Weight of all land mammals 🌍 30% Humans 👨🏼‍🦰👩🏽👨🏾👵🏿👴🏻 67% Human Livestock 🐄🐂🐏🐖🐐 and pets 🐩🐈🐇 3% Wild animals 🐘🦏🦛🐆🐅🦓🦍🦒 We slaughtered the megafauna Now we are causing the #ClimateCrisis & the 6th #MassExtinction ☄️ Welcome to the #Anthropocene #saveourplanet

Eight things the world must do to avoid worst of #ClimateChange 1. Stop methane emissions 2. Stop deforestation 🌳 3. Restore degraded land 4. Change what we eat 5. Go #RenewableEnergy 6. Electrify everything 7. Stop burning all #FossilFuels 8. #ActNow theguardian.com/environment/20…

Exciting last week at IRRI 🌾 when we , the IRRI genetic innovation team (Breeding , Seed Systems , Market Intelligence, Genebank , Breeding Resources) had amazing time with CGIAR Genetic Innovation Managing Director Dr Sonja Vermeulen for in-depth discussions and interaction

📅 1–5 July 2024: Save the date for the first-ever #CGIARScienceWeek! 🎉 We'll be bringing together the global community working for a food, nutrition and climate-secure future to forge new partnerships and inspire action. #WithScienceWeCan Info ⏬ on.cgiar.org/49e0KZs

On March 29, the Count walks into the Metropol Hotel — on SHOWTIME and Paramount+ #AGentlemanInMoscow

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! ⚗️🌿 I'm inspired every day by CGIAR's amazing women scientists - thank you Dr. Swati Nayak for sharing your experiences and advice. #WomeninScience

Chasing the magic number - when will the AMOC collapse? We know it can collapse. Has collapse many times. And we are moving towards collapse. IPCC puts probability to < 10%. Low? Oh no, For a catastrophic event, this is VERY high. World needs to wake up. insideclimatenews.org/news/09022024/…

"By one estimate, lifetime exposures to plastic chemicals cost the U.S. $249 billion in health care in 2018." Hope lies with passage of a Global Plastics Treaty -- can it succeed? e360.yale.edu/features/pvc-p…

Using the power of media to educate is the hallmark of the “edutainment for development” approach. 🆕blog on takeaway findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of a popular television series designed around gender and women’s health and rights: ow.ly/tNtC50QEaEf CGIAR

“Women & girls must be able to fully & meaningfully participate in all aspects of Afghan life.” At last week’s conference on the future of Afghanistan, António Guterres reiterated that the existing bans on girls’ access to education & women’s employment must be reversed.

Join us for #CGIARScienceWeek!

Today from Truckee to Texas, communities are coming face-to-face with the devastating impacts of the climate crisis. 100mph winds and 12’ of snow are battering the Sierra Nevada while crews battle the largest wildfire in Texas history. We owe it to our our communities, neighbors,

It was great to join this super talented team for a conversation today. With science, collaboration, and comms we can...!

From 1990 to 2019, child mortality worldwide was cut by more than half. It’s one of the most important things humanity has ever done—and now, we have the opportunity to do it again: gatesnot.es/3VTlZMF

Nearly every climate denial argument I’ve ever heard falls into one of these five categories. 1 - it’s not real 2 - it’s not us 3 - it’s not bad 4 - it’s too hard/costly to fix 5 - it’s too late And you know which is growing the fastest these days? The last one 😳

Big Food vs Real Food and escaping the food matrix. Interesting discussion...

Excited to be at this event, albeit online! I will miss the yummy lunch and networking but look forward to connecting with dear colleagues and friends online to share our insights on emerging evidence on diets and nutrition. IFPRI

Happy #EarthDay from CGIAR! 🌍 👩‍🌾 Proud to be working for an organization that is working towards biodiverse and sustainable food systems - essential to a healthy planet. 🌍

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis

My message to young people, civil society & other climate activists: You're on the right side of history. You speak for the majority. Keep it up. Don’t lose hope. It’s We the Peoples vs. the polluters and the profiteers. Together, we can win.