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Addressing the crisis of plastic pollution in our most productive and sensitive ecosystems is essential, not just for the ecosystems themselves and the natural life that they support, but for our own health and socio-economic wellbeing.
#INC3
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📆DEADLINE EXTENDED📆
🌐Help strengthen @IPBES work on scenarios & models.💡
🎯Experts in qualitative & quantitative approaches to scenarios, models & other studies are invited to apply to join our Task Force on Scenarios and Models
Apply by 19 Nov ⬇️
ipbes.net/application/scenar…
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Today is #OneHealth Day.
Have you heard of One Health❓
It’s a relationship between humans, animals, plants & the environment. It relies on the understanding of how human actions and policies could affect animal, plant & environment health & how it impacts humans as a result.
Learn more 👉bit.ly/40oYtHz
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Insightful piece in @nytimes about impacts of global warming on the nonhuman world, featuring @IPBES Chair, @dobura 👏🏾
"In real physical terms, we need to shift how we consume on the planet, because we have exceeded the limits" 🌏
✍️🏾🗞️@CatrinEinhorn
nytimes.com/2023/10/26/magaz…
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#DYK #SoilBiodiversity is a NATURE-BASED SOLUTION❗
🧠 Interesting Fact: only 1% of #Soil micro-organisms species are currently known, compared to over 80% of plants.
#SoilHealth #SoilAction #SaveSoil
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We invite your perspectives! 📢
Governments & stakeholders are invited to submit their views on the future role of the policy support function of @IPBES!
Submit by 6 Jan 2024 ⤵️
ipbes.net/notification/call-…
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Water is vital to us all, so everyone needs to save water!
🥪Reduce your food waste. It takes a lot of water to produce food & to get it from the field to our plate.
Lost & wasted food also means wasted water.
Every drop counts. Your actions, big or small, can make a difference
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🌿 Keen to contribute to @IPBES assessments & task forces?
Confused by the various open calls & deadlines?🤔
🤝 We've got you covered!
🔎Check out our handy table for a clear path to participation: ipbes.net/node/59214
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🦧Accelerating extinctions
💧Groundwater depletion
❄️Mountain glaciers melting
🛰️Space debris
🌡Unbearable heat
🏚️Uninsurable future
...are 6 risk tipping points, according to @UNUEHS #InterconnectedRisks report, threatening the planet.
🗞@FRANCE24
france24.com/en/live-news/20…
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Fresh water from mountains is vital for achieving global #FoodSecurity.
#DYK that some of the world's largest cities, including New York, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, Tokyo & Melbourne, depend on freshwater from mountains?
More👉 bit.ly/3Fz6z7y
#MountainsMatter
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Most important is for global #biodiversity crisis to be tackled ⬇️
"Whether the figure used by decision-makers is 1 million or even more at risk of extinction – the urgency of the crisis remains." 🌿🌏
🗞️ @phoeb0 in @guardian
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Forests cover 1/3 of the Earth and are vital to our climate and future.
Here is how UNEP is working towards healthy, sustainably managed forests worldwide.
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Nature in all its beauty 📸 🌿
@nature_org has announced the winners of their 2023 photo contest.
Astonishing images that show us the power and peril of the natural world.
Discover the winners⬇️
nature.org/en-us/get-involve…
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#DYK? 140 million+ Indians are exposed to severe #AirPollution every year.
#Forests🌳 are one of the best ways to control pollution🏭.
Home to millions of plants🌿& animals🐯, they also protect us from diseases & natural disasters🌪️
Let's conserve forests #ForPeopleForPlanet.
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📢 SEMINAR ALERT📢
The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management, @miljodir, is hosting a seminar on @IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies!
📆When? TODAY at 12 p.m.
🗣️Language? Norwegian
🔗Access the streaming to watch the broadcast live⬇️
miljodirektoratet.no/aktuelt…
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💥DEADLINE EXTENDED💥
🌍Passionate about #biodiversity?🐾
🔍@IPBES invites nominations for experts to help scope #GlobalAssessment2!
🎯Experts in natural, social sciences, policy & more. Interdisciplinary & diverse nominations encouraged!
📅19 Nov: ipbes.net/application/second…
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#ClimateAction should be rapidly accelerating, but it is not. Progress on climate adaptation is slowing on all fronts.
UNEP's 2023 #AdaptationGap Report outlines urgent actions needed in three key areas: finance, planning, and implementation. unep.org/resources/adaptatio…
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“It is perhaps most important to remember that whether the figure being used by policy- and decision-makers is 1 million or even more – the urgency and priority of the global biodiversity crisis remains,” said Anne Larigauderie, (IPBES).
ecowatch.com/threatened-spec…
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What are #BiosphereReserves?🤔
@UNESCO defines them as:
"Sites for testing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding & managing changes & interactions between social & ecological systems, including conflict prevention & management of #biodiversity"
unesco.org/en/mab/wnbr/about
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