Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay 🐸🌎
Amid rising pressure to address the linked climate and biodiversity crises together, restoring peatlands is essential for a healthy and sustainable future.
Learn more about the importance of #peatlands via @RamsarConv👉 ramsar.org/guiding-peatland-…
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Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay 🌿📅
💭#DYK... Conserving intact peatlands provides essential ecosystem services such as regulating water cycles, purifying water, and supporting a wealth of biodiversity.
Read @RamsarConv guidance on restoring #Peat
👉bit.ly/3BfbDc3
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Join IPBES Programme Management Team in Bonn 🇩🇪
Work at the very heart of the @IPBES work programme and support the planning and implementation of activities and processes.
Application deadline is 4 June 2022: bit.ly/IPBES_G5
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The world is facing interconnected environmental crises, including🌡#ClimateChange and🥀loss of biodiversity and nature.
Join #WorldEnvironmentDay on June 5th, highlighting there's #OnlyOneEarth🌎
📷 @UNEP
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New paper building on the #BiodiversityClimateScience of the IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop on #biodiversity and #climatechange @OUPAcademic @PamMcElwee @hienngo @sarah_e_diamond @FutureEnvLaw
New output stemming from ongoing IPCC-IPBES collaboration focused on the need and challenges to catalyze transformative change to effectively and equitably govern the biodiversity-climate-society nexus. academic.oup.com/bioscience/….
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Do you know the difference between a honeybee and a bumblebee?
Learn more about the 🦋🐝🐦 from the Educational Toolkit on #EUPollinators from @EU_ENV 👉
wikis.ec.europa.eu/display/E…
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TODAY 👇⤵️📢
📢COMING UP: 5th Meeting of the @IPBES capacity-building forum
📅1 June
⏰2-4.30 pm CEST
💬Business and biodiversity networks, businesses & other IPBES stakeholders, members & observers are invited to participate in the meeting.
💻 ipbes.net/events/5th-meeting…
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"Today, we overfish, we cut down forests, we destroy nature. And it counts as positive economic growth, when, in fact, it is profligate waste...that is undermining our society's viability."
—@antonioguterres, @UN Secretary-General at the #BiodiversityPreCOP2021 #ForNature
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🌡️🦋💡#Biodiversity loss & #ClimateChange are both driven by human economic activities & mutually reinforce each other
How can we successfully resolve both crises?💭
Learn more w/ #BiodiversityClimateScience from @IPBES & @IPCC_CH co-sponsored w/shop Report
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Preventing pollution, limiting #ClimateChange, and restoring nature and #biodiversity is an opportunity to improve the quality of life for billions of people.
Coming on 2-3 June in 🇸🇪 @StockholmPlus50👉stockholm50.global
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Turtles have to breathe within a rigid box. So how do some of them do it?💭🐢
#SciArt by @SecondNatureMB
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Planet Earth is facing multiple threats, all of which are interconnected and linked to human activity.
Climate change and #biodiversity loss are the two sides of the same coin.
🐞@JaneGoodallInst calls for action #ForNature 🐸
📸@UNESCO
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Land degradation has had, and will have, severe impacts on crop production & supply chains in #Africa.
Regenerative agriculture has been found to be an important part of the solution.
Learn more from a report from @IUCN, @hlcchampions & African partners bit.ly/3jA5rVQ
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"We also highlight with concern the findings of the @IPBES, indicating that ~1 million species [of plants & animals] are threatened by extinction, many within decades (...)"
#G7 calls to tackle the Climate, Energy & Environment Agenda Together
g7germany.de/resource/blob/9…
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'For centuries we've been able to consider freshwater a free resource'
'We need to put a value on freshwater in order to manage it in a more resilient and responsible way'—@jrockstrom
@GloriaDickie about @watercommongood 💧
reuters.com/business/environ…
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Every business relies on nature and therefore the role of business is critical to delivering a #NaturePositive world by 2030🌎🟢
Explore the high-level business actions outlined by @BfNCoalition to provide companies with options they can take #ForNature🌿
businessfornature.org/high-l…
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Soils host a quarter of our planet's biodiversity🐛
Soil is one of nature's most complex ecosystems: it contains a myriad of organisms that interact and contribute to the global cycles that make all life possible.
Learn about soils & biodiversity w/@FAO
#SoilBiodiversity
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Wetlands are disappearing 🦆💧
According to @RamsarConv, nearly 90% of the world’s wetlands have been degraded since the 1700s, and we are losing wetlands three times faster than forests.
Learn more via ramsar.org
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There's nothing like having a turtle BFF...
Humans are not the only ones who know a thing or two about friendship. Check out these friendly turtles helping each other out🐢
🎥@FBiodiversidad @GorgeousPlanet_
Funny Gorgeous Animals (by Don Purrleone)
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Restoring #biodiversity, preventing pollution, and limiting #ClimateChange - opportunities to improve the quality of life of billions of people around the world🌎🌍🌏
This is the opportunity of #Stockholm50 🌿
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