Did you know that biodiversity loss is one of the biggest threats to businesses? The @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity report urges companies to act now to safeguard nature and their own futures.
Learn more with @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
An IPBES informational image split into two sections. The left side features a quote from David Obura in green text discussing the first-ever fast-track IPBES Assessment, describing its urgency and connection to global biodiversity frameworks. The text is decorated with small nature-themed icons including a frog, tree, butterfly, and crab at the bottom, along with the IPBES logo. The right side shows David Obura at a conference setting seated at a table with a microphone and UN-style flag visible. The speaker is wearing glasses and a dark casual shirt. The image identifies them as "David Obura | IPBES Chair" in white text on a green banner at the bottom.
"This is the 1st fast-track IPBES Assessment, delivered with urgency to support businesses, governments & financial actors in meeting the Global Biodiversity Framework, SDGs & Paris Agreement goals."
—IPBES Chair @davidobura.bsky.social
Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
*This* is leadership. And @davidobura.bsky.social is so obviously right: turning your back on facts doesn't make them go away
Only 1 in 3 researchers worldwide is a woman. This must change.
FAO's Chief Scientist, Charles Spillane, shares why role models, mentorship and systemic change are key to closing the gender gap in science and innovation.
#WomenInScience
Even with Mandelson gone, the current UK Labour Govt cabinet retains his lobby-infected bias -- slashing climate finance to poor and vulnerable countries. Shameful.
You don't know it yet, but you *have* to watch this animation of beavers reshaping river ecosystems.
This is the kind of stuff that sent me into environmental science.
Yes, but Palantir is their client and was when Mandelson as Ambassador introduced Keir Starmer to Palantir in the US before a deal was signed to use them in the NHS and military. Shouldn’t that conflict of interest now be reviewed and investigated?
Meanwhile, across the pond 😬
Whether offering protection from climate change, supporting livelihoods, biodiversity, & more, mangroves benefit us all.
@fao.org & experts have mapped the current state of mangrove forests & how they have changed over time 👉 https://bit.ly/3QdrWRU
#WorldWetlandsDay
Sadly we know only too well how fossil fuel lobbyist operate.
Much has been done to expose them. Yet the paper trail in Mandelson's #EpsteinFiles is truly staggering and may well lead to a criminal investigation. I fear these days lobbyists use other apps to hide such despicable operations.
Suspect the “science is left-wing” speak originated by fossil fuel lobbyists and right-wing politicians to discredit climate scientists.
* Marc !
I feel for journalists covering DAVOS
Imagine having to fact-check Trump's Davo Speech?
Hundreds of pages - longer than Joyce's Ulysses
Trump's "Board of Peace" isn't an international organisation; it's a personal fiefdom.
Its Charter names him personally as chair,subject only to resignation or unanimous vote of incapacity; lets him pick his successor; allows him to hire & fire the executive...
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
"While it is clearly the prerogative of Governments to withdraw from global processes, like those of @ipbes.net, it is important to remember that this does not change the science or the relevance of that science to the lives and livelihoods of people in every community, in every part of the world. 🧪
We will be back and hopefully stronger supporters than ever 💪 In the meantime, our non-governmental organizations will keep the engagement going, and hopefully we can do for @ipbes.net what we are doing for US scientist engagement with IPCC ❤️ !
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IPBES will continue to harness the power of science to inform the actions of those acting for people and nature. Wishing the @ipbes.net and @ipcc.bsky.social communities courage and determination in these sad times.
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
Well worth a read
All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.
It is very sad that he is no longer with us, and attending this year's #COP30 in Brazil.
Well worth watching this balanced, even hopeful analysis by
Alex Thomson #C4News as to what lies ahead for #COP30, the annual climate summit held this year in Belém, Brazil, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) #Video www.channel4.com/news/world-l...
I miss Saleem(ul Huq) every day. When we last spoke, he was dedicating himself to the youth climate movement and mentoring new cohorts. He left a phenomenal legacy. 😔
This is a great 🧵 of films to bookmark and use. Kudos to Aaron for compiling them.
FYI @fisherdanar.bsky.social @hannahdaly.ie
Google wants to build an enormous new data centre in Essex - emitting 570,000 tonnes of CO2 and concreting a local wildlife site. Tell the local council to refuse planning permission! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/th...
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears
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So it does matter if North Sea Oil is drilled. Yes, of course it does.
What a stupid thing to say it doesn’t matter then contradict yourself. I suggest you find another way to pass your time as I’m going to block you from making further comments.
Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
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Equally alarming this Guardian report confirms “there will no longer be a Downing Street adviser on equalities policy." It is unrecognisable as a Labour Government. Hard to believe the last Labour Govt contracted my work/book with Amartya Sen.
