Paul Leadley

New report outlines recommendations to scale up carbon dioxide removals while addressing opportunities and risks

Today, @esabcc.bsky.social published its new report ‘Scaling up carbon dioxide removals – Recommendations for navigating opportunities and risks in the #EU’. See all the recommendations and full report: climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/news/new-rep... #ClimateChange #CarbonRemoval #EUClimateAction

A graphic from the IPBES Nexus Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers showing interactions between nature, institutions, anthropogenic assets, direct drivers, nature's contributions to people and good quality of life.

🌍🧪 The @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment Report shows how nature, institutions, and anthropogenic assets interact to shape quality of life through nature's contributions like water security, food security, and climate regulation.

Check this new graphic ⤵️

Visualizing the Decline of Earth’s Ecosystems Critical ecosystems that sustain life on Earth have faced devastating declines over the past few centuries.

🌍 Nature is declining faster than ever. Since 1700:

🔹 Wetlands: -85% 🌊

🔹 Coral Reefs: -50% 🪸

🔹 Forests: -32% 🌳

🔹 Ecosystems: -47% overall

A great visualization of @ipbes.net data by Visual Capitalist and Zero Carbon Analytics ⤵️

www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/visualizi...

🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project!

🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean

Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/]
📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/]

Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject

Participez au VivAgriLab le 16/01/2025 à @agroparistech.bsky.social pour la 5ème édition de la journée de rencontre Chercheurs-Acteurs locaux sous le thème : « L’eau en agriculture face aux extrêmes climatiques »

📍Informations : tinyurl.com/2fzptnfd
📩 Organisé par l’OI C-BASC & Terre et Cité

A graphic from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers. Figure SPM.2 The framework of transformative change for a just and sustainable world. Section A indicates views, structures and practices (the inner golden spirals) being strongly shaped by the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline (solid grey ring). Section B shows shifts in views, structures and practices breaking the influence of the underlying causes when they are guided by the four key principles of transformative change (blue ring). Section C illustrates a just and sustainable world, with prevailing views, structures, and practices aligned with the principles of transformative change. This framework can be used by different actor groups to help identify where and how they can promote, accelerate and scale the process of transformative change towards a just and sustainable world.

The @ipbes.bsky.social #TransformativeChange Assessment Report examines fundamental changes required for a future where people live in harmony with nature.🌍🧪

Explore the framework for change in this graphic ⤵️

Learn more: www.ipbes.net/transformati...

A chart by the World Economic Forum titled Global Risks Ranked by Severity. Extreme weather events and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are ranked 1 and 2 respectively under long term (10 year) risks.

Environmental risks dominate @weforum.org Global Risks Report 2025.

Extreme weather & #biodiversity loss top 10-year threats. Pollution rises in short-term urgency. 🌍

The IPBES #NexusAssessment just showed how important it is to tackle interlinked crises together.

www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Great to have been contributing to the @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment report. Happy it has been approved by the Plenary at #IPBES11

Summary for policy makers available www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-...

Final full report coming soon

The seamstress of the bird world.

Nature is amazing. Protect it.

#ActOnClimate #biodiversity #climate #deforestation #GreenNewDeal

NOAA told to search its grants for climate change terms The search would provide a list of NOAA's climate change-related grants.

It was only a matter of time before the climate purge: NOAA told to search its grants for climate change terms www.axios.com/2025/02/09/n...

How to Repair the Planet? One Answer Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight. (Gift Article) We tend to look at environmental problems in isolation. A holistic approach would be more effective, a new report says.

Happy New Year! If you missed this IPBES report, today seems like a good day to check it out. Here’s a link to our story that won’t hit a paywall.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/c...

In California Fires, Trump Blames Newsom for Withholding Water. Experts Disagree. (Gift Article) President Trump has blamed a lack of water during the Los Angeles fires on California decisions that benefit a small fish. Yet experts say he’s confusing different issues.

Is there a connection between a tiny endangered fish and a lack of water for fighting the Los Angeles wildfires? Here's the truth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article) The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

Trump ended the first-ever National Nature Assessment, which was trying to reveal how nature loss influences climate change and impacts humanity, but the researchers are trying to publish it anyway.

go.bsky.app/LjV86zg A work-in-progess starter pack for the IPBES stakeholder community

An infographic from FAO showing the positive relationship between pulses contributing to soil health and healthy soil providing ecosystem services in return.

🌿 Pulses and soils: a dynamic duo that sustain one another! 🌍🧪

Pulses improve soil health and well-maintained soils allow pulses to thrive.

For #WorldPulsesDay, explore this complementary relationship with @fao.org⤵️ #SaveSoil

Are you a scientist studying how the climate and #biodiversity crises are affecting the ocean and coastal ecosystems? 🐟🌊

BNP Paribas Foundation has opened a new call for projects like yours! Apply by 4 May 2025.

Find out more: fondation.bnpparibas/en/

It's official: Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio Win the 2025 Tyler Prize!

💬 "The climate crisis, biodiversity loss & inequalities are all connected." – Díaz & Brondízio

Let’s celebrate these changemakers!
#TylerPrize #Biodiversity #Sustainability #ClimateAction #GlobalSouth

IU professor Eduardo Brondizio awarded Tyler Prize for research on human impacts in Amazon With Argentinian ecologist Sandra Diaz, Brondizio documented how locals affect the environmental health of the Amazon.

A wonderful piece on Eduardo's Tyler Prize recognition today.
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/e...

Bravo Sandra and Eduardo! Well deserved! Paul L