UNiikki is the Turku UN Association’s blog, which publishes articles on the activities of the association, current UN issues, and other social topics.
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Why low-threshold events?
Why is this important to me? When I moved to Turku, I noticed I was missing something I couldn’t quite put into words at first. I started to feel a longing for community. I come from a culture where togetherness and being part of a community are important. Even though I was born and raised…
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Biodiversity and “ecosystem services”
Global biodiversity loss is increasingly identified as at least as serious an environmental threat as climate change. The two are also intertwined, but by nature there are two different types of phenomena, because, unlike the atmosphere, the diversity of the biosphere is not evenly distributed on Earth but, for example, tropical rainforests make up a…