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How do you make the people of the world healthier? For the longest time, the answer was to treat the myriad ailments that plague the human race.
But in recent years, experts have come to have a more expansive view of health. Many are finally acknowledging that human health is inextricably linked to the health of animals, both wild and domestic, and the health of the planet.
Nairobi, 7 September 2024 – The world marked the fifth annual International Day of Clean Air for blue skies today with calls for investment in clean air solutions now, as air pollution causes increasing public health, environmental, and economic harms.
07 September, Abidjan - African Environment Ministers meeting in Abidjan have called for the establishment of a legally binding protocol on drought management under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), with a special focus on Africa.
Air pollution costs the global economy a staggering US$8.1 trillion every year, or 6.1 per cent of the world's gross domestic product.
For billions of people across the developing world, particularly children and women, mealtime starts by firing up a kerosene stove, lighting a charcoal grill or setting some logs ablaze.
CCAC launches an Air Quality Management Exchange Platform (AQMx) following UNEA-6 resolution to increase regional cooperation and action on improving air quality globally.
The platform will guide city and national air quality managers on how to meet World Health Organization
Some 40 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rely on the Congo Basin – home to the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest – for food, health, livelihoods and ecosystem services.
For the people of East and Southeast Asia air pollution has become an all too familiar sight.
When a group of Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine River last month, it marked a watershed moment for the iconic French waterway.
Later this year, negotiators will gather in the Republic of Korea for a fifth round of discussions aimed at developing a legally binding international agreement to end plastic pollution.
In the small coastal town of Guapi, Colombia, Mary Luz Ante Orobio is meeting with a group she calls “the unstoppable women.”
They are gathered around a wooden chest filled with loose cash, a ledger and a calculator. Orobio flips through the ledger, eyes poring over tidy notes outlining a series of financial investments. She jots down some numbers before distributing cash among the group.
When truck driver Salim Awadh travelled to Mombasa, Kenya, in 2021 for a course on fuel-efficient driving, he had been hauling freight across East Africa for nearly two decades.
Still, the course would prove to be a revelation for the 53-year-old, who often travels along the Northern Corridor, a congested series of highways spanning six countries.
Geneva, 22 June 2024 – Governments gathered in Geneva have advanced in the process to establish a science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution prevention, agreeing to continue negotiations to further develop the proposal for this body, akin to the IPCC on climate change and the IPBES on biodiversity.
At the United Nations Environment Assembly in 2022, 190 Member States agreed to establish a new body that would provide policymakers with robust, independent information on chemicals, waste and pollution. The new science-policy panel – expecte
Nairobi, 18 June 2024 – The environmental impacts of the war in Gaza are unprecedented, according to a preliminary assessment published today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), exposing the community to rapidly growing soil, water and air pollution and risks of irreversible damage
Geneva, 13 June 2024 - Amid mounting concern about the health and environmental impacts of air pollution, a new report from the World Meteorological Organization points out the potential for low-cost sensor systems to assess levels of air pollution, identify sources and to support air quality strategies to reduce them.
Albania, Burkina Faso, India, Montenegro and Uganda have joined forces to halt mercury pollution from the healthcare sector
Mercury harms human health and the environment
$134-million initiative will support a holistic approach to improve the management of mercury waste and the adoption of alternatives
Geneva, 14 May 2024 – The Governments of Albania, Burkina Faso, India, Monten
Ottawa, 23 April 2024 – The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-4), opened today in Canada’s capital, Ottawa.
The world has a once-in-a-generation chance to profoundly change humanity’s relationship with plastic. That is the message from officials ahead of “pivotal” talks next week on a legally binding global instrument to end plastic pollution.
Humanity generates between 2.1 billion and 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste a year.
Spanish officials declare a state of emergency due to drought. Unprecedented water shortages hammer Mexico City. Severely parched Zambia warns of a national disaster.
These are just some of the water-related headlines from the past few weeks.
When it comes to climate change, carbon dioxide is the gas that grabs most of the headlines. But there is another gas that is contributing to the superheating of the planet: methane.
Ecuador, India, Kenya, Laos, Philippines, Uruguay, and Vietnam have joined forces to reduce the environmental impact of the agricultural sector
Highly hazardous pesticides and plastic waste from agriculture release toxic persistent organic pollutants into the environment, also harming human health
$379 million initiative will realign financial incentives to prevent the use of harmful inputs in food production
In a video address at the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on countries to come together to address the planet’s most-pressing environmental challenges.
“You have shown before that you can unite and deliver,” he told delegates. “I urge you to do so again – and go further.“
Clean Air Flagship launched to save lives and slow climate change by boosting cooperation and reducing pollutant emissions
UNEP and CCAC’s Used Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs) and the Environment report provides roadmap to reducing sector’s emissions through standardizing, monitoring, and greening str
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