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🌍 UNEP's latest foresight report, "Navigating New Horizons," highlights 8 critical global shifts impacting planetary health and human wellbeing. With 18 signals of change identified by global experts, the report urges for proactive, anticipatory action to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. It's time to leverage human ingenuity for a sustainable future. Let's embrace adaptive governance and innovative solutions to safeguard our planet! #Sustainability #ClimateAction UN Environment Programme UN Biodiversity GYBN Africa

World Environment Day 2024 Theme focuses on “Land Restoration, Desertification, and Drought Resilience”. The multifarious significance of this theme can be seen as follows: Highlighting a Critical Issue: Land degradation and desertification are major threats, impacting food security, biodiversity, and climate change. Bringing attention to this issue raises awareness and encourages action. Urgency for Action: The theme emphasizes the actions that are crucial amidst the intensification of the triple planetary crisis: Climate Change, Nature and Biodiversity Loss, and Pollution and Waste. Shared Responsibility: The theme underscores that restoring our planet’s ecosystems requires collective action and individual responsibility. It encourages everyone to contribute to solutions. Empowering Youth: The #GenerationRestoration hashtag in the slogan 2024 emphasizes the role of young people in leading the change towards a more sustainable future. It inspires and motivates them to take action. Alignment with Global Goals: The theme aligns with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) and the Sustainable Development Goals, promoting a holistic approach to environmental protection.

I am excited to announce that I have completed my online course, Digital Sustainability for Biodiversity Action. With digital sustainability, I believe it is an important step in directing our solution for environmental problems where climate challenges are urgent. This course has equipped me with new knowledge and tools which I am excited to implement into practice. We ought to utilize digital solutions for the better in sustainability from combating climate change. If we all band together, a greener resilient planet awaits us. #SustainabilityOfDigital #ActionForBiodiversity #OnlineLearning #EnvironmentalAwareness #LinkedInLearning

Ipieca convenes members and stakeholders to address the interconnected areas of climate change ☁, biodiversity 🍃, social responsibility 🤝, and sustainable development 🔄.  By fostering dialogue and collaboration, Ipieca aims to drive progress in these areas, ensuring a holistic approach to the challenges and opportunities they present. Click here for more about the work we do 👉 https://lnkd.in/gPGsp8r5 #Ipieca50

Here we go! Whilst the 16th annual #priinperson is taking place in Toronto, I’m here in Sydney where the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 is about to kick off with a welcome to country by the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, traditional owners of the land on which the summit takes place It is an important year for ambition on Nature and Biodiveristy, with an increasing look to how investors and others can contribute to a #naturepositive future and where in a few weeks we’ll sea global leaders converge at #cop16. This will be the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It will be a key moment to see how parties to the Convention are aligning their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) with the Framework. I have high hopes to see more alignment between climate, nature and social goals and actions. Principles for Responsible Investment

Radical transformations are needed to the structures and norms that have long influenced how development, climate and conservation work to advance equity. New paper, out today! https://lnkd.in/eBah-e23

🌐 Join Carbonable tomorrow for an important event: the launch of the 1t.org European Chapter at Salesforce France! We're coming together to advance a global mission with local impact, fostering the growth and restoration of ecosystems across Europe. 🌱 Event info: 📅 Date/Time: June 25, 2024, 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM 📍 Location: Salesforce France, 3 Avenue Octave Gréard, 75007 Paris 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/ewEQvTWB 1t.org's mission - to conserve, restore, and grow one trillion trees by 2030 - is critical in the fight against biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. 🌳 Tomorrow, meet Carbonable’s Nassiba Benazzouz and Thibaut SANTIER, who are eager to share how our platform supports these efforts by making it easier for organizations to plan, supply, control, track, and report on their nature-based solutions and any other environmental assets. Say hello if you see us around! 👋 📢 About 1t.org: Supported by the World Economic Forum, 1T.org fosters global collaboration to achieve the monumental goal of planting one trillion trees. This initiative not only restores biodiversity but also addresses climate challenges.

UNEP has kicked off the search for 2024 Young Champions of the Earth! The UN Environment Programme Young Champions of the Earth is a forward-looking prize designed to breathe life into the ambitions of brilliant young environmentalists. Humanity is using the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to maintain our way of life, and nature cannot keep up. Global leaders have agreed to turn things around – under the Global Biodiversity Framework and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). Now it is time to use our voices, choices, and actions to make change happen. We cannot turn back time. But we can work with nature to build a resilient planet, reduce emissions, and create sustainable livelihoods. If you are a young person between the ages of 18 and 30 with a pathbreaking vision for our planet's future, you can become a #YoungChamps winner! Apply via unep.org/youngchampions before April 5th.

🌎Tackling the net-zero transition, reducing forest loss, and promoting biodiversity: today's most pressing climate and nature challenges call for collaboration across sectors and philanthropies. But the impact will rely on effective partnerships. Based on our data-driven analysis, we're sharing a framework to evaluate the materiality, suitability, and feasibility of these public–private–philanthropic partnership models. Discover how stakeholders can drive action: https://mck.co/3RTcOYZ And learn how sustainability will shape our conversations at #wef24 in Davos: https://mck.co/3Scm4rx #McKinseyAtDavos #SustainableInclusiveGrowth

Accountabilities, Duties, Roles, Moral Responsibilities, High Professional Standards, and Leadership Competencies in the Digital Age of Unprecedented Change: - The Macroeconomics of Cognitive Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Hiring and Retaining the right FIT C-suite Executives and Business Leaders. Find out how highly successful EXPERTS leverage cutting edge science, harness Artificial Intelligence technology and unlock IT potential to transform global challenges into great financial opportunities.   What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology? Discover the list of the TOP 30 most in-demand skills and core leadership digital competencies required and necessary for the positions of C-level managers, C-suite executives, business leaders and board of directors in the digital age of change and in the disruptive era of emerging technologies?    Is Your organization at risk? Learn more about the TOP 50 Global High Risks and Challenges from the right highly talented C-suite Executives and Experts. "If we don't thoughtfully harness the benefits of AI, inequality will grow in a way that is going to be very unhealthy for the world."    What is Digital Leadership? About the roles and accountabilities of C-level managers, C-suite executives, leaders? What are the fiduciary duties and legal responsibilities of the board of directors in the digital age of change?  "Dear Mr Beuns, Welcome to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2024. Your Davos Daily Update on Tuesday, 16 January 2024: More than 350 heads of state, government and ministers are in Davos to make progress on advancing climate action, strengthening the global economy, building resilience and addressing questions on frontier technologies."   Cutting-edge technologies, and the rapid generative AI development, are challenging multinational organizations, multilateral institutions, and global business companies to decide how and where to use the tech most effectively in the new year and beyond. At the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meetings in Davos, Switzerland, Europe, the generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is and will remain in the spotlight from Jan 19 to 19, as global leaders, experts, visionaries, and executives discuss the latest technology trends in scaling, value creation, talent, and more.   What is Digital Leadership? Find out how to manage and execute with Technological Prowess, cleverness, and the right Digital Growth Mindset Beyond Boundaries to Close Digital Divide and Bridge Digital Skills Gaps? .   In many of my executive and leadership positions, I am humbled by the extraordinary opportunity to manage, execute, and lead with cleverness, technological prowess to innovate bold solutions. And, more importantly, I have been using the right digital growth mindset beyond boundaries to motivate, innovate, inspire, educate and help people unlock their full IT potential while closing Digital Divide and bridging Digital Skills Gaps.