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After #Argentina established a green corridor, its jaguar population doubled from 50 to 100 within 12 years! See how @PNUDArgentina & @unredd's forest conservation sparked a win for #wildlife conservation: expi.co/01nSJW #Biodiversity2020 #LifeOnEarth
The time has come for less talk & more action on #WomensRights worldwide. Meet the changemakers leading #GenerationEquality:
changemakers.undp.org
#IWD2020 #CSW64 #InternationalWomensDay
Everywhere, women are worse off than men, simply because they are women.
This gender power gap is a form of discrimination that harms us all.
On Thursday at @TheNewSchool I will outline 5 areas in which achieving gender equality will transform our world.
bit.ly/2I04pQ4
Retweeted by UN Development By switching to #solarpowered #electricbuses, Mauritius could cut 36.5 tons of CO2 emissions each year. See how @UNDPAfrica is helping 🇲🇺to meet it#ClimatePromiseseafrica.undp.org/content/rba/en…aF
In #Libya, �#solarpowerr illuminates hope for a brighter future.@gnoto622 explains how@UNDPLibyaa works w@UNSMILibyaa to#BuildPeacee thru#LibyaStabilizationn.#FragilityForum200undp.org/content/undp/e…6
Global textile production emits 1.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases annually according to @Fash_Rev's 2019 #FashionTransparencyIndex. Our Goodwill Ambassador #MichelleYeoh shares her tips for sustainable fashion through consumer 💰choices:bit.ly/383xyEis#FashionWeekkZ
Women & girls usually make up half of any refugee, IDP or stateless population. What policies are most effective for strengthen their #HumanRights & protection during crisis?
See our new Toolkit for guiding principles: bit.ly/2Pt76xs
#FragilityForum20 #CSW64
We need to disrupt traditional approaches to development & adapt our thinking to the world's rapidly changing landscape. Here is how we are working w countries on #SDGintegration to reach their #dev. ambitions #ForPeopleForPlanet. @UNDP_SDGs sdgintegration.undp.org
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On average, women are paid 16-22% less than men globally.
More facts ahead of @antonioguterres' speech on "Women and Power", this Thursday at @TheNewSchool: bit.ly/32o36no
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Radwan is 1 of 1300 person who we engaged in emergency employment to provide them w/ a source of income while helping rebuild their community
@UNDP #Syria is rehabilitating the largest & 1 of the few remaining functioning hospitals in #Daraa thanks to funds from @JPEmbassy_Syria
Retweeted by UN Development Ocean acidity is bleaching #coralreefs & acidification continues to rise as CO2 emission levels 🔺.@UNDPSriLankaa brings this inspiring effort to save the largest#coralreeff & the largest protected marine area in Sri Lanka:expi.co/01nPrmA #Biodiversity20200#LifeOnEarthhR
The ocean provides 80% of Tunisia's economy + 90% of its tourism. But #climatechange is devouring its coastlines. @UNDPinTUNISIA is working w/ the local govt to protect disappearing coasts + fish: ow.ly/vqG930irDiO #Biodiversity2020
When was the last time you saw stars without 💡 pollution? At Three Canyons in Peru, you can see the night sky as Mother Nature intended. See how@theGEFF &@PNUDperuu are helping communities to protect it through#ecotourismm:expi.co/01nW9I7#Biodiversity20200w
Over the past 50 yrs, the Hadzabe of #Tanzania had lost +90% of ancestral land. After they won a historic #landrights ruling, these #EquatorPrize winners turned to carbon offsetting to finance reforestation 🌳🌳 fo#LifeOnEarththbit.ly/2QJaLbYX#Biodiversity20202m6
.@MinkaraSara became an activist because she wanted to challenge stereotypes about #disability. So she developed #DiningintheDark. Here’s how she & @UNDP_Lebanon use food to show strengths in disability: bit.ly/2tIjPVc
#ZeroDiscriminationDay #DisabilityRights
EMujer is a solar engineering school led by women deep in the Peruvian #AmazonRainforest. They learn to install #solarpanels & connect remote villages to power grids. See how @PNUDperu & @theGEF
support #GenerationEquality: expi.co/01nc8A #IWD2020
From the fluffiest mammal to the tiniest of reptiles, a million plant & animal species face extinction. See how @UNDPSriLanka & @theGEF are protecting one of the last wild frontiers in #SriLanka to safeguard all #LifeOnEarth: expi.co/01neE1
#Biodiversity2020
Fatuma is one of 5️⃣2️⃣ female lawyers trained on the law degree set up by @UNDP and Puntland State University.
In 2012, only 1️⃣ of Puntland’s lawyers was a woman!
#SDG16 #SDG5 #accesstojustice #RuleOfLaw
Retweeted by UN Development How can we support fashion that is #fairtrade, ethical & environmentally-friendly? Our Goodwill Ambassador #MichelleYeoh offers ways you can transform the fashion sector through the power of consumer purchasing power. #ParisFashionWeek #FashionWeek undp.org/content/undp/e…
"Fashion has become more affordable, & we have more of it. But the actual costs are much higher, & much more devastating, than we realize." @UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh on why and how to be an informed consumer news.trust.org/item/202002201… #ForPeopleForPlanet #FashionWeek
Retweeted by UN Development Over the past 50 years, humans have destroyed half of the world’s tropical forests & degraded 40% of all land on Earth. Over a million species are threatened with extinction. #Biodiversity2020 agreement offers a #NewDealForNature. #WWD2020 expi.co/01neCO
Last year, artisanal miners produced +50% of the gold in Zimbabwe. But without balance, mining is devastating for human health & healthy biodiversity. Our @UNDPZimbabwe #AcceleratorLabs teams offer a transparent solution #ForPeopleForPlanet: expi.co/01neCM
The #treekangaroo was almost hunted to extinction in Papua New Guinea. Now hunters are protecting the last of these rare marsupials with help from @theGEF & @UNDPinPNG:
expi.co/01neCN #Biodiversity2020 #LifeOnEarth
78% of Zambia's small-scale farmers are women. Droughts & floods over the past 30 yrs have cost Zambia +US$13.8b. Farmers are deploying real-time forecasts, using insurance, & growing drought-tolerant crop varieties to reduce risks. #ForPeopleForPlanet expi.co/01neCL
Using innovative coral growing tech, conservationists & #marinebiologist Lisa Carne from @FOH_Belize restored this #coralreef system off the 2nd largest #BarrierReef in the world from -6% coral cover to +50% in 7 yrs. #Biodiversity2020 #ForPeopleForPlanet expi.co/01neBj
This month, France announced a new #nature reserve around Mt Blanc - Europe's tallest peak.
Watch President @EmmanuelMacron and @IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie explain why #biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange are the ‘fight of the century’.
#Biodiversity2020
Retweeted by UN Development The fish were disappearing. The #coralreefs were dying. So Vitus and the Yap community of #Micronesia designed a ridge-to-reef movement to save the land & ocean. More on this #EquatorPrize winner here: expi.co/01nWco
#Biodiversity2020 #ForPeopleForPlanet
Deep in the #AmazonRainforest, the Kisêdjê people are planting #pequi trees to reforest the land. These #EquatorPrize winners produce sustainable pequi oil to plant more trees & preserve their #indigenousculture: bit.ly/2HPCj9Q
#Biodiversity2020 #ForpeopleForPlanet
Residents of Ulaanbaatar don’t just breathe #AirPollution. They can taste it. Last December, its air quality exceeded 30X the @WHO's safe limit. See how @UNDPMongolia
is supporting Mongolia's national #ClimateAction #ForPeopleForPlanet. undp.org/content/undp/e…
Beginning on Monday, delegates from over 140 nations come together in Rome to restart negotiations on a #biodiversity2020 agreement to safeguard all life on Earth.
The talks begin at 10:00 CET / 9:00 GMT.
Not in Rome? Watch the live webcast: fao.org/webcast/home/e…
Retweeted by UN Development 📢 Are you thinking about registering for our free online course on building a national#MPII with@UNDPP@Learning4Naturee? The period for booking has been extended! The course will run for 5 weeks from 16 March �bit.ly/PovertyIndexMO…YpC
Retweeted by UN Development Overfishing, pollution, ocean warming, acidification, 🌊 hypoxia, & invasive species are killing Earth’s 💙. Here’s how we work o#SDGsGs to protect the blue wildernessow.ly/Uzik30nWRBtUX #ForPeopleForPlanete#SaveOurOceana#Biodiversity20202gm
At #Biodiversity2020 this week? Play #Mission1Point5 & use #mobilegame technology to participate in the world’s largest survey on #ClimateAction. #VoteForClimate today: mission1point5.org
More than 1.5 million #migratoryspecies of birds travel through this part of Jordan. Rain or shine, even in below zero 🌡️, Malek protects them as they migrate between Europe, Asia, and Africa. @UNDPJordann explains how we work#ForPeopleForPlanett in 🇯�#Biodiversity20200Xxh
We are generating more waste than nature can handle. Our garbage affects the health of #biodiversity. As #Biodiversity2020 begins to restart negotiations to safeguard all #LifeOnEarth, see our #SDGsToday: bit.ly/2RDUNip
#ForPlanetForPeople #UN75
Humans weigh just 0.01% of the life on Earth. Yet our actions have caused the destruction of 83% of all wild mammals & half of plants on Earth according to a study from @PNASNews.
Ahead of #WorldWildLifeDay, join us &
@CITES for #LifeOnEarth: wildlifeday.org
#WWD2020
Starting on Monday, representatives from over 140 countries will meet in Rome to chart a path on safeguarding #biodiversity. 🌱🌳🌿
The negotiations will culminate in the adoption of t#biodiversity2020020 framework #COP15P15 in October.
Learn morcbd.int/conferences/po…8YLH
Retweeted by UN Development .@UNDP's renewed partnership w @UNDRR will allow us to provide even better support to countries on disaster risk reduction & ramp-up their efforts to tackle climate risks 4 #ClimateActionNow. Here's more: ow.ly/zF6U50ysMlx
Retweeted by UN Development Ghana is turning #plasticpollution into bricks & tiles. See #circulareconomy in motion. #ForPeopleForPlanet africa.undp.org/content/rba/en…
People with disabilities are 2x as likely to be unemployed. In #Azerbaijan, 500 entrepreneurs w/ disabilities are creating businesses & jobs for communities through @UNDPAzerbaijan's #SelfEmployment initiative with @sosial_gov_az: bit.ly/2ONcpYo #ZeroDiscriminationDay
What would you do without a home or country? Ahmed, Soraya, & their family are Syrian refugees in Malaysia. Watch their story in the Season 3 premiere of @UNDPasiapac's #ExtremeLives storytelling initiative w/
@europeaid & @Facebook: expi.co/01ne3O #FragilityForum
We asked our Chief Digital Officer @Robert_Opp
about his vision for #DigitalUNDP in 2020 & why our #DigitalTransformation matters for #SDGs acceleration. See the Q&A & read more about #NextGenUNDP: digitalstrategy.undp.org
A “maternity wing” for expecting 🐘 mums? Together with@GEF_SGPP communities are protecting the only rainforest in Kenya & its wildlife:bit.ly/2HKnGELR#Biodiversity20200#WWD20200z
The Kisêdjê’s culture was on the brink of collapse until they began a movement to plant Pequi trees on deforested soil & process the fruit for sale. See how they’re reviving cultural identity & healing the Amazon
🌳 🌳 #Biodiversity20202#EquatorPrizezmedium.com/@UNDP/the-pequ…gW
These are sargablocks, bricks made from #sargassum. Mexico’s #RivieraMaya is one of the trendiest #VisitMexico destinations but inequality & housing costs are ⏫. Omar builds 🏡 out of invasive seaweed for families who dream of affordable home ownership:expi.co/01ne0PTU
#DYK Renewable energy, coupled with energy efficiency gains, can provide 90% of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed by 2050. #SustainableEnergy #ClimateAction
Retweeted by UN Development When the road is as smooth as @UNDPSomalia's, whether you're going to school, work, or bringing goods to market, the options are endless! See how a governance project supported by 🇪🇺🇳🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧 transformed this Somali town aftbit.ly/326f84q.#FragilityForumF.co/Z571TblRY1
The story of Gorongosa National Park is a tale of hope. 90-99% of wildlife were killed during the civil war in Mozambique. Today, both the forest & wildlife population are back: expi.co/01nMvO #Biodiversity2020 #ForPeopleForPlanet
🌊Rising seas.
🌩️More frequent floods, storms, & landslides.
🥵Escalating heatwaves & droughts.
🐠Acidifying oceans #coralbleachinghing.
Millions of lives are at stake. See how we work w@theGCFeGCF &a@theGEFe#ForPeopleForPlanetanexpi.co/01nUOtuiqgw
Chocolate powered by blockchain-based technology?
What about #FairTrade #chocolate that pays farmers 2X the market rate? Meet #TheOtherBar, developed by @FairChainOrg &
@PNUDEcuador: bit.ly/2HKMv3A
#Biodiversity2020
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