Improving air quality ‘key’ to confronting global environmental crises

With environmental events becoming increasingly interconnected, a new global report on air pollution published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Thursday underscores that improved air quality is “key to tackling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste”. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2021/09/1099042
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The triple planetary crisis: Global Foresight Report reveals global shifts

The triple planetary crisis: Global Foresight Report reveals global shifts

15 Jul 2024

Eight critical global shifts are accelerating a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, pollution and waste, according to the new Global Foresight Report produced by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Science Council (ISC) released on Monday. 

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SDGs will address ‘three planetary crises’ harming life on Earth 

27 Apr 2021

The “three planetary crises” of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution are reinforcing each other and driving further damage to the environment and to our health, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday. 

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World unites at UN Environment Assembly to combat ‘triple planetary crisis’

World unites at UN Environment Assembly to combat ‘triple planetary crisis’

26 Feb 2024

The latest meeting of the “world’s parliament on the environment” opened in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday with a clear call for stronger global action to address the “triple planetary crisis” of  climate change, nature loss and pollution.