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Dec 19, 2022

🚨#BreakingNews: Nations Adopt 4 Goals, 23 Targets for 2030 In Landmark UN Biodiversity Agreement By 2030: Protect 30% of 🌏's lands, 🌊, coastal areas, inland waters; Cut food waste in half’; More 📄➡️cbd.int/conferences/20 #COP15 #COP15Announcement #GBFAdoption #post2020🌱

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At of #COP15 in Montreal 🇨🇦 & every day, we should promote the sustainable use of nature. All across the globe, every positive action, big or small counts #ForNature & #ForOurPlanet 📢🌎 📷

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Take a minute to think about our oceans... 🌊Oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the 🌍 🌊Oceans host 80% of life on the 🌍 🌊Oceans provide half of the 🌍’s oxygen The health of our oceans affects us all. #BlueTransformation #COP15 Via

#InvasiveAlienSpecies cause substantial environmental and economic damages, increasing global homogenization of #biodiversity. Their negative effects are exacerbated by: 🌡#ClimateChange 🏭Pollution 🌳Habitat loss 🏗Human-induced disturbance ➡️ cbd.int/invasive/Whata

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A large portion of the total plant species worldwide relies on pollinators to reproduce. While bees aren’t the only pollinators around, they are the most efficient out of the lot, making them much more critical to the process.

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Marco Lambertini

@WWF_SpecEnvoy

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We are all still celebrating the historic

#COP15 agreement Now we must focus on implementing its #naturepositive mission “Halt & Reverse Nature Loss by 2030” Protect 30% Restore 30% Redirect 1/2t harmful subsidies Raise 200b pa Address footprint of economy

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Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

Dec 23, 2022

"We must now see the immediate implementation of this agreement. No excuses, no delays – nature loss is rapidly becoming a fundamental threat to our prosperity, equality, social cohesion, health and wellbeing." — #AJOpinion by @WWF_DG

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Business for Nature

@BfNCoalition

22h

🌿 "Undeniably, the world's GDP is dependent on #Nature. Nature is, well and truly, everyone's business." 📺 Watch our #COP15 debrief with

@Camilla_Drejer

@AccentureUK

: ow.ly/CRNU50MSZoH #ForNature #NatureIsEveryonesBusiness

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Zero Hour

@cebill_now

21h

“Countries should be working on national targets and a government-wide plan. The key thing is to ask what the #COP15 agreement means for agriculture, infrastructure, health, urban development and economic development.” 👇

Overconsumption by the rich must be tackled, says acting UN biodiversity chief

#UnitedForNature

theguardian.com

Wealthy countries and businesses should act now to ensure success of historic nature agreement signed at Cop15 in Montreal

IISD Resilience

@IISD_Resilience

20h

Learn how to use synergies between

@UNFCCC

agendas and avoid trade-offs in #ClimateChange & #biodiversity policy design and implementation. 📖 Key resources: bit.ly/3xbBUJt

@Adapt_Community

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Our guest authors,

's Tiina Vähänen &

call for enhanced partnerships & collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities and businesses to achieve targets of the Global #Biodiversity Framework

Guest Article: Partnerships Key to Meeting Wildlife Conservation Targets | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

#worldwildlifeday

sdg.iisd.org

China Dialogue

@chinadialogue

🐊 Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! 💚 This day aims to celebrate the world's wild animals & plants & the contribution that they make to our lives & the planet. Check out this thread for some of our top wildlife stories 👇 🧵1/12

TimesTravel

@TOItravel

World Wildlife Day 2023 #WorldWildlifeDay2023 #conservation #nature

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UN World Wildlife Day 2023 - Virtual event

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: World Wildlife Day is this Friday, and here’s the program for our event. Celebrate with us by joining the livestream on our YouTube Channel: ow.ly/l60M50N4Wxi #PartnershipsforConservation ow.ly/Je2U50N4Wxn

Event organised by the CITES Secretariat and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to celebrate World Wildlife Day 2023 and CITES' 50th.

Kenya Forest Service

@KeForestService

World Wildlife Day 2023 acknowledges the significant contribution CITES has made to sustainability, wildlife and biodiversity conservation and how this contribution has been enhanced by the bridge-building and partnership work done within the CITES framework. #WorldWildlifeDay

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UN World Wildlife Day 2023 - Virtual event

Africa Renewal, UN

@africarenewal

20h

March 3 is ##WorldWildlifeDay - a UN International day to celebrate all the world's wild animals and plants and the contribution that they make to our lives and the health of the planet. Celebrate this Friday by joining the livestream event eventbrite.ch/e/un-world-wil #WWD2023

eventbrite.ch

Event organised by the CITES Secretariat and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to celebrate World Wildlife Day 2023 and CITES' 50th.

Zimbabwe Youth Biodiversity Network

@zybn_cbd

Mar 1

🐾🌍 Join us for our World Wildlife Day lead-up event on March 2, 2023, and learn about partnerships for wildlife conservation! 🦏🐘🦁 Organized with

@AyiccZim

and

@action4wildlife

🤝 Don't miss out! Register now at the link below: 👇 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist #WWD2023 #IamZYBN

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Red List of Ecosystems

@redlisteco

22h

World Wildlife Day 2023 will be held under the theme “Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation” to celebrate all conservation efforts, from intergovernmental to local scale. In person event tomorrow to celebrate #WWD2023 Register here: ow.ly/b57G50N37pr

@GENetwork

RSPB Scotland

@RSPBScotland

Today is World Wildlife Day 2023! We want to hear about the innovative projects or initiatives that you've been working on which aid nature conservation. Enter your project for the #NatureOfScotland Awards here: rspb.org.uk/natureofscotla #WWD2023

@NatureofScot

@nature_scot

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Kenya Forest Service

@KeForestService

Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day! This World Wildlife Day 2023 falls on the 50th Anniversary of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) coming into being.

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WCS Interim President and CEO Robb Menzi's message for World Wildlife...

WCS EU

@WCSBrussels

Today, we celebrate 50 years of

@CITES

👏 👉 Message from

@TheWCS

Interim President and CEO Robb Menzi for World Wildlife Day 2023 🐘🐯🌳🌍

@WildlifeDay

#WWD2023 #WorldWildlifeDay youtu.be/7QYjqzH-eO0 via

@YouTube

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Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)

@BonnConvention

Governments, scientists, conservation groups, indigenous peoples & local communities, the private sector must work together to move the relationship of people and nature onto the right path. - Amy Fraenkel, CMS Executive Secretary on #WorldWildlifeDay & CITES 50th Anniversary

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Amy Fraenkel CMS and 4 others

Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework . EU Support

@4Post2020BD

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! 🌎💚 It is the opportunity to look back to the historic event we lived together for the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal #GBF at #Cop15 🚨Addressing GBF Target 4 is urgently needed to protect & conserve wildlife #ForNature & people🐆

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UN University - EHS

@UNUEHS

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! #DYK #DisasterRisk is related to #wildlife preservation? 🤔💭💚🐘🐬 Find out how #InterconnectedRisks solutions can help save #biodiversity in this video 📽️. Find out more: ehs.unu.edu/news/news/5-fa

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Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

@WCS_Canada

17h

Ask the average person about threatened places and they think of the Amazon or the Great Barrier Reef — and that’s great, but it’s important for people to realize we have globally threatened ecosystems here in Canada too, says

@WCS_Canada

@NatureDanimal

vancouversun.com

B.C. has second highest number of threatened ecosystems in Canada, as 41 per cent face collapse in...

ipbes

@IPBES

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1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction Unsustainable, illegal & unregulated use of species is a large part of the problem. —

@andersen_inger

On #WorldWildlifeDay, learn how to sustainably benefit from wild species w/

@ipbes

#SustainableUse Assessment #WWD2023

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World Wildlife Day 2023 Statement by David Cooper

David Cooper

@hdavidcooper

On #WorldWildlifeDay, we recognize the importance of the world’s wild plants and animals’ contribution to biodiversity and our lives. The #GBF calls for urgent actions to halt human-induced extinctions of known threatened species by 2030. Learn more:

youtube.com

World Wildlife Day 2023 Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. On World Wildlife Day (3 March 2023...

The global ocean, which covers 70% of the planet… 👫Provides income for billions of people 💨Produces the air we breathe 🌊Absorbs > 50% of carbon emissions Read this

@theGEF

story to learn more about the importance of protecting the ocean: wrld.bg/g1FH50M3ky1

@UNDPClimate

Mitigation response was a core pillar at #COP27. Reducing the emission of greenhouse gases in the short run will result in important improvements in addressing the climate crisis by safeguarding the Paris Temperature Goal and keeping the 1.5 °C target within reach. Via

A sustainable circular bioeconomy has major untapped potential to help combat the #ClimateCrisis & transform our agrifood systems. But what is #bioeconomy exactly? Learn more about

@FAO

's work on #bioeconomy 👉 bit.ly/3tzpZTj #COP15 Via

@FAO

Human rights belong to all people. Preserving them is a shared responsibility. Nowhere is this collective interest more urgent than in conserving our planet. More on the right to a clean, healthy& sustainable environment from

@asakookai

: ow.ly/viw950M12Ko Via

@UNDPClimate

Biodiversity isn't just an environmental issue. It also underpins our societies and economies. At #COP15, governments need to demonstrate their commitment to finance nature for the benefit of all. ➡️ cbd.int/cop15 Via

@UNDP

Uruguay issues the first bond aligned to climate change indicators for 1.5 billion dollars | United...

Uruguay has issued the first bond aligned to climate change indicators for $1.5 billion. With this innovative tool, the country is aligning its financing strategy with environment and climate change targets: Via

@UNDPClimate

undp.org

Research shows how new global targets to protect and restore nature can help tackle climate change...

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This flooded forest acts as the central lifeline for more than 2 million Cambodians living along its banks. Our new story is a 5-part multimedia series featuring this unique ecosystem, its residents &conservation efforts in the flooded forest: bit.ly/3hsigns Via

A 🆕 report reveals that carefully targeted efforts to conserve the earth's ecosystems on land and converted landscapes with coordinated action could help tackle #climatechange and #natureloss. Find the report here 👇 Via

@unepwcmc

unep-wcmc.org

A new study has strengthened calls for coordinated action on climate change and nature loss, by calculating the CO2 emissions countries could save if they conserve and restore ecosystems on land, in...

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Sow Black Bear and cub foraging for crabs at low tide | Tofino, BC #Wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #NaturePhotography #NatureBeauty Via

The ENCORE #biodiversity module helps financial institutions assess their risks in the agriculture and mining sectors. Created with

@UNEP_FI

@unepwcmc

with support from

@foenCH

. #COP15 #financeday Explore the module: encore.naturalcapital.finance/en Via

Investing in school feeding is investing in: 📗 Education 🍏 Nutrition and health 💚 Social protection 💸 Local economies ✅ Human capital

@WFP

School meals programmes help girls stay in school, paving the way to gender equality and a brighter future.

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Yesterday was African Day of School Feeding! 🎉🌍🏫👧🏾🍛📖 Improving children’s nutrition, health and guaranteeing their access to education are the starting points to accelerate the human capital, social and economic development of the continent.

GIF

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The final text of the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, agreed at the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is now available in all United Nations languages! #COP15 #POST2020 #GBF cbd.int/article/cop15-