EnviroIndex

Environmental, nature and conservation issues.
Data | Stats | Indicators | Rankings | Maps | Charts
By @AgroDer | @AgroDer_Intl

[Cynthia P. Pliego @Cyn_Pliego]

En equipo por una #agricultura sostenible! El estreno latinoamericano de la #pelicula Common Ground de @rocofilms - 18 de enero, Culiacán 🍿

Info: https://t.co/DPVP1TzxBG

Gracias al Comité Organizador y a los patrocinadores x su apoyo para hacerlo una realidad!
@commongrounddoc

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Global glacial melt 🗻 per region
#Ice loss (Gigatons/year) 🧊

674 Global total
Top 5:
200 Greenland
156 Arctic Canada & Alaska
118 Antarctic
34 Southern Andes
25 Russian Arctic & North Asia

#ClimateCrisis #SDG13
(@insideclimate)

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#carbonneutral goals

137 countries committed
✅Bhutan & Suriname already carbon negative
2030-2045: Uruguay, Finland, Austria, Iceland, Germany, Sweden
2050: 124 countries
2060: China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
2050-2100: Australia & Singapore

(@VisualCap)

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Drylands 🏜️

3.8 billion people live in climate-vulnerable drylands
25% of the global population
50% of the world’s livestock
27%of the world’s forests (2019)
store 30%of the world’s soil organic carbon
supply ~60% of the world’s food production (2018)

@FAO | @IUCN

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#ClimateChange & Displaced people

33.4 million newly displaced (2019)
▪️ 70% due to climate-related disasters 🌀🔆🌪️🌧️

(2008–2018) 23M people/year
▪️ 90% of which have had weather-related triggers 🌊🌬️🔥

#ClimateCrisis

@CGIAR | @CGIARclimate | @FAOclimate | @CARE

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Top 10 Universities, #Environmental Science
🏫World Rankings, 2021.

1 🇺🇸 @HUCEnvironment
2 🇺🇸 @StanfordEarth
3 🇺🇸 @eapsMIT
4 🇬🇧 @ecioxford
5= 🇬🇧 @EarthSciCam
5= 🇳🇱 @WUR
7 🇨🇭 @ETH_ERDW
8 🇨🇳 @Tsinghua_Uni
9 🇺🇸 @NatureAtCal
10 🇬🇧 @imperialcollege

(2021 Rank | @TopUnis)

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🌋 Devastating eruptions
VEI*, #Volcano, Country, Yr

7 Mt Tambora 🇮🇩 1815
6+ Ilopango 🇸🇻 450
6 Krakatoa 🇮🇩 1883
6 Laki 🇮🇸 1783
6 Pinatubo 🇵🇭 1991
6 Sta Maria 🇬🇹 1902
5 Vesuvius 🇮🇹 79
4 Mt Pelee 🇲🇶 1902
3 Nevado del Ruiz 🇨🇴 1985
2 Mt Unzen 🇯🇵 1792

*🌋Explosivity Index
(@ausgeo)

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#eWaste Generated Per Capita
(kg/capita, 2019)

21 North America🌎
16 Europe 🌍
16 Oceania🌏
9 Latin America & Caribbean 🌎
6 Asia🌏
3 Africa 🌍

#CircularEconomy

(@ChathamHouse)

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Past Earth #Overshoot Dates

1970: December 29
1980: November 4
1990: October 11
2000: September 23
2010: August 7
2019: July 26
2020: August 22
2021: July 21

(@EndOvershoot)

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Global Forest Loss, 2000-2020 🌲🌳

~100 million hectares.

@FAO

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Mountains & Water

#African #rivers, basins and #topography.
Longest river: Nile
Highest mountain: Mt. Kilimanjaro

(via @Antropocenista & @TopographicMaps)

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Flowing and enduring #nature...

Free Flowing #Rivers
Intact #Forest Landscapes
#Mangroves

#WorldWaterDay (March 22)
#WorldForestDay (March 21)

(@AgroDer | @AgroDer_Intl)

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#InternationalWomensDay
Almost 1/3 women’s employment globally is in agriculture, forestry and fishing (may exclude self-employed & unpaid family workers).

Share in countries
9.5% upper-middle-income
2.6% high-income
over 60% most low-income and lower-middle-income

@UN

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Average #foodwaste
(kg/capita/yr) by region

110 West Asia
108 Sub-Saharan Africa
90 South Europe
82 SE Asia
81 Australia & NZ
74 North Europe
69 Latin America
69 North America
66 South Asia
65 West Europe
64 East Asia
61 East Europe

@UNEP | via @theagroindex

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#WorldEnergyEfficiencyDay

#SDG7 Goal: Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030.

Current annual rate: 1.2% per year

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>40% of the #emissions cuts needed to reach global #ClimateGoals can be achieved through #EnergyEfficiency.

@COP26 | @studentenergy

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#FoodLoss & #FoodWaste ActionWeek

Food loss & waste alone could take the 3rd place 🥉in the country CO₂E emissions chart, with 4.4 GT

➡️1.6 billion tons of #foodwaste produced each year

🥇🇨🇳CHN 10.7 GT
🥈🇺🇸 USA 5.8 GT

(Estimates, 2011/12)

(@WorldResources | @entoprotech)

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Freshwater #ForgottenFishes

🐟migratory populations have plummeted by 76% since 1970
🦈megafish global population, down by 94%
🎣16 species declared extinct in 2020

@WWFLeadWater @Nature_Org @ConservationOrg @IUCN_Water @InlandFisheries @globalwild_cc @bluemayfly @OfficialZSL

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#InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻‍❄️
10 facts:
1. Marine mammals
2. Black skin!
3. Speed: 40kmph land-10kmph water
4. Largest land carnivore
5. Smell from 1km & 1m of snow
6. Take snow baths
7. 2% hunt success
8. ~26,000 in the wild
9. live ~30 yr

@ArticKingdom | @PolarBears | @wwf_uk

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Monarch Butterfly Decline
Wintering Monarch butterflies decline 26% in 2020 comparison with 2019...
The cause: 🔥climate change or 🌲deforestation?

@AP

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7 agricultural commodities — cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and plantation wood fiber — accounted for 26% of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015.

(@TraseEarth | @globalforests)