Indigenous Peoples’ overall health, well-being and cultural continuity are directly related to their ability to consume their traditional foods and continue their traditional food practices.

#WeAreIndigenous

#DYK that around one third of the food produced globally is either lost or wasted? 🧐 🍅🍏🌽

Understanding the major sources of food waste is the first step towards reducing it. We all have a role to play in reducing food waste. 👇

Via EU EnvironmentAgency

🌺Want to discover the lexicon of nature? Join us & dive into the language of #biodiversity !🔎

Pollution is 1 of the 5 direct drivers of
#BiodiversityLoss , with land- and sea-use change, #ClimateChange , resource exploitation & invasive alien species.🌿

According to ipbes⬇️

#ClimateChange is shifting biodiversity distribution quickly. How can we measure it?

eDNA offers a swift solution, expediting the acquisition of crucial oceanic data.

Learn from UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 expert Fanny Douvere how this technology advances the #OceanDecade .👇

🌱 #SBI4 has entered its final stretch, with the last day being tomorrow.

📄 Stay up to date with what happened this Tuesday during the #NairobiMeetings with Earth Negotiations Bulletin: enb.iisd.org/cbd-subsidiary…

📸: Mike Muzurakis/Earth Negotiations Bulletin

Want to dig deeper into Tuesday's UN Biodiversity talks at #SBI4 in Nairobi?

Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report

enb.iisd.org/cbd-subsidiary…

#biodiversity #biodiversity plan #GBF

Delegates at #SBI4 approved conference room papers on the financial mechanism, the capacity-building action plan for the Nagoya Protocol, and the Clearing-house mechanism and knowledge management... with multiple brackets for COP 16 Colombia to resolve

➡️ enb.iisd.org/cbd-subsidiary…

How does pollution impact key soil functions?❓⚠️ #SoilHealth
Learn about the processes that are most affected by #SoilPollution 👇
📚 Read in the 'Global Assessment of Soil Pollution report':
Main report: openknowledge.fao.org/items/3cba5eed…
Summary: openknowledge.fao.org/items/9f84ec0f…
FAO Land, Soil and Water

From pollinating our crops to producing sweet honey, bees give us many of the foods we love 🐝🍎

But did you know they're also vital for biodiversity?

Via International Fund for Agricultural Development

Ecosystems such as forests, peatlands, & coastal wetlands all play a role in naturally storing high levels of carbon. Protecting these ecosystems is necessary in order to ensure the well-being of future generations.

Learn more about biological carbon sequestration 👇

Via USGS

News: to close the financing gap to meet the #BiodiversityPlan targets and boost efforts to reverse loss, China and UNEP launched and signed agreement to co-chair new Kunming Biodiversity Fund.

Inger Andersen statement: bit.ly/4aITqFs

Identify and address capacity development needs in an information system for #biodiversity -related topics with this new Biodiversity Information System Framework tool!

The new interactive tool can be found here: eu1.hubs.ly/H08xXQW0

Via UNEP-WCMC

Tackling #InvasiveSpecies calls for strategic approaches:
🔍 Swift identification & action
🌲 Reviving native habitats
📢 Community awareness
📃 Enforcing robust policies
🤝 United multisectoral effort
These open the door to protecting our ecosystems! Learn more from ipbes

Making #NotWasting a way of life is about much more than preventing perfectly good food from ending up in the bin.

Reducing your #foodwaste has many more benefits 👇
#FoodWaste

Via Food and Agriculture Organization

📣 Finance for Biodiversity Foundation Urges Governments to Align Financial Flows and Mandate Sectoral Pathways at #SBI -4 Meeting 📣

Emine Isciel will represent Finance for Biodiversity Foundation at this meeting, serving as co-chair of the Public Policy Advocacy working group

UN Biodiversity's Acting Executive Secretary, David Cooper, recently did an interview with CGTN America, where he discussed:

✅The #BiodiversityPlan ;
✅Progress since its adoption;
✅Mobilization of financial resources;
✅& more!

Full interview ⬇️
youtube.com/watch?v=AzrAnz…

#SBI4 continues its work, addressing a conference room paper on the clearing-house mechanism and knowledge management. #biodiversity

The ocean produces at least 50% of the 🌎's oxygen. It's home to most of Earth’s biodiversity, & is the main source of protein & nutrition for more than 3 billion people.

Despite all this, the ocean is at risk.

Here are 10 things you can do to #SaveOurOcean .
UNDP Arab States

At the Nairobi Meetings, UN Biodiversity's David Ainsworth spoke to Amelia Arreguin of CBD Women Caucus CBD Women's Caucus.

Watch the full #BiodiversityBeat interview: youtube.com/watch?v=ly7Umi…

Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'Science-policy platform' 🌍

Join the conversation as the Nairobi UN Biodiversity Meetings continue, and delegates work to implement the #BiodiversityPlan : cbd.int/conferences/na…