🔎A new study by @EURAC & @Uni_WUE confirmed that #biodiversity ensures resilience to #ClimateChange & extreme weather
"Agricultural fields w/ greater #biodiversity are better protected from harmful insects, promote #pollination & produce higher yields"🌾
eurac.edu/en/news/news/Pages…
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New report analyses ALL 7 @IPBES Assessment Reports for knowledge gaps:
Pollination
Scenarios and Models
Regional Assessments for:
Africa
Americas
Asia-Pacific
Europe & Central Asia
#LandDegradation and Restoration
#GlobalAssessment
Open Access link: rdcu.be/bVy8H
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🍃From genes, #species and #ecosystems to languages, traditions, #value and knowledge systems – these diversities are all facing loss
Biological and cultural #diversity are interdependent - this biocultural paradigm can contribute to #sustainability
📑stockholmresilience.org/rese…
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Major IPBES events and meetings will have a few each - or at our annual Stakeholder Day and Plenary sessions. Requests for shipment will also be considered for specific events/activities related to the IPBES work programme
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#Development without #sustainability in #Brazil could lead to rates of #deforestation that mean the #Amazon won't sustain itself by 2021
New report by @bollemdb challenges prevailing projections of 20-25 years before irreversible tipping point is reached
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Economists underestimate the costs of #ClimateChange, according to new report by @LSEnews, @PIK_Climate & @earthinstitute
One reason is that climate change harms reinforce one another as a cascade, w/ effects hard to model
Find out about other reasons📑
msn.com/en-ie/news/indepth/c…
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Fighting #ClimateChange starts on the streets...by "greening" them🌳🌳🌳
🏙️Learn about the @EBRD Green Cities programme that introduced #NatureBasedSolutions in West Balkan cities, already mitigating 800,000 tonnes of CO2 annually: bit.ly/31NjLic
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Whether it 🏞️#ecosystem🐞#species or🥕genetic #biodiversity, the variety of life on #Earth enriches all our lives.
Here's the new 2019 @IPBES posters!
Which poster (and level of biodiversity) is your favorite?
⬇️ Tell us in the poll below!
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Bob Watson at the @WorldBank on actions needed for the future:
🔸Multi-sectoral planning & joint work of gov't departments, including ministries of finance
🔸An evolution in financing & economic systems
🔸Inclusive governance systems
#InvestInNature: wrld.bg/LLIa50wI0W0
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Meet the🏆of 2019 @NHM_WPY competition!
🦊Yongqing Bao captured a Tibetan fox, hunting to keep her cubs alive, in a fight for survival with a Himalayan marmot
"Seeing these...moments reminds us of what we need to protect," — Sir Michael Dixon @NHM_London
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019…
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1 year ago #HurricaneMichael devastated the #Florida Panhandle
Powerful winds snapped #trees in half, but now ospreys are thriving – building nests in the tall branches and crooks of the dead trees
#resilience via @UFEarthSystems
nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/nat/…
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#Pollution is the 4th most important direct driver of change in marine #ecosystems, following direct exploitation, land/sea use change and #ClimateChange
Marine plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980, affecting at least 267 species🐋
—@IPBES #GlobalAssesessment
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Join us every week over the coming months as we follow Billy’s journey, learning with him and highlighting conservationists, NGOs and experts who are working to make a difference and prevent 1 million species from disappearing forever.
↘️Watch @sustainabillyt Episode 1!
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#SirDavidAttenborough has a simple message:
Just don't waste things.
Don’t waste electricity, don’t waste paper, don’t waste food.
Look after the natural world, and the animals, and the plants too.
This is their planet as well as ours.
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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💦Regulation of #water quality is one of nature's contributions with unequal impact on different groups
Here is an example, how #NatureBasedSolutions can help to produce 'high quality drinking water' & partially mitigate this problem in #India
DW Global Ideas & Environment
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🎵 The Times They Are a-Changin' 🕐
For those living in #Europe, don't forget to set the clock back one hour this Sunday morning.
But is this (re)synchronization truly an effective measure in terms of reducing energy consumption or promoting animal welfare?
What do you think?
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🐦 After 34 years on the #endangered species list, one bird is ready to fly free of US federal protection
After being hunted for feathers and hurt by new dams, the Interior Least Tern pop. has increased 10x since 1985
#conservationoptimism
@borenbears
pbs.org/newshour/nation/tiny…
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🏞️@IPBES is pleased to feature:
Billy Offland’s Conservation Journey!
The #GlobalAssessment & 1 million threatened species inspired Billy to take action, learn first-hand from conservationists around the world, & amplify this local knowledge.
↘️Watch @sustainabillyt Episode 1!
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🐦The #GlobalAssessment shows that #ClimateChange is already impacting 23% of threatened #birds
@audubonsociety is using #art to highlight this & has commissioned artists to paint 314 murals of #birds threatened by 🌍 warming
#InternationalArtistsDay🎨
audubon.org/amp
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