The ESRAG Plastic Solutions is using the power of Rotary to develop a global network to rethink and influence how we create, use, and dispose of plastics
And you, are you foregoing fireworks this year? 🎉🦇🦅
"#Fireworks and other pyrotechnics are acknowledged as sources of disturbance to #wildlife, with evidence that many species react adversely to their sight and sound at discharge."
https://t.co/BL1hWh0BCK
GlobalWarming
Our planet absorbs too much energy!
Anthropogenic effect on the earth's radiation balance can be measured from space.
Earth's Energy Balance shows a surplus in energy absorption for the Earth.
NASA/GSFC, Scientific Visualization Studio
When pollinators feed themselves, they feed the world.
These hard workers need plants to pollinate and a safe home.
Learn how you can give pollinators what they need to do their job https://t.co/YXx06NpbNq
#PeopleForPollinators
Via @UNEP_NAmerica
Thirty-five years of efforts like that of Ahmad during a polio campaign in Afghanistan, have brought us to our best chance yet to #EndPolio forever. We must seize this moment and #MakePolioHistory.
🎥: @WHOEMRO
With Reef Futures marine research project concluding, here are the main findings from their areas of work:
🐟Biomass production
🐋Nutrient cycling
🪸Carbon cycling
🐠Cultural value
🎣Nutrition value
Learn more about the project ➡️https://t.co/oxTijYY1z6
Via @unepwcmc
Up to 30% of the planet's crop and livestock areas will become unsuitable for food production by the end of the century if global emissions aren't reduced.
We can reverse the damage done to our planet, but it's going to take all of us. 💪🌱🌎
Via @WFP
Our Members #RotarySouth wish our friends & supporters a very Happy New Year. Thank you for your support again this year without your help, we would be unable to assist our community.
Join us! All Welcome ! #RotarySouth https://t.co/l8kSNSYDfy RT pls #PeopleOfAction
As the end of 2023 draws near ⏳, it's time for one last look back at the GPEI's work over the last year before giving full focus to 2024: https://t.co/pwPsEaYgQF #EndPolio
#Texas - We’re Number One in #RenewableEnergy and Nonrenewable Energy
Go get smart on wind!
So began the state’s unlikely emergence as a renewables superpower.
https://t.co/KmyPpkM23B
This season, give the gift of #Rotary to communities worldwide. A small gift to The Rotary Foundation goes a long way in providing polio vaccines and clean water.
Make a contribution today: https://t.co/TgZPSpvrzr
Nearly $7 trillion USD is invested annually in activities harming nature, while investments in Nature-based Solutions total only around $200 billion.
It’s time to flip these numbers.
Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more findings: https://t.co/RkqKoJN6iC
Via @UNEP
Nature is humanity’s greatest ally in tackling the climate crisis and critical to limiting global temperature rise.
Join #GenerationRestoration and take #ClimateAction: https://t.co/gkosxoOJ3n
Via @UNEP
Did you know that the waste generated at Christmas goes up by 30% compared to the waste created during the rest of the year? 🎄🌍
There are lots of small changes you can make to keep your celebrations more sustainable. 👇
Via @WWFScotland
"It is beyond time to rethink our relationship with nature. Or we will always be trapped in a race against time treating only symptoms of a dysfunctional relationship with our natural world rather than the cause"
@UNDP's Nature Hub Director,@MidoriPaxton: https://t.co/ciCbPFv1Kz
Amazon deforestation implications in local/regional climate change | PNAS
Amazonia and global climate change: a two-way process, where emissions from deforestation impact greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
https://t.co/YbFCDt9E70
Manmade #GlobalWarming
The top few meters of the ocean store as much heat as Earth’s entire atmosphere.
The total amount of heat energy stored by the oceans is called Ocean Heat Content.
The energy imbalance of recent years has been staggering.
#ClimateAction is urgently needed
GlobalWarming & energy
The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets-and thinks you should, too
It uncovered systemic problems with offset markets and recommended that the focus on cutting its direct emissions instead.
https://t.co/MjpAyN5Urw
Let's cherish this natural treasures—#mountains!
They're home to 1.1 billion people, half of the world's biodiversity hotspots, origin of many staple food crops, cover 40% of global mountain areas with forests, and provide most of our freshwater.
Via @FAO
‘Though the CEC is a new CCAC member, 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸 are 3 of the 6 founding members.
We encourage partners to leverage climate pollutant work to engage w/ Indigenous Peoples & advance equitable, biodiversity-positive climate solutions.’
—@JDTaillant at @CCACoalition#COP28 Ministerial
🌍 #InvasiveAlienSpecies have negative impacts on nature 🌱, nature's contributions to people & good quality of life including documented negative cross-cutting impacts. 🫂❌
🚨Learn more in the new @IPBES#InvasiveAlienSpecies Report:
➡️ https://t.co/uKd85yy37F
Via @IPBES