Valerie Hickey
@ValerieMHickey
@WorldBank Global Director Env, Nat Resources and the Ocean @WBG_Environment. The views are mine and are not positions of the WB. Retweets are not endorsements.
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Tomorrow is happening today in #SIDS , as #SmallIslands are dealing with the #ClimateBreakdown today. They are innovating to overcome it; innovation we’ll all benefit from
That’s why Selwin Hart speaks so cogently about climate justice at #SIDS 4
ipsnews.net/2024/05/unitin…
Too often #SmallIslands are synonymous with vulnerability. But #SIDS are much more - they are Large Island Ocean Nation States, & LIONS mean business.
Which is why at #SIDS 4 we’re talking about the #BlueEconomy as an engine of jobs & GDP for islands
wrld.bg/f4P850RTiGi
No more excuses - we have the authorizing environment to finally and forever end the #BiodiversityCrisis and by so doing, help #EndPoverty
Because we’ll never have a world without poverty if we live in a world without #nature
Best description of #ClimateChange by Meike van Ginneken at #WBGMeetings
Climate mitigation=CO2
Climate adaptation=H2O
We experience the #ClimateCrisis when our home floods, or crops fail. When our car stalls in a flooded street & we miss a day’s pay. When dirty water makes us sick
Shocking numbers on #AirPollution from Jane Burston during #WBGMeetings
7m dead/yr
6% global GDP welfare losses
And yet…
This problem form hell gets less than 1% of global development financing and less than 2% of climate finance
#CleanAir is the intentional byproduct of clean energy investments that are also an agenda to #EndPoverty and combat the #ClimatCrisis …. Clean air is an asset that accelerates strong economies ….from Arunabha Ghosh at #WBGMeetings
Want to grow fast? Grow green!
The world doesn’t need World Bank to have just another meeting to combat #AirPollution , it needs real solutions, properly financed to unlock #LivableAir ….from Axel van Trotsenburg’s call to action at #WBGMeetings
Let’s bend the curve of air pollution deaths from 7m/yr to ZERO!
Lead poisoning kills 5m people/yr. & wipes ~ 800m IQ points from kids every/yr. Costing economies $6tr/year
That’s how my #WBGmeeting started today. Talking about how to #EndPoverty by ending lead poisoning Center for Global Development
We can end lead poisoning - together
cgdev.org/event/towards-…
On #IntlForestsDay , there is a sobering irony we cannot ignore: some of the world’s financially poorest people are asked to protect, at their expense, the world’s richest natural capital
This is an irony we must break
How? #ForestsForUs
youtube.com/watch?v=_Ii4Ek…
Happy international forests day - World Bank we celebrate forests as an engine of jobs, energy access, climate adaptation (& mitigation) and a home for amazing #biodiversity
Hear from our partners below how they’ve made that engine work for them
worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/…
To all the women today on #WomensDay , and everyday, who hold up the world and who built the path that I can walk today, thank you.
Huge thanks to Rwanda Environment Management Authority and State Minister Dr. Claudine Uwera for such a warm welcome to everyone participating at #NCForum24 today in #Kigali
Not only is Rwanda’s story of growing fast by being #GreenRwanda contagious, so too is their incredible drumming and dancing!
#visitrwanda
On #WorldWildlifeDay ten years ago when I wrote the blog below, wildlife crime was decimating populations of #rhino , #elephant
Today, thanks to the hard work of African countries and communities, the world didn’t lose the fight against wildlife crime
blogs.worldbank.org/voices/Fight-t…
. World Health Organization (WHO) ‘s Dr Maria Neira reminds us at #UNEA6 despite there being no glory in prevention including for checmicals #pollution , countries have experience doing it anyway
Though it took 40 years, #lead was finally removed from gasoline in every country when #Algeria did it in 2021
As I get older I worry about who will take up the baton to keep tackling the triple #environmental crisis
Luckily I don’t worry much because I meet young professionals like Shannon Lisa Shannon Lisa 🧪 who gave a compelling call to action on chemicals pollution at #UNEA6
Chemistry is a man’s job
Wrong!
Not in 2023 when SteffiLemke led a team of German women to deliver the #GlobalFrameworkonChemicals
Not in 2024 at #UNEA6 where a panel on chemical #pollution & its chemistry, engineering & policy is 6 women (and the ever impressive Rolph Payet)