@EdvardHviding

Prof. Anthropology @UiB @BergenAnthropo1. PI #OceanStates | Coord #N_POC | Dir. #BergenPacificStudies 🇧🇻 🇸🇧 https://xitter.cf/t.co/4BQ1FD8ySe | https://xitter.cf/t.co/8j7djwNau9

 Bergen, Norway
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Joined March 2015
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Dear friends and colleagues, near and far: From today, I'm no longer active on X (once Twitter). Thank you, all, for so many inspiring exchanges and dialogues over the years. Please let us continue to engage on LinkedIn, where you will find me from now on: linkedin.com/in/edvard-hvidi…

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Norwegian professor, internationally connected social anthropologist, and experienced… · Erfaring: Universitetet i Bergen (UiB) · Sted: 5018 · Over 500 forbindelser på LinkedIn. Se Edvard Hvidings...

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Ralph Regenvanu@RRegenvanu11 Feb 2025
I have been appointed again as Minister for Climate Change, Energy, Meteorology, Geohazards, Environment and Disaster Management – at Vanuatu
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Some noteworthy reflections here. devpolicy.org/time-to-decolo…

Time to decolonise international development - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre

A reset is required to address urgent challenges such as frequent economic shocks, debt distress and heightened climate vulnerabilities, says Biman Prasad.

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Event announcement! Book launch: The IPCC and the Politics of Writing Climate Change, by Hannah Hughes 13th March, 14.00-15.30. Free to attend, via Zoom. @MYBISA @hanshare @CKWeatherill @EbonyYoung_ bisa.ac.uk/members/working-g…
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@IUCN30 Dec 2024
Mangroves are lifelines for coastal communities and #biodiversity. The latest assessment from the @redlisteco shows the critical need for conservation efforts. Read more bit.ly/3wHiPS5
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Nic Maclellan@MaclellanNic28 Dec 2024
For years, UK journalist Susie Boniface @fleetstreetfox has been documenting the human costs of Britain’s nuclear testing program in #Australia and #Kiribati. Her new book highlights Britain’s ongoing refusal to commit to compensation and reparations for nuclear survivors.
P&S History@PSHistory27 Dec 2024
#HighlightsOf2024 ✨ Popular with customers this year... 📖 Exposed: The Secret History of Britain's Nuclear Experiments by @fleetstreetfox ☢️ 🔗 buff.ly/3ZrUfQK
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@swiss_un27 Dec 2024
Meet Christian: In charge of Science Diplomacy, he spearheaded 🇨🇭efforts to put the impact of scientific developments on peace & security on the #UNSC agenda & helped issue the first-ever Presidential Statement on the topic, moving the Council closer from reaction to prevention.
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Natural heritage sites are increasingly at risk from climate change. 🌳 Forests, especially in tropical regions, are under severe pressure. Urgent action is needed to protect our irreplaceable heritage. ➡️ ow.ly/GtFS50UqMO6 via @UNDRR
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From tracing the Anthropocene through birdwatching w @Anthrobirder to theopolitical gangs in contemporary Rio de Janeiro; muskox tourism w @karinlille and our season finale with Dame Marilyn Strathern @Cambridge_Uni: listen to all of season 4 of AoA now 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Vanuatu UN@VanuatuUN15 Dec 2024
These are the leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis, the delegation from Pacific Island Nations at The Hague. We’ve taken the world’s biggest problem to the world’s highest court, but our work is just beginning. #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ #ClimateICJ
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GOSDi@GOSDi203013 Dec 2024
Tuesday 17/12 we welcome you to a special event on deep-sea research @UiB. Organised by @ed_nedelciu & @sodronen w/ speakers from across disciplines. The event is hybrid. @FjordJoxo PROGRAMME & REGISTRATION 👉 shorturl.at/7oRSw
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As the semester draws to a close, enjoy this special season 3 finale of Anthropology on Air, featuring Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern from @Cambridge_Uni who visited us in October to deliver the Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2GT…

#19 Journeying anew, with or without knowledge w/ Marilyn Strathern

Anthropology on Air · Episode

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Our voices are rising like the tides to demand justice, for our Small Island States, our People, and for the Future Generations. This is our moment. This is our fight. We demand #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ!
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#COP29 highlighted Small Island Developing States facing climate impacts despite low emissions, like rising seas. Solutions like nature-based defences (mangroves, reefs) in #Kiribati protect people and ecosystems. The success is inspiring similar efforts worldwide!
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@PressACP12 Nov 2024
“We cannot wait for more disasters to prompt more pledges to act.” – Hon. Deputy Prime Minister Biman Prasad at #COP29, calling for a New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance and a dedicated Loss and Damage Fund for OACPS nations to address escalating climate impacts. #OACPS #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction
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Nic Maclellan@MaclellanNic8 Nov 2024
In a 167 – 4 – 6 vote, the United Nations has adopted a resolution on “providing victim assistance and environmental remediation to Member States affected by the use or testing of nuclear weapons”, an initiative by #Kiribati and Kazakhstan under the #TPNW. documents.un.org/doc/undoc/g…
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‘A total waste of time’: why Papua New Guinea pulled out of Cop29 and why climate advocates are worried theguardian.com/world/2024/n…

‘A total waste of time’: why Papua New Guinea pulled out of Cop29 and why climate advocates are...

Country’s foreign minister says UN climate summits have produced ‘no results’ as Pacific nation takes the rare step of withdrawing from upcoming Cop29

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Today is the annual Bergen Anthropogy Day, by us in @BergenAnthropo1 & @cmi_no. A dense programme (w. free lunch) mostly by postdocs & PhDs, through frontlines of ethnography, history, theory, injustice, activism, life, death, money, war, technoscience - & more. Thank you, all!
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RNZ Pacific@RNZPacific26 Sep 2024
Marshall Islands calls for 'precautionary approach' to deep sea mining at UNGA rnz.co.nz/international/paci…

Marshall Islands calls for 'precautionary approach' to deep sea mining at UNGA

The Marshall Islands has told the United Nations General Assembly it opposes any plans to mine the seabed, a stance 180 degrees opposite Nauru's, which has called to "accelerate efforts without...

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@UN25 Sep 2024
“Rising seas will reshape not only coastlines, but economies, politics and security too.” At #UNGA, @antonioguterres calls for #ClimateAction to address the urgent threat posed by sea-level rise. un.org/sg/en/content/sg/stat…
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