New ecosystem-based adaptation programme promotes value of forests for sustainable future.👇🏽
"It aims to increase the climate resilience of vulnerable communities & ecosystems in rural areas of Costa Rica 🇨🇷, Guatemala 🇬🇹 & Ecuador 🇪🇨"
🗞️@TheTicoTimes
ticotimes.net/2023/03/23/cos…
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Our tireless @ipbes experts: 💪🏽
After the 2nd author meeting for the #NexusAssessment, the Co-Chairs and Coordinating Lead Authors stayed on longer to also work on the Summary for Policymakers & to address comments from the external review process.
Indefatigable #ForNature
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Are you working online #ForNature?🌿💻
@ipbes is happy to share our new virtual backgrounds!
Choose the ones you like most and showcase the beauty of #biodiversity: from species to genetics and ecosystems.🦋🫘🌊
Download them for free👇🏽
bit.ly/2023Backgrounds
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The 20th meetings of the @IPBES MEP & Bureau are wrapping up today.📢
Thank you to everyone, from all over the world, for participating virtually in support of the work of IPBES #ForNature! 👇🏽🌍📷
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#DYK that mangrove forests are threatened by human activities and are disappearing at an alarming rate?🤔
Take a look at this infographic by @datamares and discover more about mangroves and their ecosystem services in Mexico. 🇲🇽
#ForNature
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Who are #IPBESstakeholders? What's their role?
Find out more w/ Luthando Dziba, @ipbes Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) Co-chair, who encourages stakeholders to keep engaging w/ IPBES to achieve broader societal goals👇
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“The description of the endangered Italian 🇮🇹 alpine newt in a disused mine has shone a light on the #biodiversity hiding in the Carrara marble quarries of Tuscany.”
🗞️@monicapelliccia for @guardian👇🏽
theguardian.com/environment/…
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It's a P2 UN staff position - remuneration and benefits can be calculated for the Bonn duty station here: careers.un.org/lbw/home.aspx…
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Despite being covered in algae and having cataracts, this elderly Common Snapping Turtle filmed by diver Nicholas A. Breaux in Texas' San Marcos River was far from shy and skittish (usual traits for its species). 🐢
Snapping turtles can live up to 40 years or more.
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#Biodiversity & ecosystem services are vulnerable to climate change, erosion & flooding.
Conserving, protecting, restoring ecosystems & adapting to the inevitable #ClimateChange impacts reduces their vulnerability & may increase carbon storage.
—@ipcc_ch AR6 Synthesis Report
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📣WE ARE HIRING!
🌿Do you love #biodiversity & want to communicate science #ForNature?
💻Do you have professional experience managing #SocialMedia?
🐦This opportunity is for you!
Apply by MAY 13 ⬇️
careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail…
#CommsJobs
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💥The Summary for Policymakers of the @ipbes #ValuesAssessment is NOW available in Japanese.🇯🇵
Thanks to @moej_climate & @iges_en for courtesy translation so policymakers can have evidence they need to make better policies #ForNature.
🔎 zenodo.org/record/7711981#.Z…
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#HappeningNow
The 20th meetings of @IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) & Bureau.
Shizuka Hashimoto decided to serve as MEP Co-Chair because it "plays an important role to ensure scientific quality of @IPBES products & to oversee the processes of the assessments"📚⬇️📖
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Four-legged detectives are scouring Italy's 🇮🇹 olive fields 🫒 to sniff out Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium which has already decimated orange fields in Brazil, vineyards in southern California, and pear trees in Taiwan.
More from @petroniagostino: bbc.com/future/article/20230…
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The Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) advises on scientific & technical aspects of @ipbes work.
Co-chair Luthando Dziba also wants to ensure that IPBES remains relevant & responsive to emerging issues, as with the #PandemicsReport during the #COVID19 pandemic. 📖
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Marine habitats are ecologically connected.🌊🌿
The connectivity of ecosystems suggests direct transfer of carbon, nutrients and sediments, & is also important for the movement of marine fauna across different habitats.
Learn more w/ the infographic by @gridarendal👇
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Today is the 1st ever #ZeroWasteDay!
According to the @ipbes #GlobalAssessment, pollution is one of the 5 main direct drivers of #biodiversity loss.🐢
Find out what the day is all about and how you can take action to #FightPollution 👉un.org/en/observances/zero-w…
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"The effect cats have isn't just limited to predation – the recent boom in feral cat populations is even being felt in #NewZealand's marine environment," writes @kosmofoto, examining how feral & domesticated cats are impacting 🇳🇿's ecosystems.
Read more: bbc.com/future/article/20230…
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Congratulations to 🎉
🔹Ximena Rueda Fajardo of @AdmonUniandes ,
🔹Matt Jones (@mij_matt) of @unepwcmc &
🔹Stephen Polasky of @ApEcMN
on being selected as co-chairs for the new @IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment! 📗
Read more: ⬇️
ipbes.net/news/BizBiodiversi…
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#HappeningNow
@IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) & Bureau are currently holding their 20th meetings.
The role of the MEP is to "ensure the scientific quality & policy relevance to make IPBES products more impactful".
Learn more w/ Shizuka Hashimoto, MEP co-chair⬇️
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