5 December 2018 News Release Katowice, Poland
Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. The latest estimates from leading experts also indicate that...
"Societies will never achieve the SDGs without the full participation of everyone, including people with disabilities. We cannot afford to ignore or marginalize the contributions of 1.5 billion people." Remarks by H.E. Antonio Guterres, United Nation...
Geneva, Switzerland, 27 November 2018
The quality of housing has major implications for people's health. Poor housing is associated with a wide range of health conditions such as respiratory diseases including asthma, cardiovascular diseases, inju...
New York, Nov 26 - A new international effort to combat the negative environmental impacts of the transfer of aquatic species through ships has been launched this week. The GloFouling Partnerships project - a collaboration between the Global Environm...
DURHAM, N.C. - A new Duke University-led study has found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers in 16 Indian states.
The main source of the uranium contamination is natural, but human factors such as groundwater-table decline ...
