Supervisory Board Member 🇪🇺 EIT Food | Former 🇨🇦 Climate Diplomat | Former Climate-KIC Lead | 🇨🇭Spearheading Climate & Impact Innovation +25 years
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Help I misspelled my son's name on his international ticket and he travels in 19 hours - he is travelling alone and I am already in a different country.
Katherine Foster retweeted
In Ojibwe our word for healing is noojmowin. National Day for Truth & Reconciliation Symposium at @LaurentianU. Miigwech to presenters Dr. Shirley Williams, Elder Lorne Bob and TRC Coordinator Jason Nakogee.
Researchers at Australia’s Flinders University hope the acoustic method will make it easier to find and fix soil degradation
Source: the Guardian search.app/F2SZxa9eCGcgdUuw5
A large sample of European drinking water has detected a substance linked to "forever chemicals" used in pesticides and refrigeration
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What is the Nature Restoration Law? Inside the first-of-its-kind regulation approved in Europe today #naturerestoration #biodiverstity euronews.com/green/2024/06/1…
The UK's wettest spring on record is a soggy reminder of the threat climate change poses to food security #foodsecurity #climate #agriculture bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @climate
Using humour during presentations helps men but harms women - people view them as having lower levels of status, rate their performance as lower, and consider them less capable as leaders. hbr.org/2019/03/making-jokes…
Rewarding farmers for regenerative agriculture is ‘critical for decarbonising the food sector’ reuters.com/sustainability/l…
100-foot 'walking tree' in New Zealand looks like an Ent from Lord of the Rings — and is the lone survivor of a lost forest livescience.com/planet-earth…
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Farmers across the #EU are voicing their struggles.🚜 Reasons vary from increasing costs to unfair competition & environmental changes.
We need a #RegenerativeFoodSystem supporting farmers, says our CEO Richard.
How can we help? tinyurl.com/yd3c39t5
#RegenerateToAccelerate
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No land, no food. Collaboration is key to restoring landscapes for #SustainableFood production. 🌍
In partnership with Food Valley, we have launched the Regenerative Innovation Portfolio to foster #RegenerativeAgriculture.
#WorldEnvironmentDay #RegenerateToAccelerate
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What are #NaturebasedSolutions and what global challenges can they help with?
Learn more ➡️ shorturl.at/wyzAV
#UNEA6
Rewilding: How a herd of bison reintroduced to Romania is helping ‘supercharge’ carbon removal euronews.com/green/2024/05/1…
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Most of the Earth's biodiversity is found in our soils.... but soil biodiversity is declining.
The good news is that the loss is reversible!
What we can do to protect #SoilBiodiversity & our planet everyday 👇 #GenerationRestoration
Via @FAO
Katherine Foster retweeted
NEW: The world's most powerful countries are considering a novel climate proposal:
Impose a 2 percent climate tax on the world's richest 3,000 people—and give the money **directly** to people in climate-vulnerable countries heated.world/p/nobel-prize-w…
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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🔟things you can do to #SaveOurOcean. #OceanDecade
@UNDP
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💧Water is life.
💧Water is food.
❌Water is NOT an infinite resource.
It's time to stop taking water for granted.
Let's take #WaterAction for food and be the change our world needs.
Excellent extract from a great report by @MadhviMavadiya - What will the UK climate fintech space look like in 2035? finextra.com/the-long-read/9… via @Finextra
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There are more living organisms in 1 teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on Earth!
Safeguarding natural resources and biodiversity is critical to people’s health and that of our planet too.
#EarthDay #GenerationRestoration
EU parliament gave a final green light to new rules obliging firms to mitigate their negative impact on human rights and environment! europarl.europa.eu/news/en/p… via @Europarl_EN
