#MarineHeatwaves occur when ocean temperatures are much warmer than expected for the location & time of the year & for an extended period of time 🌡️🌊
A new paper in @ScienceMagazine examines the impacts of MHW on ecosystem services globally
🎨@thembauk
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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💭#DYK... Conserving intact peatlands provides essential ecosystem services such as regulating water cycles, purifying water, and supporting a wealth of biodiversity.
Read @RamsarConv new guidance on restoring #Peat for #ClimateAction #COP26
👉bit.ly/3BfbDc3
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"Choose ambition. Choose solidarity. Choose to safeguard our future and save humanity."
In a speech to #COP26, @antonioguterres called on the world to work together #ForNature 🌎🌍🌏
#TogetherForOurPlanet
António Guterres
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The world has come #TogetherForOurPlanet🌿
Biodiversity loss & #ClimateChange are two sides of the same coin. Neither will be successfully resolved unless both are tackled together.
For #COP26, let's revisit some of the key messages on climate from @IPBES #GlobalAssessment📖⬇️
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Mangroves are critical to addressing #ClimateChange🌳💧🦆
They store over 21 billion tons of CO2 & sequester carbon 4 x faster than terrestrial forests.
New @RamsarConv guidance for scaling blue carbon for #ClimateAction #COP26 bit.ly/3vHuVFK
bit.ly/3vHuVFK
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📢The external review period of the draft scoping report of the @IPBES #BizBiodiversity assessment is open until 13 December📢
👉Register to review the draft scoping report & join stakeholder dialogue on 18 November: ipbes.net/registration/busin…
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Global land-surface temperature anomalies since 1880, presented in 40 seconds 🌡️📈
'The warming trend is very clear & not many colder than average days observed in the recent years'
🎥@anttilip, based on @BerkeleyEarth data
#COP26 #TogetherForOurPlanet
Antti Lipponen / @anttilip.bsky.social
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Save the date📅
Ninth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (@IPBES)
#IPBES9 will be preceded by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 2 July 2022
ipbes.net/notification/save-…
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Pollution is one of the 5 drivers of change in nature with the largest global impact.
A recent report from @UNEP highlights that plastic accounts for 85% of marine litter 🌊🐠🌱🐙
More from on how to #BeatPollution #CleanSeas👉
unep.org/interactive/polluti…
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🌍🧪Happy World Science Day for Peace and Development🌍🧪
#WorldScienceDay highlights the importance of science in our daily lives, the significant role of science in society & the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues
un.org/en/observances/world-…
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Coming up: #WorldBiodiversitySummit Part III @COP26📌
The Summit will discuss the links between biodiversity and climate with an aim to accelerate investment-driven solutions to the biodiversity crisis🌿
Learn more via @wclimate worldbiodiversitysummit.org/…
#COP26 #ForNature
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Congrats Prof. Sepp Settele! @IPBES #GlobalAssessment co-chair, awarded the Heinz Sielmann Nature Conservation Prize for commitment to the preservation of biodiversity
He was also honored by a species of moth being named: Setteleia🦋
sielmann-stiftung.de/artikel…
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A new report from @WWF has found that countries are increasingly recognizing the value of #NatureBasedSolutions in their efforts to address the climate crisis
90% of the updated NDCs assessed in the study incl. nature-based solutions🌿
wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?3069…
#COP26 #ForNature
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What are the climate gaps that the world is facing? And why are they important?💭🌡️
Explore the new infographic from @UNEP, bringing together key messages from the latest Emissions Gap, Adaptation Gap & Production Gap Reports 2021 & from @IPCC’s #ClimateReport (AR6).
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"Climate change and biodiversity [loss] are inseparable threats. One cannot be tackled without tackling the other.
We are hugely grateful on behalf of the @COP26 Presidency to @IPBES for the joint workshop with @IPCC_CH."
George Foster, @DefraGovUK
👉 wwf.panda.org/?4238891/NDCS-…
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"But science has also told us that we have options for action & that we can still reverse course if we act urgently & take bold actions informed by science."
Read full remarks by Anne Larigauderie, @IPBES Executive Secretary from the @FPA2 Award Ceremony
ipbes.net/node/38979
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📢The external review period of the draft scoping report of the @IPBES #BizBiodiversity assessment is open📢
✨2 November - 13 December✨
👉Register as a user at @IPBES website: ipbes.net/user/register
👉Register to review the draft assessment: ipbes.net/registration/busin…
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Plants, trees, insects, animals, nature, biodiversity...
🌱🌲🐝🐔🐒🌻🍄
"Space makes you realize how vital biodiversity really is, and that without it, we are lost."
—@thom_astro, @FAO Goodwill Ambassador & @esa astronaut
#COP26
Food and Agriculture Organization
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The ocean is our life source...🌊✨
Yet @IPBES #GlobalAssessment found that overexploitation of organisms, land- & sea-based pollution, coastal development for infrastructure & aquaculture were some of the human activities with the largest impact on the ocean
#COP26
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What are the goals at @COP26?🌿🌡️✅
This year’s #COP26 will aim to reach a consensus on actions to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and to secure net-zero emissions by 2050.
via @AJEnglish @hannaduggal
aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/4…
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