🔬Science & knowledge are key to preventing & addressing #pandemics:
"Fair & equitable access and benefit-sharing derived from genetic resources have led to more equitable access to #vaccines & therapeutics"
—@IPBES #PandemicsReport
ipbes.net/pandemics #WorldHealthDay
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Policy changes CAN transform lives for the better.
In a world of increasing complexity, having the best evidence is vital to make better decisions - this is also why @IPBES exists🌿
@WEF shows what well-informed decision-making can do in just one country
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📣 Registrations for #IPBES8 plenary session, regional consultations & #IPBESStakeholders days are open💻
🌎7-11 June: Regional consultations
🌍3-9 June: Stakeholder Days
🌏14-24 June: #IPBES8 Plenary Session
Find out more & register by 17 May⬇️
ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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🌳🦜Special Call for Proposals by @Amazon_RJF & @pulitzercenter: The Destruction of the #Amazon during the #Pandemic
✍🏽Journalists, editors, & independent media organizations are invited to submit proposals for grants by 15 April
More info ➡️rainforestjournalismfund.org…
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😷~1.7 million currently undiscovered viruses are thought to exist in mammal & avian hosts
🦠~631,000-827,000 could have the ability to infect humans
For #WorldHealthDay, learn about the links btw. biodiversity & pandemics w/ @WWF #Connect2Earth, citing @IPBES #PandemicsReport
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That depends very directly on your worldview- there are many communities, esp. #IndigenousPeoples around the world that regard nature as a living entity with very particular states of being - health certainly being one of these.
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Today is #WorldHealthDay
We already know that our #health depends on #biodiversity for food🌾, air🌳, water💧 etc.
🦠The @IPBES #PandemicsReport also showed that #pandemic risk is driven by biodiversity loss
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⏰Live now⏰
#Connect2Earth Global Health Talks featuring @PeterDaszak
Tune in via @WWF @YouTube ➡️youtube.com/V1Hcf5arCis
Join the #WorldHealthDay talk with @PeterDaszak, a zoologist & disease ecology expert & @IPBES #PandemicsReport Chair
Learn about the links between our health, the planet & pandemic risk🦠
#Connect2Earth 👉panda.org/health-talks
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What do you think when you hear the word 'pandemic'?💭
Join a talk with @PeterDaszak exploring this and other questions related to biodiversity and pandemics.
📅#WorldHealthDay 7 April, 12pm GMT 👉panda.org/health-talks
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There is no health without nature🌿
To escape the 'era of pandemics' will require us to change our relationship with nature.
This #WorldHealthDay, we can build a more fair and healthy world for people and #ForNature 💚
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Our health depends on nature's health.
Today and every day.
#WorldHealthDay
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One Nature, One Future
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Young people are the engine of change
@IUCN Global Youth Congress is live
Join the conversation 📢👉iucnyouthsummit.org/
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'The underlying causes of pandemics are the same global environmental changes that drive #biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange'
This #WorldHealthDay, we highlight key messages from @IPBES #PandemicsReport 🦠
📖ipbes.net/pandemics
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Join the #WorldHealthDay talk with @PeterDaszak, a zoologist & disease ecology expert & @IPBES #PandemicsReport Chair
Learn about the links between our health, the planet & pandemic risk🦠
#Connect2Earth 👉panda.org/health-talks
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The next generation of:
📢Leaders
✌️Activists
🎥Storytellers
🔬Scientists
🙌Change-makers
is here.
@IUCN’s fully virtual Global Youth Summit starts this week and participation is free
iucnyouthsummit.org
#IUCNcongress @iucngys
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🍄@IPBES assessment of the #SustainableUse of wild #species🌿🍏
✍️The 2nd external review of the chapters & the 1st external review of the summary for policymakers will open from 15 April to 10 June - make your voice & expertise heard!
➡️ipbes.net/sites/default/file…
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Can you count all the ways biodiversity supports #GlobalHealth?
🍲🦠🔬😷🤒🍏🥦🐔🏃🌊🌺
For #WorldHealthDay on 7 April, we highlight some of the many links between nature and human health
Learn more in this video by @UNBiodiversity 🌿
#ForNature
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🌊'Children were given some key scientific results to make them understand the problem & issues at stake, then they improvised
They have something to tell you.
Watch.
Listen.'
📽️Watch the whole performance at #IPBES7 w/@ird_fr & Les Arts en Scène ➡️youtube.com/DsVz4lESbOE
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It's about life
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This year, UNESCO celebrates the 50th anniversary of the @UNESCO_MAB #BiosphereReserves Programme
That's 50 years of working #ForNature 🌿
🎥@UNESCO
UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳
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🌊〰️How do #tsunamis work?
Tsunamis are caused by energy originating underwater, most commonly an earthquake on the ocean floor💥
Learn more via @TEDCountdown @TEDTalks
ted.com/talks/alex_gendler_h…
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