The @IPBES #NexusAssessment scoping meeting is now underway digitally!
The Assessment will detail ways to reach global goals for health, water, food, #ClimateChange & #biodiversity
Grateful for experts flexibility & patience as staff and participants shift to 'virtual' working
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"Educating girls brings broad benefits to society as well as improving efforts to tackle the #climate emergency"
The climate and #biodiversity loss crises disproportionately affect women—but a new report reminds us that they are vital for the solution ♀️
ecowatch.com/climate-crisis-…
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🌏This year, the theme of #WorldEnvironmentDay is #biodiversity🌍
Get ready for 5 June 2⃣0⃣2⃣0⃣ with these thematic hashtags from @UNEP
#ForNature
#PourLaNature
#من_أجل_الطبيعة
#拯救自然#
#РадиПрироды
#PorLaNaturaleza
#PelaNatureza
#TutunzeMazingira
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For #WorldWaterDay, the @WaterFootprintN launched a new Water Footprint Assessment Tool
💧Calculate 🖩 & map🗺 water footprints
💧Assess #sustainability
💧Identify strategic options to improve #water use
Free interactive tool ↘️
waterfootprintassessmenttool…
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On #WorldWaterDay, @UN_Water has a simple message:
💧Everyone has a role to play in addressing #ClimateChange💧
In our daily lives, there are surprisingly easy steps we can all take to protect our planet 🌎
Find out more ↘️
worldwaterday.org/
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On #WorldWaterDay, join the @WHO #SafeHands Challenge
Wash your hands 👐 using soap🧼 and #water 💦 or alcohol-based rub
Let’s show our best hand hygiene moments to help fight #COVID19
@UN_Water
World Health Organization (WHO)
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Looking for an easy, family-friendly activity?
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The @audubonsociety has created a #DIY guide to making your own birdbath. With only two materials, this is a simple way to support #biodiversity in your own backyard.
#StayAtHome @BirdLife_News
audubon.org/news/how-make-bi…
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💧Today is #WorldWaterDay💧
#Water is essential to many solutions in our global fight against #ClimateChange, such as
🌊 Protecting #carbon sinks such as oceans and wetlands
🌱Adopting climate-smart agricultural techniques
💦 Increasing the safe reuse of wastewater
@UN_Water
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⏰"Within the next decade or so, we are going to pass a number of tipping points"
🌍Sir David Attenborough & Dr @JaneGoodallInst are speaking out about the dangerous decline of #nature
🗣Add your #VoiceForThePlanet
@voice4planet:voicefortheplanet.org
The Nature Conservancy
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Forests and #biodiversity are too precious to lose
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On International Day of Forests, @FAOclimate shows that we need to care for our only home 🌏 by caring for our #forests
#IntlForestDay #Biodiversity2020
FAO Climate Change & Biodiversity
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🌲Today is International Day of #Forests🌴
Forests are home to much of the 🌏's #biodiversity, but face a number of human-induced threats, including:
🌾Agricultural expansion
🏙Expansion of urban areas
🚗Expansion of infrastructure
#IntlForestDay #Biodiversity2020
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"What we see here is an aquaculture project that cares about the #environment and about the development of the people who work here"
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At Lake Arapa in #Peru 🇵🇪, a group of #women are managing an innovative trout farm
@FAO @WorldBank @MINPRODUCCION
Food and Agriculture Organization
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"Our actions today can help preserve our #biodiversity and secure the future of our #food"
Biodiversity is being lost at an alarming rate, but @FAO reminds us of its importance—and outlines personal efforts that can help protect it.
#Biodiversity2020
Food and Agriculture Organization
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'The #coronavirus is telling the world what we have been saying for thousands of years—if we do not protect #biodiversity & #nature then we will face this & worse future threats'
–Levi Sucre Romero, BriBri Indigenous person from Costa Rica @alianzabosques
hindustantimes.com/india-new…
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Congratulations to @IPBES #GlobalAssessment co-chair Sandra Díaz for winning the prestigious @KewGardens International Medal, for landmark research on plant #biodiversity & impacts of #climatechange
@SDiazEcology joins #SirDavidAttenborough & E.O. Wilson
kew.org/read-and-watch/kew-i…
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🌳 21 March is the International Day of Forests!🌴
@FAO offers tips on how to teach kids about the importance of #forests—and how to make it fun!
🌲You're never too young to start learning about #trees🎋
#IntlForestDay #Biodiversity2020
Food and Agriculture Organization
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“The only chance these #endangered #species have is if we all work together”
Last year, a respiratory disease threatened the kākāpō with #extinction. But @kate_g_evans @guardianeco reveals how scientists and vets brought the bird back from the brink
theguardian.com/environment/…
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The world's #wetlands are disappearing all around us
87% of area has already been lost in the modern era
@AP shows #WhatCanBeSaved and the optimism of large scale #EcosystemRestoration
The Associated Press
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"Last year's news headlines made it clear: nature is in a state of emergency"
@Greenbiz explains why the #GlobalAssessment was a wake-up call for businesses, but argues that they must do more to protect #nature
@CHerweijer @samra_mariam @Will_Evison
greenbiz.com/article/hidden-…
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