Insightful reflections on watery and wetland matters for final few days of #COP28

"Not waving, drowning: Why keeping warming under 1.5 C is a life-or-death matter for tidal marshes" Just one example of why rapid phase out of fossil fuels and 1.5c goal is critical for nature &ecosystems and that things are complicated &connected #COP28 phys.org/news/2022-07-l…

Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Warm up webinar (30 Jan) to #WorldWetlandsDay on the precious High Andean wetlands, what lithium mining could mean for the communities and nature that depend on them, and what sort of solutions can deliver better alignment between #climate and #biodiveristy goals 🦩🦩🦩

Every so often this is painfully relevant: “There is nothing those with power who are defending the status quo like more than for those advocating change in the public interest to argue amongst themselves. Some good causes get nowhere for this reason." wcl.org.uk/august-2018.asp

Not quite as upset and horrified by this as by the devastating provisions on climate and nature policy, but it's close 😭

okay it's not close theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Are you developing a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP)? Are you trying to reverse the loss and degradation of #wetlands? This new guide from Convention on Wetlands will help, with info on actions, indicators, monitoring etc... 35percent #PartOfThePlan

The only thing I ever tweet appears to be train journeys nowadays, but better to do that elsewhere nevertheless: bsky.app/profile/mslaur…