How is air quality measured?
Air quality across the globe continues to deteriorate due to increasing emissions, threatening human health and contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.
Air quality across the globe continues to deteriorate due to increasing emissions, threatening human health and contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.
Biotechnology has huge potential to help overcome some of our leading global problems, from disease-resistant crops to innovative medical treatments.
But, like many new technologies, it is not without potential risks.
Living Modified Organisms (LMOs – also known as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs) can potentially negatively impact human health and the environment.
In 1987, the world came together to sign the Montreal Protocol, a global agreement to protect the Earth’s ozone layer. The accord was designed to phase out a host of chemicals, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), that were creating a continent-sized hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica.
With the 2022 Emissions Gap Report due to be released in October this year ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, the focus is on how fast countries can reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.
99 per cent of our world is exposed to polluted air causing an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year.
Air pollution is an environmental risk to human health. It has detrimental impacts on climate, biodiversity and ecosystems.In fact, environmental health is linked to human health. Improving our air quality will bring health, development and environmental benefits.
Nairobi, 7 September 2022 – Responding to the recent UN resolution on the right to a healthy environment, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with Swiss technology company IQAir, has made signific
On the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies 2022, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, calls for urgent action on regulation, monitoring and regional cooperation to combat air pollution:
Air pollution has been called the most-pressing environmental health crisis of our time, responsible for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year. Approximately nine in 10 people around the world breathe unclean air, which increases the risk of asthma, heart disease and lung cancer.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres outlines steps needed to tackle air pollution and ensure a healthy, sustainable planet for all ahead of the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies on 7 September.
The world is swimming in plastic.