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Upcoming 📣
The focus of @IPBES 10 will be the assessment of invasive alien species and their control
Invasive species are a driver of #biodiversity loss, but the growing threat they pose is poorly quantified and little understood by decision makers
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The @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report is planned for launch on 4 Sep - after #IPBES10
What do its 6 detailed chapters address?
Chapter 1⃣ specifies concepts, terminology & risks.
🚨Stay tuned:
ipbes.net/ipbes-10/primers
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#GEFassembly2023 begins August 22nd amid:
🌡 record-high temperatures
🔥 uncontrollable wildfires
🌊 deadly flooding
Read about the need for collaboration across countries, sectors & people to heal the planet: wrld.bg/IkvB50PAFtz #HealthyPlanetHealthyPeople
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The #GEFassembly2023 logo centers on working together to take meaningful climate action. It includes representations of endangered species, as well as air, water, land and forests. 🍃🌊🌎🌲
Learn more about the Assembly happening next week: wrld.bg/xeIn50PABNO
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Clean water is not a privilege.
It is a human right.
Yet, 2 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water around the world.
Ensuring access to clean & safe water supplies is essential for people to lead safe, productive & healthy lives. #GlobalGoals
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When managed sustainably, forests stabilise our climate and secure our future.
#ClimateAction
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📢 #SaveTheDate for the launch of @IPBES' #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report! 🦎🌱🍄
🌐 With 13,000+ references from scientific literature, government reports, and Indigenous and local knowledge, will help inform decisions and actions.
Stay tuned: ipbes.net/ipbes-10/primers
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Another important report from IPBES due soon, and another reminder that biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are as big a threat as climate change
Not to mention the compound threats from combined climate change & biodiversity loss
🌍 4+ years of research & collaboration has shaped the @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report!
🔍With 13K+ references, it captures the latest evidence on invasive alien species worldwide.
Planned Launch: 4 Sep, after #IPBES10!
🚨Stay tuned: ipbes.net/ipbes-10/primers
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💥@IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report launch is coming soon (planned for 4 Sep)!
Get ready for it with new virtual backgrounds focused on invasive alien species, their impacts & drivers 🌱🌏
💻 Download them for FREE⬇️
#IPBES10
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Research by @claytrau, a fire specialist, has shown that invasive plants have caused an increase in wildfires in Hawaii 🇺🇸 from the early 1900s to the 2010s.
🗣️“When the land gets abandoned, the grasses are the first invaders."
🗞️@heatmap_news
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🗓️ Coming soon! The @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report planned launch on 4 Sep 2023 after #IPBES10
📚 13K+ references
🌍 Insights from 86 experts from 49 countries
⏳ 4+ years of research
More info: ipbes.net/ipbes-10/primers @UKLadybirds
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The global average temperature for July 2023 is confirmed to be the highest on record for any month.
@WMO attributed the long-term warming trend to continued increases in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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Erosion is one of the major threats to soil & to global #FoodSecurity.
But what is #soilerosion & how does it occur? 🧵👇
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Invasive Alien Species: IPBES Assessment Report Will Tackle One of the Five Leading Direct Drivers of the Biodiversity Crisis: ipbes.net/sites/default/file… @TNFD_ @IUCN
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Have you ever seen a bird with blue feet? 🤔⤵️
#DYK Blue-footed boobies live off the western coasts of Central & South America? 🌎
The Galapagos Islands population comprises around half of all breeding pairs of blue-footed boobies. 🇪🇨
🎥@NatureIs_Lit
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