{"id":4707,"date":"2021-10-22T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/llandudno2021\/?page_id=4707"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:50:54","slug":"thursday-28-october-2021-fpac-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/llandudno2021\/thursday-28-october-2021-fpac-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 28 October 2021 &#8211; FPAC Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Federation Programme Action Committee Meeting was all about Climate Change. It featured presentations by three prominent advocates of Climate Change, plus discussions in several Breakout Sessions. You can see the three presentations below.<\/p>\n<h3>Changing the world 1% at a time<\/h3>\n<p>Avani Ashwani is the youngest Indian to have visited the Antarctic. She did so as an environmental ambassador at the age of 18 and has been awarded the Karmaveer Chakra prize which is the global civilian honours given by the international confederation of NGO (iCONGO) in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations\">United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NmaV71E33E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Preserving biodiversity and protecting the climate<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Bonnie Waring is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist who studies how land ecosystems respond to climate change. She has lived and worked in Central American tropical forests, deserts in America&#8217;s Intermountain West, and Texan grasslands, carrying out experiments in the field and lab to better understand the ecological consequences of a changing climate. 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The United Nations Office in Nairobi focuses on environmental issues and covers the work of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3u_nR2rsLI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Feedback from the breakout sessions will be made available shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Federation Programme Action Committee Meeting was all about Climate Change. 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