Nature-based solutions (NbS) provide an enormous opportunity to #BuildBackBetter.
Translating NbS into targeted actions can:
🌍 Enhance adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change
🦋 Preserve and restore nature
👩🌾 Protect people and create livelihoods
Learn more. 👉 www.undrr.org/words-action-nature-based-solutions-disaster-risk-reduction
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🌿🔍 Explore the new IPBES Learning Tool on #InvasiveAlienSpecies!
Packed with interactive graphics, animations and real-world case studies, this tool is designed to deepen your understanding and equip you to tackle one of the biggest threats to biodiversity.
Start learning today and help spread the word!
📚 Access the tool: www.ipbes.net/ias/learning
📽️ Watch the short video preview: youtu.be/DZQXaTDZLqw
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The role of Indigenous women is critical to preserve and manage natural resources in their communities. 🌏
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) examines the key roles #IndigenousWomen play in preserving livelihoods, languages, culture, cosmogony and territory, as well as the unique challenges and opportunities they face as changemakers. 👩🧕👳♀️
Learn more ➡️ www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb0719en
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📢 Stay updated with BES-Net's latest news blast!
👏 Join us in welcoming Kazakhstan to IPBES
🔍 Discover essential biodiversity initiatives
📊 Learn from our partners’ impactful projects
🌱 Find out how you can contribute to global biodiversity through upcoming events and career opportunities.
🌐 Read all about it: www.besnet.world/newsletter-3/
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Is investing with nature in mind the new trend? 🌿🌍
A recent study shows a shift in the stock market following the Kunming Declaration. Companies with lesser biodiversity footprints began to see higher returns, suggesting that investors might be starting to price in biodiversity risks.
This marks a potential turning point in how financial markets value our natural world. But could this lead to more sustainable business practices?
Check out the study to learn more. 👇 www.besnet.world/library/do-investors-care-about-biodiversity/
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📢 Exciting news from Ethiopia! 🇪🇹
The country just concluded an insightful two-day workshop in Bishoftu, with 40 experts deliberating on the nation's biodiversity and ecosystem strategies. 🌱📚
Highlights included impactful talks by Dr. Melese Maryo and Dr. Feleke Woldeyes on policy integration and operationalization. A big step forward for biodiversity conservation in Ethiopia! 👏🎉
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🇩🇴 In the Dominican Republic, the Zorzal Reserve is protecting the threatened Bicknell's thrush while fostering sustainable cacao farming.
This model not only safeguards biodiversity but also supports the local economy. ✅
Learn how agriculture and conservation can go hand in hand! 🌎💚
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The sweet rewards of protecting a threatened songbird
www.thegef.org
This delicate speckled songbird with its big black eyes is not only beloved in the mountains of North America’s east coast where it summers, it was the inspiration behind Reserva Privada Zorzal: the...
🚨 IPBES is hosting an upcoming webinar on #InvasiveAlienSpecies and their impact on Indigenous Peoples and local communities!
✅ Learn some key messages from the Invasive Species Assessment
✅ Reflect on community experiences and governance strategies that help combat invasions
✅ Hear directly from the authors and community leaders about managing invasive alien species
Register today! unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kw5U-rXHTRKjCCs4Cq5xzw
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