Today is the 1st time #WorldWetlandsDay will be observed as @UN international day ๐ฟ๐ฆ I am celebrating these dynamic and valuable ecosystems and the wildlife they support on Gunditjmara Country, these #wetlands have sustained life for thousands of generations! @DELWP_Vic
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Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, #Australia ๐ฆ๐บ, has just been inscribed on @UNESCO#WorldHeritage List. Congratulations! ๐
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Join us to honor the world's leading indigenous and local environmental champions at the 2020 digital #EquatorPrize Ceremony this Tuesday, 29 September at 9AM ET.
Save the ๐ & follow @undplive for #NatureForLife updates: https://t.co/y9hkWuG8NX
#Biodiversity2020
Not only is protecting nature vital to the health of the planet, it could be crucial to preventing future pandemics. Investment in preventing the destruction of nature is also an investment in keeping us healthy. #ClimateWeekNYC#NatureForLife https://t.co/U5Ar21x2Hu
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Through a pandemic and wildfires, climate change & the #BiodiversityCrisis has shown us what is to come if humanity does not change its course. Data-driven policy can help us #RecoverBetter
#DYK ๐ง emissions can be reduced as a co-benefit of improving resource use efficiency and productivity?
We are proud to support @IraqiGovt and @noradno through a seminar today to investigate national plans and climate policies that support commitments of the #ParisAgreement
โ7 years, 101 days, 17 hours until Earthโs carbon budget is depleted, based on current emission ratesโ. Vote for politicians that treat the climate crisis as a crisis @NZGreens ๐
Travelled (virtually) to Iraq with #UNEP to launch the process to develop a #NationalAdaptationPlan that uses strategic planning based on future climate projections to build resilience and reduce vulnerability ๐ฎ๐ถโ
#New Zealand makes #climate reporting compulsory New Zealand has become the first country in the world to make climate risk reporting mandatory for banks, asset managers and insurers. @riadmeddeb@salhaj@HelenClarkNZ ๐ฅณ๐ฅฐ
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๐ฃ๏ธYour voice matters,
๐งYour ideas matter.
What should the #UnitedNations have on its list of priorities for the 2020-2030 decade? Complete a 1min survey to shape the sustainable future you want: https://t.co/8vc07Dk5QP.
#UN75 ๐๐๐
From today onward we are living beyond the earth's natural limits - our response to #COVID19 shows how quickly we can create positive change. We need to keep the momentum to build a world that relies less on #fossilfuels ๐๐๐ง#MoveTheDate
22 August is #EarthOvershootDay. On this day, we will have used more resources than the Earth can generate in a year.
The #COVID19 shutdown has pushed the date 3 weeks later this year. But there are more sustainable, less painful ways to #MoveTheDate.
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"Never let a good crisis go to waste.โ In some Pacific countries, where there is no actual public health emergency, governments are using the threat of the virus as cover for overriding or diluting basic democratic principles"
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No better time than now to read @NaomiAKlein#ShockDoctrine "In moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration showed, a terrorist attack"
Mangrove ecosystems provide benefits that are essential for life on Earth:
๐ฑ rich biodiversity
๐ก๏ธ climate mitigation
๐ coastal defense against storms, tsunamis and sea-level rise
Find out more on Sunday's #MangroveDay: https://t.co/u8d81li13t
Tonight we ran out of seats in the office. I video called in - from Parliament - to a mind-blowing number of volunteers who had turned up to write lovely postcards to apartment dwellers across our city. This is what making history looks like. โ โ @NZGreens
Ecosystems are collapsing and species are becoming extinct but there is still time to act! "Nature provides about $125tn in assets to humanity, the cost of protecting 30% of the planet is cheap by comparison" #30x30
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Just .16% of global GDP - about 1/5 of what we spend on softdrinks, or <3% of what we spend on fossil fuel subsidies, would safeguard life on ๐, while providing incalculable #SDG benefits for . RT if you agree, we need to rethink our $ priorities! #30x30 https://t.co/iAtils1qaf