A group of nations is looking at how they can use regulations for hazardous chemicals and wastes to tackle pollution, global warming and species losses.
A group of nations is exploring ways of using global regulations for hazardous chemicals and wastes to confront what it calls a "triple planetary crisis" of dangerous pollution, global warming and species losses.
Linkages between the issues dominated a meeting of more than 100 ministers and other government officials and delegates to three treaties — the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions — held in the Swedish capital on Wednesday.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
Global cooperation on health, defense, climate change and more would be at risk under a second Trump presidency.
A U.N.-led group says the world won't be able to get to net-zero emissions without first cleaning up the mining business.
