@niak-koh.bsky.social
Sustainability researcher: Biodiversity & Human rights at the Nature Positive Hub Oxford 🌏🍀👣 @ox.ac.uk | @IPBES.net Biz & Biodiv
If you need a ten-minute break from the horrors, ogle this selection of the year's best nature photography and read the story behind each photo, as written by me and @skylarknight.bsky.social. You will learn things that make the world seem a tiny bit brighter, I promise.
17.06.2025 03:03 — 👍 73 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 2
report summary
New paper in Biogeosciences: 35 authors highlight 8 challenges for the environment and offer solutions. A new website brings the science to decision-makers at every level.
#GlobalChange #Policy #Sustainability
👉 www.c-pob.org
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
I have a letter, actually! With sources and links! And I'm always adding to it.
24.02.2025 05:34 — 👍 48 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 3
2025 Current Perspectives on Biosphere Initiative - call for topics.
👉 survey:
survey.su.se/biosphere2025/
❗Deadline:
5th of March
📜 Review 2024 preprint:
doi.org/10.5194/egus...
🙏 please share and like
#science #climatechange #biodiversity #economy #society
An aerial image shows a landscape divided between lush green forest on the right and patchy agricultural land on the left. The road between the two areas runs vertically through the image. The text reads: "Call for Fellows: IPBES Spatial Planning Assessment. Deadline: 24 January 2025." The IPBES logo appears in the upper-right corner.
Call for Fellows! 🚨
@ipbes.bsky.social is seeking #EarlyCareer experts to join the Biodiversity #SpatialPlanningAssessment. Contribute to crucial work on conservation, restoration, land/sea use planning & connectivity! 🌍
🗓 Apply by 24 Jan 2025
🔗 More info: www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...
Integrated landscape approaches stand out as a "win-win-win-win" for biodiversity, water, food & climate (& health) in the new @ipbes.bsky.social nexus assessment. Great recognition for the 1000s of initiatives fostering landscapes for people, food & nature worldwide. www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-....
23.12.2024 17:32 — 👍 45 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1
At #IPBES11, talks on the Nexus Assessment focused on future nexus scenarios, such as those leading to a sustainable future, while talks on the Transformative Change Assessment addressed the systemic challenges posing barriers to transformational change
@ipbes.bsky.social #ForNature #Nature
To understand global south anger at the COP29 climate finance goal it's crucial to understand two key numbers.
1️⃣ "At least" $300bn/year - developed nations agreed to "take the lead" in mobilising this for developing countries
2️⃣ $1.3tn/year - a wider, vaguer goal
They sound pretty big! But...
go.bsky.app/LjV86zg A work-in-progess starter pack for the IPBES stakeholder community
16.11.2024 13:07 — 👍 467 🔁 172 💬 50 📌 14And an interview with the journal on key insights on Radical Incrementalism as an emerging environmental discourse:
environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/i...
🥳 Thrilled to have the final paper of my PhD out, a passion project of examining #discourses of #power and #politics in #hydropower and finding strategies for #change.
Thanks to the interviewees for sharing their stories, such striking quotes in the paper!
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
