"I will quote a notice I saw on a bus in New Delhi when I was a very young woman:
“If everyone shifts a little, there is room for all.”
That quote I give to you because as inhabitants of this good planet Earth if everybody shifts a little there is room for all"
—@andersen_inger
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The motto of @UNBonn, "Shaping a Sustainable Future," came to life as Inger Andersen of @UNEnvironment joined Patricia Espinosa of @UNFCCC, Ibrahim Thiaw of @UNCCD and @OlivieradamUNV of @UNVolunteers for a joint Townhall.
"Every choice matters." —@andersen_inger
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“#LandDegradation, #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity loss are three pieces of the same puzzle.”
“Ecosystem restoration is one of the best solutions to climate change."
—@ibrahimthiaw, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification @UNCCD
Aug 22, 2019 · 8:17 AM UTC
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“With #ClimateChange, you can not give up and you cannot just rest. Because the emergency is ongoing. It's every day."
"It's not just climate change, but the #environment in general.”
—@PEspinosaC, Executive Secretary of UN #ClimateChange @UNFCCC
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“What we do now in these next few years or not will forever determine the trajectory of planet Earth."
"Never before have human actions - or inaction - been that determinant of the trajectory of the planet."
—@andersen_inger, Executive Director of @UNEnvironment
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“The @UNCCD COP in India will be the ‘Starter’s Pistol’ for the 2020 ‘Super Year’ for nature, to pull together the globe for action” —@andersen_inger
@UNBiodiversity #Biodiversity2020
@BonnConvention
@IUCN #IUCNCongress
#Post2020
#NewDealforNature
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