The world needs science and science needs women🙋♀️🔬
@IPBES celebrates the pioneering womxn who contribute their expertise to our assessments on #biodiversity 🦋🐝
Tomorrow is #WomenInScience Day📅
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Thank you for amplifying the message. Indeed - biodiversity is the richness of life. However, @IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that nature and its vital contributions to people are deteriorating worldwide...
Here's the full report👉ipbes.net/global-assessment
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Happy #WorldPulsesDay!
Pulses are important for:
🥗Healthy diets
🚜Sustainable food production
🍲#FoodSecurity
Let's celebrate this important food, for our health and #ForNature 🌎🌱
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📅📢Save the date
On 11 Feb, 4pm CET @KoBarrettIPCC of @IPCC_CH will speak in @GlobalLF Live on how scientific fields can become more equitable – and why it’s imperative for the #climate that they do👩🔬💡
#WomenInScience #GenerationEquality
news.globallandscapesforum.o…
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🌺'Noting the key messages of @IPBES #GlobalAssessment, IPBES #RegionalAssessments & IPBES #PandemicsReport'...
➡️the Ministers of Environment of Latin America & the Caribbean decided to adopt the new Action Plan for #EcoystemsRestoration
📖wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha…
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On the 11th of February, we celebrate #WomenInScience Day 👩🔬👩🎓🧕👩
@IPBES strives for gender equity among its experts⚖️as #Gender inequalities undermine the capacity for sustainability🌱
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🐝🦋Is your work related to #Pollinators?🦋🐝
If you are working on any type of pollinator project, initiative, network, or know of any pollinator policy or legislation, please consider filling in this survey by @FAO✍️
surveymonkey.de/r/Pollinator…
More info: fao.org/cgrfa/topics/biodive…
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Greater diversity = better science!
We all stand to benefit from greater participation of girls and #WomenInScience👩🔬👩🎓
@UNESCO is raising awareness about girls' and women's #education in #STEM 👉en.unesco.org/stemed
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New @UNEP, @ChathamHouse & @ciwf report on #food systems impacts on #biodiversity loss proposes 3 actions #ForNature:
🍲Shift to plant-heavy diets
🐸Increase land protected areas
🌾Farm in a nature-friendly, biodiversity-supporting way
unep.org/news-and-stories/pr…
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11 Feb is #WomenInScience Day👩🔬
🔬#DYK that less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women?
And only around 30% of all female students select #STEM-related fields in higher education...👩🎓
Learn more from @UNESCO & @UN_Women
en.unesco.org/commemorations…
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We share the Earth🌏 w/ a myriad of animal & plant #species, ecosystems & genes...
🐦Do we need this #biodiversity?
🌿What can we do #ForNature?
🔬Thousands of scientists work with @IPBES to provide answers to these questions
➡️ipbes.net/assessing-knowledg…
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🌱🥗10 Feb is #WorldPulsesDay!
These tiny, multi-colored seeds are some of nature’s most nutritious foods
@FAO highlights why we should opt for more pulses in our diets - they are good for our health and #ForNature.
Learn more fao.org/fao-stories/article/…
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📣NEW Regional Action Plan to restore #ecosystems🌎
🌺Last week, the Ministers of Environment of Latin America & the Caribbean agreed on actions for the next 10 years to promote, improve, accelerate and scale-up #EcosystemRestoration in the region🌿
➡️ wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.50…
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8 decisions of the Forum of Env. Ministers of Latin America & Caribbean for a green recovery on:
🏭pollution
♻️#CircularEconomy
💧#ClimateChange
🦋#biodiversity
🌐Integrated Env.Inf. System
🌊preparedness
👭🏽gender equality
🏝️Small Island States
w/@UNEP
unep.org/news-and-stories/pr…
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🇧🇷#Brazil is known as the nation of forests🌳
Yet its lush landscapes are increasingly under threat
Meet @restoreforward's #FacesofRestoration - champions who are restoring trees, overcoming challenges & renewing the landscape🌴
#ConservationOptimism
wri.org/faces-restoration?ut…
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It's wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere🌨️☃️
🦊#DYK that arctic foxes can be white, brown, or gray with their color depending on the time of year?
These unique animals adapt incredibly well to temperatures as low as −70 °C ❄️
🎥@PhysicsAndAstr1
nitter.vloup.ch/PhysicsAndAstr1/…
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🏡#WFH during #Covid-19 has brought noise pollution even closer to home. Newly published research suggests the animal kingdom is also disturbed by the noise of humans and our gadgets📲🖨️💻
🔍@pacificu @royalsociety via 📰@NatalieGrover
@guardian
theguardian.com/science/2021…
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