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An Increasingly Unhealthy Planet Affects Everyone’s Health

2021
E Bernhardt, E Rossi, M Gessner, R Early, B Bradley, J Dukes, J Lawler, J Olden, D Blumenthal, H Beddington, J Crute, L Haddad, D Lawrence, J Muir, J Gupta, F Hurley, T Grobicki, P Stoett, E Baker, Et, J Scholtens, J Perch, L Dankelman, I Seager, J Snder, F, B Halpern, S Walbridge, K Selkoe, C Kappel, F Micheli, C, R Hoesly, S Smith, L Feng, Z Klimont, G Janssens-Maenhout, T Pitkanen, K Hubacek, G Baiocchi, K Feng, R Muoz Castillo, L Sun, J Xue, J Jambeck, R Geyer, T Siegler, M Perryman, A Andrady, R Lewison, L Crowder, B Wallace, J Moore, T Cox, R Zydelis, E Van Sebille, C Wilcox, L Lebreton, N Maximenko, B Hardesty, J Van Franeker, R Watson, W Cheung, J Anticamara, R Sumaila, D Zeller, D Pauly, N Zerbini Alexandre, Adams Grant, John Best, Clapham Phillip, J, Jackson Jennifer, A, E, P, Q Zhang, X Jiang, D Tong, S Davis, H Zhao, G Geng

Summary

This UN Environment Programme report identifies food, energy, and waste systems as the key drivers of global environmental degradation, calling for transformative policy change. Plastic pollution and its fragmentation into microplastics is specifically highlighted as a product of unsustainable production and waste systems.

Study Type Environmental

GEO-6 identifies three key socioeconomic systems with far-reaching environmental impacts: the food, energy and waste systems (well established). These systems are closely interlinked. The processes of producing, distributing and using both food and energy, and materials in general, generates significant waste. These processes and the waste they generate pollute the environment. They also impact biodiversity and ecosystems. Transformative change in these systems will require policy coherence and synergies implicitly addressing issues related to air and freshwater quality, land and soil degradation, oceans and coast integrity, and biodiversity loss. ﹛Chapter 17, ExecSum, 17.3.2, 17.4.3, 17.5.1﹜

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