"The warmer the world gets, the less food, drinking water & other key contributions nature can make to our lives”🌡️💧🌽
—Prof. Hans-Otto Pörtner, @poertner_hans Co-Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the #BiodiversityClimateScience workshop
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'Nature is already seeing dramatic impacts at the current level of warming.
Coral reefs are being bleached and dying from rising temperatures, while many trees are succumbing to drought.'
—from the latest @IPCC_CH #ClimateReport 🌡️⛈️
✍️@MattMcGrathBBC
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📢#BREAKING📢
The @IPCC_CH released its latest #ClimateReport today.
#Climatechange: a threat to human wellbeing and health of the planet
Taking action now can secure our future🌿🙌
Explore the full report: report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2 📖
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According to @CITES, restoration of ecosystems, if combined with stopping the further conversion of natural ecosystems, may help avoid 60% of expected biodiversity extinctions🐠
Join the #WorldWildlifeDay on 3 March and support the conservation of biodiversity🐘🐳🐢
#WWD2022
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Today the @IPCC_CH will present its report #ClimateChange 2022: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability.
Join the live #ScienceTalks with @UNUEHS senior expert & Deputy Director @ZitaSebesvari to learn more about the report💡
Streamed via @UNUEHS 🎥
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🍄 What is #Biodiversity?
🦁 Why do we need diverse plants and animals?
🌿 What can we do #ForNature?
Follow @IPBES to learn more💡
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Meet the Zeus faber fish🐟
It is a demersal coastal marine fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body with a large dark spot🌑
The spot used to flash an 'evil eye' if danger approaches👁️
🎥@echinoblog @BocioDeBocis
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This year, #WorldWildlifeDay focuses on recovering species for ecosystem restoration.
When we protect and conserve the planet, we safeguard not just the future of other species, but our own as well! 🦧
#WWD2022
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What is the @IPBES Nature Futures Framework? And why is it important for decision-makers?
Watch this short explainer video to learn more 🎥🔎
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The United Nations Environment Programme is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022 🎂🌿
Explore @UNEP’s history and how it has helped shape five decades of environmental milestones and follow #UNEP50 for more
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The health of #pollinators like bees is "directly linked to our own well-being." —Prof. Vera L. Imperatriz-Fonseca
🐝 ➡️ 🥔🌻🍓
Explore @IPBES #PollinationAssessment: ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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What are #peatlands? Why are they important?🌿
Scientists learned that thick brown peat holds a secret: vast stores of carbon sealed underground, and out of the atmosphere, making the 'muck' one of the world’s best carbon sinks
@aznfusion @edenweingart
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#ClimateChange & #BiodiversityLoss are interconnected 🌡️⛈️🌿
What difference does 0.5ºC make?
Learn more from @WWF's infographic💡
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We may not realize it, but all of us use and benefit from wild species.
Algae, fungi, plants & animals - from medicine to food, they’re important parts of our quality of life.
🎧#NatureInsight S02E03 feat. Dr. John Donaldson & @ivonnehiguero of @CITES 👉 link.chtbl.com/NatureInsight…
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🌿 80% of all environmentally harmful subsidies fund fossil fuels, water and harmful agriculture - accelerating the destruction of our planet.
A new brief from @BfNCoalition and @thebteamhq highlights the importance of #SubsidyReform 👉bit.ly/SubsidyReform
#COP15
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Join @IPBES Communications Team! 📸
We are looking for a Public Information Assistant (G6) to be based in the #IPBES Secretariat office in Bonn 🇩🇪
Deadline for applications: 8 March 2022 📅
ipbes.net/vacancy/public_inf…
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Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent, ravaging communities and ecosystems in their path.
The new @UNEP-@GRIDArendal report highlights that #ClimateChange and land-use change are projected to make wildfires more frequent and intense🔥
unep.org/resources/report/sp…
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"There's often this perception that the use of wild species is for somebody else. (...)
It's much more prevalent and widespread across the world. There's not a separation of some people who use and some people who don't."
🎧 #NatureInsight S02E03 out now link.chtbl.com/NatureInsight…
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"Sea levels along U.S. coasts will rise by as much as a foot in the next 30 years as #ClimateChange accelerates, leading to a 'dramatic increase' in millions of Americans’ exposure to flooding," acc. to a recent federal report 🌊🇺🇸
✍️📰@zcolman @politico
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