🌐#DidYouKnow that since 1980, greenhouse gas #emissions have doubled & avg global temps have risen at least 0.7℃? #ClimateChange
📈At the same time, global average per capita consumption rose 15%
@IPBES #GlobalAssessment #SciencePolicy
Video via @WEF
World Economic Forum
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✍️Call for proposals!
New funding opportunity under the Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia #BIFA programme to promote the mobilization and use of #biodiversity data in #Asia 📈🌏
📅DDL: 09 February 202
gbif.org/news/6rId141fSTuAVz…
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🦠 If we don't address #biodiversity loss, #pandemics will be more frequent, costly and deadly than #COVID19
📖 @IPBES #PandemicsReport offers options for policy and action
👉 ipbes.net/pandemics
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🌺'The “ugliest #orchid in the world”, a toadstool discovered at Heathrow airport, and a scaly shrub have topped a list of new #species named by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew' @kewgardens
✍️@dpcarrington via @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
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The 4th meeting of the @IPBES #CapacityBuilding Forum focused on encouraging the development of national & sub-regional #SciencePolicy platforms
See a graphic recording from the Forum developed by @designdeconversas 🎨🖌️
💭Learn more ipbes.net/events/ipbes-capac…
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🍉We get to enjoy different #fruits and #vegetables thanks to #biodiversity 🦋
🍅'Shifting diets towards a diversity of foods, fruits & vegetables can improve our #health'
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
🎥@FAO #IYFV2021
Food and Agriculture Organization
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💐 We wish you a happy #solstice!
⭐In the Northern Hemisphere, all nocturnal #wildlife rests after the longest #night of the year
☀️Today, the Southern Hemisphere enjoys the longest #day of the year
#WinterSolstice #SummerSolstice
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🐦They collaborate
🤝Can we collaborate #ForNature?
🌿 "In many areas, #conservation depends on building capacity & enhancing stakeholder #collaboration, involving non-profit groups as well as #Indigenous Peoples & local communities"
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
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The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment showed that land-use change & direct exploitation account for >50% of the relative human impact on land & in freshwater ecosystems
#Deforestation & other such impacts on ecosystems are directly linked to our health
via @UNEP
UN Environment Programme
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🐧❄️ 'The huge #ice mass, which broke from the #Antarctic’s Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, slid toward the open #ocean for over two years until it hit the powerful Circumpolar Current that circles the continent.'
📰@CassLGarrison via @Reuters
reuters.com/article/climate-…
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🐛Have you ever seen such a cute #sea slug?
🌅Costasiella kuroshimae uses #SolarEnergy in a process called kleptoplasty to: "retain the chloroplasts from the algae it feeds on so that they can be used for #photosynthesis"
via @Rainmaker1973
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🐝 #DYK that #bees are not the only pollinators?
🐦 Meet the mulsant's #hummingbird that lives in the Andes from #Colombia to #Bolivia 🐦
🌺 What other pollinators do you know?
WCS Colombia 💚
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🦈More than 1/4 of the 128,918 animal, plant & fungi species assessed by @IUCN in its update are now threatened with #extinction
🐸The latest @IUCNredlist has 31 new extinctions including #frogs and freshwater #fish
@REUTERSFARGE via @Reuters
reuters.com/article/global-e…
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🏙️🌆'The use of coal, oil & natural gas for heating, lighting and cooking fuelled a rise in #emissions from the operation of #buildings to about 10 Gts last year, incl. direct and indirect emissions from power generation.' - @Join_GlobalABC
📰@Reuters
reuters.com/article/climate-…
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🌿🌻 '#Nature and #biodiversity underpin all dimensions of human health and contribute to non-material aspects of quality of life.'
— @IPBES #GlobalAssessment
#ForNature
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What is lost due to #extinction and why are humans the largest threat?🐯
"A species’ genome is a sort of manual; when the #species perishes, that manual is lost. We are, in this sense, plundering a library—the library of life"
✍️@ElizKolbert via @NatGeo
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This week’s @IPBES-@IPCC_CH Co-Sponsored Workshop on #BiodiversityClimateScience has marked the first collaboration at this level
Watch the opening segment feat. @ZacGoldsmith @DefraGovUk, @MarenHHolsen @kldep, Lee Hoesung, @poertner_hans & @ScholesBob
📺bit.ly/IPBES-IPCCWorkshopOpe…
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🌿📖 The @IPBES #GlobalAssessment proposed 5 levers to generate #TransformativeChange to conserve, restore and sustainably use #nature
💭Learn more: ipbes.net/global-assessment
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🦇#DidYouKnow that bats have the longest tongues relative to the body of any mammal in the world? 🦇
@natgeo showcases a particularly fascinating and important #species—the tube-lipped nectar bat, which serves as a #pollinator for some flowers 🌺🌻🌸
National Geographic
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