🌾"We need to always protect our seeds"
👩🏽🌾#Ruralwomen are at the forefront of #biodiversity conservation
"#Landdegradation generates an additional labour burden that often falls disproportionately on women"
—@IPBES #Landdegradation Assessment
📽️@UN_Women
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👩🏽🌾Today, we celebrate #RuralWomen🌾
Including #Rural Women & girls in environmental governance is key to #sustainability
"Land or resource tenure insecurity & declines in #nature have greater impacts on #women & #girls" —@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
@UN_Women
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New article in @nature: '#EcosystemRestoration can help mitigate #ClimateChange at low costs'
'Conserving ecosystems & restoring 30% of converted land could mitigate 71±4% of extinction debt & sequester 465±59 gigatonnes CO2—49% of CO2 since Indus. Rev.'
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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📣 Don't forget to send us your comments on the draft chapters of the @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies assessment 🐠
⏰ Deadline: 18 October 2020 ⏰
More info & register: ipbes.net/register-ias-fod
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Solar energy is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’ according to new @IEA World Energy Outlook
In '#SustainableDevelopment Scenario' they predict solar could generate 13 times as much electricity in 2040 as it did last year: iea.li/3jUkx6Y
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🕸️ "The equation is simple: without a healthy #planet there can be no healthy economies.
🌱 We must mend our broken relationship with #Nature"
—@WWF's @VPerezCirera & @ilo's Maikel R. Lieuw-Kie-Song on #COVID19 and the future of #work
iloblog.org/2020/10/12/a-bet…
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'Most contemp. agricultural practices are unsustainable & a signif. source of terrestrial #biodiversityloss
This need not be the case. Feeding the world & conservation are complementary interdependent goals'
Bob Watson past Chair @IPBES @IPCC_CH | @ProSyn
project-syndicate.org/onpoin…
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Do you know @BiodivERsA3? Last Sep they launched a call for #Biodiversity & #Climate research support
They've now recommended 20 research proposals for funding w/ €24M, w/ @EU_Commission support & former @IPBES Chair #BobWatson chairing evaluation panel
biodiversa.org/1785
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'This forest taught us to walk lightly & b/c we have listened, learned & defended her, she has given us everything: water, clean air, nourishment, shelter, medicines, happiness, meaning.
You're taking all this away...from everyone & future generations'
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"Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history"
Read more: bit.ly/GlobalAssessmentRepor…
@IPBES #GlobalAssessment: bit.ly/GAMediaRelease
#Biodiversity2020 #ForNature
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Interested in #infrastructure & #nature?
Join the @Nature_org webinar series on barriers and opportunities for sustainable finance that address the multiple crises we face today, from global #biodiversityloss to #climatechange and the #COVID19 pandemic
👇
wwfus.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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#Breaking: #G20 finance ministers & central bank governors to meet virtually on Wed to discuss 'rapid, sustainable global economic recovery'
Govnts have an opportunity to implement policies & actions to emerge from the crisis stronger & more resilient
reuters.com/article/us-g20-f…
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New @TEDCountdown hub – a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate & biodiversity crises: countdown.ted.com/
#JoinTheCountdown w/ @CFigueres, former @UNFCCC Executive Secretary | #StubbornOptimism
youtube.com/5dVcn8NjbwY?t=4331
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How can countries bring about recoveries that benefit #PeopleAndPlanet by incorporating #climate, #nature & social inclusion?
Join @WorldBank event to discuss process towards new @UNBiodiversity targets for conservation & sustainable use of #biodiversity
live.worldbank.org/sustainab…
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🍄What can be done to protect & sustainably use the world’s plant & fungal #biodiversity to benefit people & the planet?🌱
Join @kewgardens Online Symposium w/@IPBES Chair @Anamariamojita & other experts on 13–15 October🌿
💻Register: kew.org/sotwpf-symposium
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According to new @SwissRe insurance analysis:
"1 in 5 countries are at risk of ecosystem collapse"
'1st index to our knowledge that pulls together indicators of #biodiversity & ecosystems to cross-compare around the world & link back to those economies'
theguardian.com/environment/…
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"The living world is a unique & spectacular marvel. Yet the way we humans live on Earth is sending it into a decline"
We need to work with #nature, rather than against it.
#DavidAttenborough wants to show ppl how, as he lays out his vision for the future
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"Earth has existed for 45 million centuries, but this century is special: it’s the first when one species – ours – has the planet’s future in its hands.”
@RiFish dives into the idea that we may be living through the most influential period of time ever
bbc.com/future/article/20200…
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Last chance to review draft chapters of the @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies assessment 18 Oct
Register now & check out the webinar introducing the first draft of the #invasivespecies assessment (with subtitles in all #UN languages)
Log in here for more info ipbes.net/register-ias-fodun
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#EcosystemRestoration 'is a key tool to help us redefine our relationship w/ #nature & integrate present & future generations in the dialogue'
@IUCN @IUCN_forests takes a closer look at #forest landscape restoration & how it can benefit local communities
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