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Public health communications (WHO/Europe) Podcasts: Not if but When (Health in Europe, WHO/Europe) Books: Open my Eyes/ Sugar Sugar/ The Whispering Trees Nature and conservation T1D mum. West Country. Views my own.
No-one, NO-ONE,should be granted a “request for near-blanket immunity for serious environmental crimes”
If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy
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We're calling up all governments at the United Nations Oceans Conference #UNOC next week to end bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas 🌊 As Sir David Attenborough put it in his latest movie Ocean: 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉 Read more at www.doggerland.earth
A bunch of bink and blue roses and love in a mist.
Flowers for a friend from my garden.
I love the happy zizzing of this bee on my foxgloves ☺️#nature #bees
Text on dark background reads: 4.2 billion dollars for two years – or 2.1 billion a year – is not ambitious, it’s extremely modest. 2.1 billion dollars is the equivalent of: 8 hours of global military expenditure or, 1 stealth bomber or, 3 months’ advertising expenditure by the tobacco industry. "It seems somebody switched the price tags on what is truly valuable in our world." Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
WHO faces a 21% reduction from the original proposed budget for the 2026-27 biennium.
“If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int
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WHO Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the #WHA78, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of a historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics.
Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4
Vaccines are rigorously tested, effective, and save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines!
But you may be worried about what's in them.
So, let’s break it down. ⬇
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That is indeed exciting news!
Copper beech tree
Tender new, translucent leaves on an old copper beech tree in my village.
What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights?
I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has.
It’s from Is A River Alive?
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Disinformation makes the difficult job of climate scientists even harder #climatecrisis www.who.int/europe/news-...
My Romanian uni friend used to exclaim "What a Wonker!" so now that's my expletive of choice.
Hugely important warning: allowing cheaper US food imports that don’t meet the same environmental & animal protection standards as British farmers would sound a death knell for UK farms & rural communities. It must not be part of any future trade deal
Despite the misplaced fears of COVID deniers and conspiracists, this is REALLY GOOD NEWS. Cooperation and collaboration can save lives across the world and we must work together to prevent and fight pandemics. #pandemicaccord
This is what’s happening with 1.3C of global heating above preindustrial levels. We’re on track for 3C by 2100. Failure to leave fossil fuels in the ground is a devastating crime against humanity & against all other life on this, our one fragile earth
A small apple tree in a pot.
2 years ago I went for an Autumn walk with my brother and found a tree laden with delicious golden apples in a field. We stuffed our pockets, and I planted the seeds. I now have 8 little apple trees, and they make me very happy, even if they never bear fruit. #nature
The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.
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Pink magnolia tree in bloom.
Brief beauty.
NEW: Govt data CONFIRMS our estimate that UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to 371MtCO2e in 2024
As we said earlier this month, this took UK emissions to lowest level since 1872 – with coal use at its lowest since 1666 (!)
Our analysis: www.carbonbrief.org/...
First cows, now sheep. #H5N1 has not previously been detected in these mammals. Not good.
A huge plane tree with tortuous branches, blue sky behind.
So pleased to have met your fabulous funky tree.
What a wonderful world 🌎
What?!
Desperately sad. Long COVID is still blighting so many lives.
A female medic treats an intubated baby on a medevac flight.
This one is close to my heart. I hosted a new #podcast on #Medevac for #WHO Regional Office for Europe, talking to medics and patients, hearing stories from #Ukraine, #Gaza and #Armenia. Amazing humans, in challenging times. Please have a listen: health-in-europe.podbean.com/e/medevac/
Me too! He's a wonderful old boy.
He us- he came back with us from Ethiopia, where I found him on the street.
An old mongrel dog.
Frank- 14 this week. ❤️
Oh! Sunlit uplands- great cover!
