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.

Nairobi resident Cyprine Odada was so tired of gridlock that in 2015 she decided to try cycling to work.

The science is clear that we must end plastic pollution.

Minerals like lithium and cobalt are key components in the batteries that could support the world’s transition away from fossil fuels.

The planet’s waste challenge is part and parcel of what we at UNEP call the triple planetary crisis – the crisis of climate change, the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss and the crisis of pollution and waste.

When it comes to safeguarding the natural world, we have heard many commitments.

Biotechnology has huge potential to help overcome some of our leading global problems, from disease-resistant crops to innovative medical treatments.

And we are damaging mountain ecosystems through the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution and waste.

All stakeholders – from companies to governments and investors – must urgently work to enhance the safety of tailings storage facilities across the globe.

Asia-Pacific is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of climate change, especially for women and marginalized groups who are disproportionately impacted by its effects.