📣 Registration for #IPBES8 plenary session, regional consultations & #IPBESStakeholders days now open💻
🌎7-11 June: Regional consultations
🌍3-9 June: Stakeholder Days
🌏14-24 June: #IPBES8 Plenary Session
Find out more & register by 17 May⬇️
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The sea ice in the #Arctic is melting more & more each year🐻❄️
In this @ConversationUK podcast, experts explain how melting ice in the far north is bringing more light to the #ArcticOcean & what this means for the species that live there❄️
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🌲"Destruction of #habitat and encroachment of humans and livestock into biodiverse habitats🦋provide new pathways for pathogens to spill over and increase transmission rates"🦠
—@IPBES #PandemicsReport
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“We are all future ancestors, challenged to renew the earth for coming generations. This is humanity’s joint endeavor to save our home” 🏡🌏
– Joji Cariño, Indigenous Ibaloi activist and Senior Policy Advisor at @ForestPeoplesP
bit.ly/16-restoring-women #ThinkLandscape
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All #IPBESStakeholders are invited to register now📲💻 for the virtual @IPBES Stakeholder Days to be held from 3 - 9 June 2021 before the 8th session of the Plenary (#IPBES8)
Register here👉 ipbes.net/ipbes-8/stakeholde…
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"The way forward?
🌊Transformative, systemic change across the world
🌫️Reduce carbon dioxide emissions
🦋Conserve & restore #biodiversity
🏭Minimize pollution and waste
🔬It’s #science"
—Julia Carabias, @IPBES expert from @UNAM_MX & @SEMARNAT_mx
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👩🔬👩🦳🧕'Less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women, & only about 1/3 of female students choose STEM-related fields in higher education'
—Ana María Hernández Salgar, @IPBES Chair in her message for the National Biodiversity Authority of India #InternationalWomensDay event
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🌏For #IWD2021, @GlobalLF spotlights 16 exceptional women around the globe, aged 13 to 86, leading the transformational change our planet needs: bit.ly/16-restoring-women #IWD2021
👩👩🌾👩🎓👩💻👩🔬
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The @IPBES Secretariat wishes you a happy #InternationalWomensDay!
🧕👩 👩🚀 👩🏽🎓👩🏽🔬 👧🏿👩🏻🌾
Women & girls play key roles in careers that directly benefit our people & our #planet🌿
#ChoosetoChallenge #ForNature
w/@UNBonn @UNWomen_Germany
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I #ChooseToChallenge even more women & girls to step forward into leadership roles in communities, institutions, & organizations in every part of the world💚
—@Anamariamojita, @IPBES Chair in her message for the National Biodiversity Authority of India #IWD2021 event
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Women and girls play key roles for #sustainability & #biodiversity🌳
🧕👩 👩🚀 👩🏽🎓👩🏽🔬 👧🏿👩🏻🌾
This #InternationalWomensDay on 8 March (and every day!) let's celebrate women leaders #ForNature 🌿
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💭#DYK that #peacocks are technically always males? ♂️🦚
♀️ 🦚Females are, in fact, peahens & together they are called peafowl
This one was spotted roaming free on the grounds of Ariana Park in Geneva🇨🇭
🎥@UNgeneva
United Nations Geneva
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A little weekend project... 🕷️
🕰️#DYK that spider webs have existed for at least 110 million years?
Many 🕷️ build webs specifically to catch insects to eat
🎥@AnimalsWorld
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'#FoodWaste has become a growing concern because of the environmental toll of production, incl. the land required to raise crops & animals and the greenhouse gas emissions produced along the way'
—New @UNEP #FoodWaste Index Report🍲
📰@candicechoi @AP
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Nature's everyday miracles are mesmerizing 🌎🐙
Watch this baby #octopus change from a translucent white to a brownish color as it leaves its egg sac🐙
🎥@VAAquarium
Virginia Aquarium
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Small-scale fisheries employ ~90% of the world's fishers & provide 1/2 the fish for human consumption 🎣
Coastal communities at the forefront of #ClimateChange reveal valuable approaches to foster adaptability & resilience🐟
🔎@Stanford @DeeNature
phys.org/news/2021-03-small-…
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Are you working online #ForNature?🌿💻
Discover @IPBES virtual backgrounds and choose one from the series spotlighting genetic, species and ecosystem #biodiversity🦋🌊🥕
Download for free here 👉dropbox.com/sh/3ysmot7cls3zx…
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Global #foodwaste constitutes 17% of the food available for human consumption 🗺️🍇🥬🌽
This has substantial negative environmental, #climate, social & economic impacts 😰💸
Learn more about this data in the new #FoodWasteIndex report by @UNEP & @WRAP_UK: unep.org/news-and-stories/pr…
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🦠Microbes have evolved within #species of #wildlife
🌳These microbes become emerging infectious diseases when human-led environmental change brings wildlife, livestock and people into contact
—@IPBES #PandemicsReport
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