Candice M D Stevens

🇿🇦 South Africa has done it again! With @environmentza and the Sustainable Finance Coalition we have activated the country’s first tax incentive for threatened species, such as rhino and lion. ➡️ Read more here: wildernessfoundation.co.za/a-dedicated-ta… #InnovativeFinance #ConservationFinance

How do we address questions of risk and risk averse mindsets so that we can launch new innovations for Africa and create sustainable finance? Great insights from the #SharedValueAfrica panel. #NewMindsets #InnovativeFinance

Today welcome #SharedValueAfrica initiative in support of profit, purpose, social impact & supporting entrepreneurship. Shameela Soobramoney (Manager: Group Strategy & Sustainability, JSE) shares our aim to create an environment for sustainable growth.

Inspiring morning with #SharedValueAfrica - changing mindsets and changing business as usual #innovation #pioneering

South Africa's first sustainable landscape finance platform, a catalytic coalition to transform the way we think about and mobilise finance for the environment! @WildernessFdnSA @WWFSouthAfrica #TheSustainableLandscapeFinanceCoalition #innovativefinance wildernessfoundation.co.za/blog/posts/sa-…

Come and join us #CapeTown #ClimateStrike #FridaysForFuture Friday midday Zonnebloem 🛑 Stop undermining our future with coal fired power! #RenewableEnergy Now! @WWFSouthAfrica @CTClimateMarch @GretaThunberg @Fridays4future

"We are living in the beginning of a mass #extinction. Our #climate is breaking down."@GretaThunberg "#Nature is a tool we can use to repair our broken climate." @GeorgeMonbiot But 1000x more is spent on fossil fuel subsidies than #NatureBasedSolutions

Daniel Marnewick; KBA Community Chair presenting on the history of KBAs in SA. @DanielMarnewick @BirdLife_SA

$1m a minute: the farming subsidies destroying the world. Just 1% of the$700 bn a year given to farmers is used to benefit the environment. Need to redirect this negative investment.⁦⁩ ⁦@UNDPbiofin⁩ ⁦@pradeepk333⁩ ⁦⁦@ASteiner⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

For the first time in South Africa, the status of our coastal biodiversity has been assessed. 60% of South African coastal ecosystem types are threatened, comprising more than half the extent of the coastal zone, according to the National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA).

Rock the boat! Shake the baobab tree! Do the unusual, disrupt the comfortable zones. Get things moving. Irritate the Establishment! Let them think! That is how you get Movement forward. This country needs Movement! Disrupt, destruct inertia!

Was good to be part of this pioneering meeting on OECMs iucn.org/news/protected… #OECMs @CandiceStevens_

This paper delves into the effect that protected areas have on our wellbeing. How do aichi targets on conservation affect global human health goals‍? 🤸‍♂️🌼 Find out!.. advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/ea…

It’s so embarrassing that we are the plastic age.

Today, all of us at WWF South Africa wear black as we stand in solidarity and take a stand against gender-based violence. #NoToWomenAbuse #EnoughIsEnough #Sesikhatele

South Africa, let’s reclaim our Ubuntu. Let’s roll back the tide of violence against women, children, foreign shop owners and others. This is not us. It’s unSouth African #Ubuntu #EndViolence

I think what makes SA’s brand of GBV particularly terrifying is how it’s everywhere all the time. You’re afraid in your house, in the car or public transport, at the shops, day and night. There’s just absolutely no reprieve.

"If conservationists want business to be part of the solution, we also have to change" - new blog from @mij_matt discusses how conservationists can help scale up the involvement of business #post2020 #Biodiversity2020 @unepwcmc/if-conservationists-want-business-to-be-part-of-the-solution-we-also-have-to-change-1d7039574ad2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@unepwcmc/if-c…

Exciting to be part of this pioneering conservation work with @DanielMarnewick

#IUCN #ESARORCF2019 #Post2020 Targets need to be harmonized; strengthen sector adapted communication; #biodiversityfinancing @CandiceStevens_