EnviroIndex

Global glacial melt 🗻 per region #Ice loss (Gigatons/year) 🧊 674 Global total Top 5: 200 Greenland 156 Arctic Canada & Alaska 118 Antarctic 34 Southern Andes 25 Russian Arctic & North Asia #ClimateCrisis #SDG13 (@insideclimate)

#carbonneutral goals 137 countries committed ✅Bhutan & Suriname already carbon negative 2030-2045: Uruguay, Finland, Austria, Iceland, Germany, Sweden 2050: 124 countries 2060: China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine 2050-2100: Australia & Singapore (@VisualCap)

Drylands 🏜️ 3.8 billion people live in climate-vulnerable drylands 25% of the global population 50% of the world’s livestock 27%of the world’s forests (2019) store 30%of the world’s soil organic carbon supply ~60% of the world’s food production (2018) @FAO | @IUCN

#ClimateChange & Displaced people 33.4 million newly displaced (2019) ▪️ 70% due to climate-related disasters 🌀🔆🌪️🌧️ (2008–2018) 23M people/year ▪️ 90% of which have had weather-related triggers 🌊🌬️🔥 #ClimateCrisis @CGIAR | @CGIARclimate | @FAOclimate | @CARE

Top 10 Universities, #Environmental Science 🏫World Rankings, 2021. 1 🇺🇸 @HUCEnvironment 2 🇺🇸 @StanfordEarth 3 🇺🇸 @eapsMIT 4 🇬🇧 @ecioxford 5= 🇬🇧 @EarthSciCam 5= 🇳🇱 @WUR 7 🇨🇭 @ETH_ERDW 8 🇨🇳 @Tsinghua_Uni 9 🇺🇸 @NatureAtCal 10 🇬🇧 @imperialcollege (2021 Rank | @TopUnis)

🌋 Devastating eruptions VEI*, #Volcano, Country, Yr 7 Mt Tambora 🇮🇩 1815 6+ Ilopango 🇸🇻 450 6 Krakatoa 🇮🇩 1883 6 Laki 🇮🇸 1783 6 Pinatubo 🇵🇭 1991 6 Sta Maria 🇬🇹 1902 5 Vesuvius 🇮🇹 79 4 Mt Pelee 🇲🇶 1902 3 Nevado del Ruiz 🇨🇴 1985 2 Mt Unzen 🇯🇵 1792 *🌋Explosivity Index (@ausgeo)

#eWaste Generated Per Capita (kg/capita, 2019) 21 North America🌎 16 Europe 🌍 16 Oceania🌏 9 Latin America & Caribbean 🌎 6 Asia🌏 3 Africa 🌍 #CircularEconomy (@ChathamHouse)

Past Earth #Overshoot Dates 1970: December 29 1980: November 4 1990: October 11 2000: September 23 2010: August 7 2019: July 26 2020: August 22 2021: July 21 (@EndOvershoot)

Global Forest Loss, 2000-2020 🌲🌳 ~100 million hectares. @FAO

Mountains & Water #African #rivers, basins and #topography. Longest river: Nile Highest mountain: Mt. Kilimanjaro (via @Antropocenista & @TopographicMaps)

Flowing and enduring #nature... Free Flowing #Rivers Intact #Forest Landscapes #Mangroves #WorldWaterDay (March 22) #WorldForestDay (March 21) (@AgroDer | @AgroDer_Intl)

#InternationalWomensDay Almost 1/3 women’s employment globally is in agriculture, forestry and fishing (may exclude self-employed & unpaid family workers). Share in countries 9.5% upper-middle-income 2.6% high-income over 60% most low-income and lower-middle-income @UN

Average #foodwaste (kg/capita/yr) by region 110 West Asia 108 Sub-Saharan Africa 90 South Europe 82 SE Asia 81 Australia & NZ 74 North Europe 69 Latin America 69 North America 66 South Asia 65 West Europe 64 East Asia 61 East Europe @UNEP | via @theagroindex

#WorldEnergyEfficiencyDay #SDG7 Goal: Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030. Current annual rate: 1.2% per year -- >40% of the #emissions cuts needed to reach global #ClimateGoals can be achieved through #EnergyEfficiency. @COP26 | @studentenergy

#FoodLoss & #FoodWaste ActionWeek Food loss & waste alone could take the 3rd place 🥉in the country CO₂E emissions chart, with 4.4 GT ➡️1.6 billion tons of #foodwaste produced each year 🥇🇨🇳CHN 10.7 GT 🥈🇺🇸 USA 5.8 GT (Estimates, 2011/12) (@WorldResources | @entoprotech)

Freshwater #ForgottenFishes 🐟migratory populations have plummeted by 76% since 1970 🦈megafish global population, down by 94% 🎣16 species declared extinct in 2020 @WWFLeadWater @Nature_Org @ConservationOrg @IUCN_Water @InlandFisheries @globalwild_cc @bluemayfly @OfficialZSL

#InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻‍❄️ 10 facts: 1. Marine mammals 2. Black skin! 3. Speed: 40kmph land-10kmph water 4. Largest land carnivore 5. Smell from 1km & 1m of snow 6. Take snow baths 7. 2% hunt success 8. ~26,000 in the wild 9. live ~30 yr @ArticKingdom | @PolarBears | @wwf_uk

Monarch Butterfly Decline Wintering Monarch butterflies decline 26% in 2020 comparison with 2019... The cause: 🔥climate change or 🌲deforestation? @AP

7 agricultural commodities — cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and plantation wood fiber — accounted for 26% of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015. (@TraseEarth | @globalforests)