Webinar for #IPBESStakeholders on the draft scoping reports for the @IPBES nexus & transformative change assessments on 14 July 2020
Register👉bit.ly/2YaxWiE
All participants must be registered as reviewers of the #NexusAssessment & #TransformativeChange Assessment
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🦜🏝️🐠Today is #TropicsDay! 🌴🦩🥥
#DYK tropical & subtropical forests cover about 52% of global forested land? This accounts for about 70% of the carbon in forests globally.
—@IPBES, #GlobalAssessment
Tropical #biodiversity is vital #ForNature
#WeAreTheTropics
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📖 New study finds that fungi have the ability to rapidly adapt to environmental conditions and to the crops they infect.
"On a planet where the climate is changing, highly adaptable pathogens are likely to be harder to control.
- @RokasLab
theconversation.com/crop-pat…
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"Fungi are the next frontier of biodiversity science"🍄
-@AlexandreAntone, director of science, @kewgardens
@BBCNews reports that one teaspoon of soil from the Amazon contains as many as 1,800 microscopic life forms, of which about 400 are #fungi
@unidue
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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New @IPBES #VirtualBackgrounds 🎉
Celebrate #biodiversity and make your next video meeting more fun! 🌿🐾
Download one of IPBES's new #VirtualBackgrounds & share👇
trello.com/b/LZRQODLE/ipbes-…
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“This is bad for farmers like us, who grow crops in open fields”🌾
In Kenya, hail the size of boulders can devastate a farm.
Are these hailstorms linked to #climatechange? Experts say it's a complex answer.
@BBC_Future
@MeteoKenya
bbc.com/future/article/20200…
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In 2019, a herd of #saiga produced 4 calves. This year, scientists found over 500.
“The aggregation of adults that birthed them is the largest anyone has seen in this area in almost 10 years" - Albert Salemgareyev, @ACBK_Kazakhstan
@SaigaCA
@UNDPbiofin
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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“Just a month after mating, a female octopus can lay as many as 100,000 eggs"
What does it take to be a good #octopus mom? @NatGeo offers an up-close look 🐙
National Geographic
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💻 Join @Nature4Climate's webinar on 1 July & listen to @cmrodrigueze, Minister of Environment of #CostaRica, @PavanSukhdev of @WWF, @wbcsd & @Y4Nature on the importance of nature-based recovery 🌳
w/@ClubOfRome, @wef & @london_climate
Register here👇
eventbrite.com/e/nature-posi…
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New @IPBES #VirtualBackgrounds 🎉
Celebrate #biodiversity and make your next video meeting more fun! 🌿🐾
Download one of IPBES's new #VirtualBackgrounds & share👇
trello.com/b/LZRQODLE/ipbes-…
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#DYK plants make up 80% of the food we eat?
@FAO provides tips for protecting #PlantHealth — from raising public awareness to ensuring the implementation of @ippcnews standards.
#FoodSecurity
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Food and Agriculture Organization
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“Our goal is to become the leading provider of biogas energy solutions across Africa” - Leroy Mwasaru, founder of @Greenpactke
The start-up produces affordable, high-quality waste-to-energy systems known as biogas digesters. 🌳
@unredd
unenvironment.org/news-and-s…
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“There’s a lot more #diversity out there than we know of—and if we don’t know about it, we risk losing it.” - @PrimateWatching
Scientists considered banded langurs to be a single species—but new research points to three separate ones. 🐒
@tweetWRS
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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"#Biodiversity is vital to improving agricultural & food production and maintaining our planet's resources and ecosystems"
—Qu Dongyu @FAODG @FAO calls for "key policy decisions" such as @EUgreendeal of the @EU_Commission
via @NewTimesRwanda
newtimes.co.rw/international…
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"Rather than benefiting the environment, large-scale tree planting may do the opposite, two new studies have found."
@MattMcGrathBBC
📖 The key message from both papers is that planting trees is not a simple climate solution. 🌲
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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A giant sculpture of the sea goddess Mazu is helping to restore #coralreefs in Thailand 🐠 🌊
#GlobalCoralition has created an innovative model to restore ocean ecosystems, by involving local communities
@WEF
World Economic Forum
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🌳 🌼 🎉 Ahora tenemos una cuenta en español 💐🐦🌴
Síguenos en #Twitter 👉 @IPBESes
y #Facebook 👉 facebook.com/IPBESes
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As our planet gets hotter, we need to find better ways to adapt to extreme weather. ☀️
Ecosystem-based adaptation is an approach that uses ecosystem services as part of a holistic adaptation strategy to fight #climatechange.
Learn more from @UNEP ⬇️
youtube.com/watch?v=fhDuqvRk…
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Calling all @IPBES members, observers & stakeholders
The IPBES #NexusAssessment draft scoping report is open for external review from 5 June - 31 July.
This is your chance to help shape the scope of the report ⬇️
ipbes.net/nexus-scoping-revi…
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