Supervisory Board Member 🇪🇺 EIT Food | Former 🇨🇦 Climate Diplomat | Former Climate-KIC Lead | 🇨🇭Spearheading Climate & Impact Innovation +25 years
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Joined July 2012
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Katherine Foster retweeted
In Ojibwe our word for healing is noojmowin. National Day for Truth & Reconciliation Symposium at @LaurentianU. Miigwech to presenters Dr. Shirley Williams, Elder Lorne Bob and TRC Coordinator Jason Nakogee.
Katherine Foster retweeted
Farmers across the #EU are voicing their struggles.🚜 Reasons vary from increasing costs to unfair competition & environmental changes.
We need a #RegenerativeFoodSystem supporting farmers, says our CEO Richard.
How can we help? tinyurl.com/yd3c39t5
#RegenerateToAccelerate
Katherine Foster retweeted
No land, no food. Collaboration is key to restoring landscapes for #SustainableFood production. 🌍
In partnership with Food Valley, we have launched the Regenerative Innovation Portfolio to foster #RegenerativeAgriculture.
#WorldEnvironmentDay #RegenerateToAccelerate
Katherine Foster retweeted
What are #NaturebasedSolutions and what global challenges can they help with?
Learn more ➡️ shorturl.at/wyzAV
#UNEA6
Katherine Foster retweeted
Most of the Earth's biodiversity is found in our soils.... but soil biodiversity is declining.
The good news is that the loss is reversible!
What we can do to protect #SoilBiodiversity & our planet everyday 👇 #GenerationRestoration
Via @FAO
Katherine Foster retweeted
NEW: The world's most powerful countries are considering a novel climate proposal:
Impose a 2 percent climate tax on the world's richest 3,000 people—and give the money **directly** to people in climate-vulnerable countries heated.world/p/nobel-prize-w…
Katherine Foster retweeted
The ocean produces at least 50% of the🌎's oxygen. It's home to most of Earth’s biodiversity, & is the main source of protein & nutrition for more than 3 billion people.
Despite all this, the ocean is at risk.
Here are🔟things you can do to #SaveOurOcean. #OceanDecade
@UNDP
Katherine Foster retweeted
💧Water is life.
💧Water is food.
❌Water is NOT an infinite resource.
It's time to stop taking water for granted.
Let's take #WaterAction for food and be the change our world needs.
Katherine Foster retweeted
There are more living organisms in 1 teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on Earth!
Safeguarding natural resources and biodiversity is critical to people’s health and that of our planet too.
#EarthDay #GenerationRestoration
Katherine Foster retweeted
The finance sector has a critical role to play in mitigating financial risks to #BeatPlasticPollution.
Ahead of #INC4 beginning, great to see the global finance industry - from India to the US - call for an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty.
More from @UNEP_FI:
unepfi.org/news/160-financia…
Katherine Foster retweeted
We welcome the European Court of Human Rights @ECHR_CEDH ruling in #KlimaSeniorinnen case v. #Switzerland affirming that States have human rights obligations to sufficiently mitigate #climate change. Ruling provides a basis for determined action & justice globally - @volker_turk
Katherine Foster retweeted
“Besides his outstanding contributions to particle physics, Peter was a very special person, an immensely inspiring figure for physicists across the world, a man of rare modesty, a great teacher and someone who explained physics in a very simple and yet profound way. (1/2)
Katherine Foster retweeted
WBCSD’s Agriculture & Food pathway envisions a regenerative, equitable food system — producing healthy, safe and nutritious food for all, including solutions to grow the share and diversity of regeneratively produced plants & alternative proteins in diets. wbcsd.org/Programs/Food-and-…
Katherine Foster retweeted
In Ojibwe our word for eclipse is makadewapikizi (pronounced ma-ka-de-wa-pi-ki-zi). Also translates to the dark alignment of life is before us- be careful. Music by Thunder Hill.
Katherine Foster retweeted
The next round of talks to agree a #PlasticsTreaty to #BeatPlasticPollution will be hosted by Canada.
Today I signed @UNEP🇨🇦 Host Country agreement for #INC4 with Christopher Thornley, Canada's High Commissioner for Kenya. Grateful for🇨🇦 leadership in tackling our plastic crisis
Katherine Foster retweeted
Coming up at 16:00 I Securing water for tomorrow - What course should the EU take?
Join us to discuss what can and needs to be done to protect EU waters and ecosystems.
📺 Livestream: eurac.tv/9WTn
Katherine Foster retweeted
👩🏾🌾 Farmers
🌳 Foresters
🎣 Fisherwomen
🧪 Agri-Scientists
📚 Keepers of indigenous knowledge
& so much more…
No matter the role, women in agrifood systems are leading the change for a better world.
#WomensDay #GenerationEquality #InvestInWomen
Katherine Foster retweeted
In Ojibwe our word for bear is makwa (pronounced ma-kwa). Our word for February is Makwa-geezis or bear moon. Music by Thunder Hill. Art by @mishiikenhkwe.
Katherine Foster retweeted
Soil health and the quality and availability of water are interconnected.
For example, healthy soil can retain 25% of its volume in water.
This means that water availability is impacted by the health of our soils.
#SoilAction #WaterAction
