jacques Chirac.
At the 2005 Paris Conf. on #Biodiversity, #Science & Governance, he proposed creating an @IPCC_CH-like mechanism for biodiversity.
#RIPChirac
thestar.com/news/world/europ…
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🌳"Growing billions of #trees across the world is the single biggest and cheapest way to tackle the #ClimateCrisis, though coal, oil & gas burning must also end"
@GretaThurnberg & @GeorgeMonbiot on the importance of #NatureBasedSolutions🌲
Via @guardian: theguardian.com/environment/…
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From @nature editorial: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Dasgupta @hmtreasury economic review of #biodiversity faces challenges because of the many ways to value #nature, consulting @IPBES on its #ValuesAssessment "which has responded to the diversity challenge by embracing it"
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"We're in the grip of an existential environmental emergency.
Thankfully, we know precisely what to do...we must bring one of our most powerful allies into the fight now — nature"
—@andersen_inger
'we fool ourselves if we think we can fool #nature'
news.trust.org/item/20190924…
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It's the @IPBES assessment on the links between #biodiversity, water, food and health. Find out more here: ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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The @IPCC_CH has just provided the most comprehensive analysis of the effects of #ClimateChange on the ocean & the Earth's frozen areas.
#SROCC Summary➡️ ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/summar…
GIF via @MattMcGrathBBC here:
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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The @IPCC_CH just launched the Report on Oceans & Cryosphere
The #SROCC examines the impacts of #ClimateChange on #ecosystems & topics such as coral bleaching, ocean acidification, extreme weather events & implications for fisheries
@MattMcGrathBBC
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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Just released! @IPCC_CH Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Our ocean and frozen regions sustain us but they are under pressure. The time for #ClimateAction is now.
#SROCC press release➡️ ipcc.ch/2019/09/25/srocc-pre…
Summary➡️ ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/summar…
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LIVE NOW! Webcast of the @IPCC_CH Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Watch the first presentation of the #SROCC key findings here:
youtube.com/watch?v=JYFMCU8L…
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