Inger Andersen
@andersen_inger
Executive Director @UNEP @UN Under-Secretary-General
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http://www.unep.org 24-03-2014 20:04:50
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'We are using the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to maintain our lifestyles.'
In India this week, António Guterres underlined the urgency to transform economic systems by living sustainably and reducing environmental footprints #ForPeopleForPlanet .
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Elusive snow leopards, called “ghost of the mountains,” play a key role in regulating prey populations and, in doing so, maintaining healthy mountain ecosystems.
More about this species on #InternationalSnowLeopardDay : bit.ly/3COTuV7
As Mia Amor Mottley has so eloquently said 'We don't want only to pay the undertaker, we want to save lives.' Every dollar spent before saves US$ 7 in avoided expenditure, not to mention lives.
#ClimateActionNow #ForPeopleForPlanet
🔥 #COP27 is fast approaching. But behind the promises, what is really being achieved – and what is not?
Join #TC2022 to hear UN Environment Programme's Inger Andersen and Context News Climate Editor Laurie Goering discuss where the world stands on climate change. ➡️ bit.ly/3yepOQn
Half of the emissions produced by humans are absorbed by the land and ocean. These ecosystems – and the biodiversity they contain – are natural carbon sinks, providing #NatureBasedSolutions to #ClimateChange .
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Society is faced with complex health challenges at the human, animal, plant & environmental interface.
A #OneHealth joint plan by @unep @who @woah_global and @fao aims to leverage resources needed to address critical health threats #ForPeopleForPlanet ⤵️
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'We need an increase of at least 590% in annual climate finance to get on track for the goals of the Paris Agreement.'
Inger Andersen on investment and trade to meet the Paris climate goals:
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#ClimateAction
Climate change is here, now and getting worse faster. Here are 5 ways countries can adapt to the #ClimateEmergency .
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We are a species in peril, living on a planet in peril. If
governments make the political choice to follow a #onehealth approach we can heal the planet & ourselves. #WHS2022 . My thoughts to The Global Governance Project 🔽
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به شدت نگران سلامت نیلوفر بیانی، همکار سابقمان در UN Environment Programme و سایر زندانیان محیط زیستی در زندان اوین هستم. از نهادهای مرتبط میخواهم که همه فعالان محیط زیستی زندانی را آزاد کنند.
#Foodsystems account for:
❌ 1/3rd GHG emissions
❌ 2/3rds of biodiversity loss
Even as we face unprecedented #GlobalFoodCrisis .
Something must change so that food systems contribute to the global goals – from slowing #ClimateCrisis to ending #poverty . #WorldFoodDay2022
Women are the farmers for the world. But they have few rights. Land tenure & credit access are critical for rural women to adapt to #climate & withstand shocks. There is no solution to #climate crisis without rural women. So, #InvestInRuralWomen .
#RuralWomensDay
Our way of living is making the planet – and us – sick, but by taking a One Health approach to systemic transformations, we have a chance to heal and thrive globalgovernanceproject.org/one-health-for… Inger Andersen World Health Summit #WHS2022