Landmark #ClimateChange legislation passes in #NewZealand – #ZeroCarbon by 2050
@jacindaardern's bill earned "historic cross-party support" & commits 🇳🇿 to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050 & meet #ParisAgreement commitments
theguardian.com/world/2019/n…
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Hi @hkopnina, currently the @IPBES #ValuesAssessment is doing just that! The authors are quite interdisciplinary in their approach to assess diverse conceptualisations of nature and how this is – and can be – incorporated into decision-making
More here: ipbes.net/news/new-ipbes-ass…
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#Nature is essential to both global economic prosperity and individual #business success. We cannot have a #sustainable future for people and economies if we do not address nature, #climate and people in an integrated way. - @EvaZabey1 @BfNCoalition @wef
weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/b…
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“Not embracing #biodiversity will lead to business risks – thinking about biodiversity will create opportunities.”
What to do?
“Solutions exist. It’s a question of will, a question of deciding to do so, of deployment & implementation.”
—Anne Larigauderie
#BusinessNatureSummit
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#Business commitments and innovations such as #sustainable sourcing and resource efficiency, underpinned by #ClimateSmart policies can transform #economies to stop #biodiversity loss put us on a more sustainable trajectory.
#BusinessNatureSummit
Live: youtube.com/watch?v=ho5IdHO5…
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🏭 #BusinessNatureSummit🌲
Why should business care about #biodiversity?
They stand to gain by doing so!
• Biodiversity loss affects industries & reduces GDP
• Consumer prefer companies that care for #Nature
• Industry is often responsible for damage to the #Environment
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The #BusinessNatureSummit is about to begin – join live now!
At 10h CET @IPBES ExecSec Anne Larigauderie & @UNBiodiversity Dep ExecSec @hdavidcooper kick off high level panel 1: Building Action for #Nature & People
Follow along w/ @FBiodiversidad @EU_ENV
youtube.com/watch?v=M5m9B6eV…
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Join today's #BusinessNatureSummit!
Why should businesses care about #Biodiversity2020?
The #GlobalAssessment shows that people are eroding the services #nature provides and the foundations of our economies
View agenda, speakers, join the livestreams:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-…
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~1800 scientists endorsed the message of a @Defenders letter aimed at stopping accelerating #extinction:
Solving the #biodiversity crisis starts with funding
Read the letter in @sciencemagazine: science.sciencemag.org/conte…
Learn more & view signatories: defenders-cci.org/sign-on/co…
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#Biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange threaten global peace and stability, food security, #sustainable development and #HumanHealth.
Citing @IPBES #GlobalAssessment, 🇫🇷Pres. @EmmanuelMacron and 🇨🇳Pres. Xi issued a statement in view of the 2020 @UNBiodiversity #COP15 in Kunming
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11,000 scientists just declared "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a #ClimateEmergency."
'To secure a sustainable future, we must change how we live...transform how global society functions & interacts with ecosystems”
@ScienceWarning
theguardian.com/environment/…
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You have to 'seal' it to believe it!
The River Thames – despite being "so polluted it was declared biologically dead" in the 1950s – has bounced back!
There are now more than 3500 #seals to prove it!
@wef: weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/t…
@ZSLconservation:
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More than 2,500 scientists have sent a letter to the @Europarl_EN @EP_Agriculture outlining “catastrophic declines” suffered by birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and insects from intensive agricultural practices.
@EOUnion @EuroMammals @europebutterfly
greennews.ie/cap-reform-scie…
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Recalling #BiodiversityLoss and #ClimateChange and welcoming @IPBES #GlobalAssessment, France and China pledge continued support to environ. protection and intl cooperation on #ParisAgreement, @UNBiodiversity #COP15 & #post2020 biodiversity framework
elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/20…
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#Biodiversity loss is an "environmental disaster that needs a greater level of awareness"
Rimba, a new card game developed in #Malaysia helps kids to learn about country's #wildlife🦎
Rimba? It stands for reptiles, fish, mammals, birds & amphibians in🇲🇾
thestar.com.my/news/nation/2…
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🐕 'Man's best friend' has many talents - now tracking #endangered species and helping #conservation efforts can be added to them!
In this study, scientists trained conservation dogs to focus on a new kind of animal: reptiles🦎.
@CNN
edition.cnn.com/2019/10/30/w…
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#Nature is fascinating!
A colony of wood ants🐜 survives for years after falling into a post-Soviet nuclear bunker in #Poland🇵🇱 by strategically cannibalising the fallen members of their own kind, report @ScienceDaily and the @Independent.
independent.co.uk/news/scien…
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Integration of #environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into #investment processes and decision-making is key to #SustainableInvesting.
In Indonesia🇮🇩, @KEHATI Foundation is championing #sustainable investment initiatives:
cnbcindonesia.com/opini/2019…
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'Perhaps the strongest message from the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment is the need for #TransformativeChange
Immediate & massive changes to global economic & political systems are needed in order to slow deterioration of nature & #biodiversity'
@bonebraking et al. in @Trends_Ecol_Evo
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Old phones, solar panels & #ArtificialIntelligence - recipe for the @RainforestCx treetop surveillance systemdetecting illegal logging
It can also track the sounds of #endangered #species, so forest recordings have potential to also become a #science tool
nationalgeographic.com/news/…
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