A new article in @NaturePortfolio proposes a co-produced Multidimensional Biodiversity Index (MBI) to connect #biodiversity science to the political agenda that accounts for the diversity of values underpinning nature–human relationships.
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We now live in a changed #climate⏳
The kinds of extreme weather events we are seeing now across all regions will keep growing in strength and frequency unless we rapidly cut #carbon emissions
Learn more w/ @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport bit.ly/WGICC2021
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#BREAKING: @UNBiodiversity has announced new dates for #COP15
The meetings will be held in two parts:
📅11 to 15 October 2021, virtually, with a High-Level Segment
📅25 April to 8 May 2022, face-to-face in Kunming, China
👉cbd.int/article/new-dates-co…
#ForNature #Post2020
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"Climate change is here, now.
But we are also here, now.
And if we don't act, who will?"
—@UNEP chief @andersen_inger on the need for urgent #ClimateAction in the wake of major @IPCC_CH report on the worsening threat of the climate emergency
🎥@UN
United Nations
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Comprising less than 5% of the world's population, #indigenous peoples are stewards of 80% of global #Biodiversity.
Learn more from @NatGeo 👇 #WeAreIndigenous
nationalgeographic.com/envir…
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Brenda Asuncion, Hui Mālama Loko Iʻa Coordinator of @kuahawaii invites the international community to support resilient #Indigenous #FoodSystems 🌽
Want to learn more? Subscribe to @IUCN's 'Stewarding the Earth' 👉 is.gd/0cSKiW
#IUCN_IPSummit #IUCNcongress
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Governments & relevant organizations or institutions are invited to submit their offers to host the technical support unit for the #TransformativeChangeAssessment
Deadline: 31 August 2021📅
Learn more👉 ipbes.net/notification/call_…
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The urgency is in the air.
'We know what to do. We know how to do it. The only question is whether we will do it, though from activists to scientists many already are, wholeheartedly.'
@guardian on @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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📖#NowReading: Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities: the Power of #NatureBasedSolutions
@ICLEI, @UNDP & @UNEP investigate the potential of NbS to help build smart, sustainable & resilient cities🏙️
Learn more: citieswithnature.org/tools-a…
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✨#UNBonn25: Listen to science made in Bonn — research driving global debates
feat. Jakob Rhyner of @bonnalliance, @imme_scholz of @DIE_GDI, @lfreuden_lisa of @ZEF @UniBonn, @Koko_Warner of @UNFCCC & @rspaull of @IPBES
📅24 Aug 2021
⏰5pm
🗣️German
💻eveeno.com/163003963
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'The @IPBES [#GlobalAssessment] report, also the result of [...] years of work by hundreds of scientists, came to similar conclusions as the @IPCC_CH: the business-as-usual scenario will be incredibly harmful for the planet'
📰@Agulhas_
agulhas.co.uk/2021/08/16/cod…
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💧🌿#IndigenousPeoples are one of the key stewards & defenders of the world’s #biodiversity
Learn more from @IUCN's ‘Stewarding the Earth’ 🌎➡️ is.gd/0cSKiW
#IUCN_IPSummit #IUCNcongress
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Become an @IPBES fellow!💻💡🙋
Invitation to outstanding early-career individuals: apply to participate in the IPBES #NexusAssessment & #TransformativeChange assessments through the IPBES Fellowship Program
Apply by 20 Sept & Learn more👉ipbes.net/ipbes-fellowship-p…
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Trees alone cannot reverse the dangerous decline of nature, but @IPBES #GlobalAssessment showcased their many invaluable contributions #NatureBasedSolutions
🎋Reduce air pollution
🌴Mitigate #ClimateChange
🌲Create green infrastructure
🌳And many more!
BBC Ideas💡
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The @IPBES #PandemicsReport experts estimate the cost of reducing risks to prevent pandemics to be 100 times less than the cost of responding to such pandemics, providing strong economic incentives for #TransformativeChange🦠
@RHarrabin via @BBCNews
bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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Pollinators are under threat🐝
A meta-analysis reveals that the combination of agrochemicals, parasites & malnutrition has a cumulative negative effect on bees & that pesticide–pesticide interactions increase bee mortality
🔍@harrysiviter @EmilyJBailes
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Although indigenous peoples’ lands and territories encompass up to 22% of the global land surface, they coincide with areas that hold approx. 80% of the planet’s biodiversity
—from #SOWIP 2021 Report
#WeAreIndigenous
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'The greenhouse gases humans have released into the atmosphere over the past 100-150 years [have] led to a 1.1°C (2°F) rise in global temperatures'
—according to @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport 🌡️ via
@johnccannon @mongabay
news.mongabay.com/2021/08/hu…
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Meet the glasswing butterfly🦋
You can recognize them by their transparent wings that provide camouflage without colouration ✨
Do you know of any other 'transparent' species?
🎥@wonderofscience
Wonder of Science
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