| July 2021 |
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| Your guide to the top
environmental stories of the month
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This
month we look at the toxic fallout of the cargo
ship disaster in Sri Lanka, a push to get tourists
to abandon single-use plastics and how climate
change may cause Kenya’s desert lake to burst its
banks. |
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| Inside the shipping disaster that has
gripped Sri Lanka |
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cargo ship carrying oil, acid and billions of
plastic pellets sank off the country’s coast last
month. That would mark the start of one of the
worst environmental catastrophes in Sri Lankan
history. |
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| Tourism is on the rise. So are
concerns about plastic
pollution |
| As travelers once again head out into
the world, environmentalists and tour operators
are hoping to discourage them from using
single-use plastics, which have become a blight
on beaches across the
globe. |
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| Video: Climate-change-proof buildings
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| The world is getting hotter,
stormier, and more prone to floods. But
investing in well-designed buildings can help
lessen the impact of climate change on cities
and towns, say experts.
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| Local communities are key to save
endangered species |
| A new report by UNEP and the World Wide
Fund for Nature (WWF) urges policymakers to engage
local communities when making decisions about
conservation, which would decrease human-wildlife
conflict and improve the prospects of endangered
species. |
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| For world’s largest desert lake, a
future of floods |
| For years, it appeared as though
Kenya’s Lake Turkana was drying up. But in a
quirk of climate change, a new study finds the
lake may regularly overflow its banks,
imperiling millions of people.
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| Transform food systems to end world
hunger |
| Among the knock-on effects of the
COVID-19 pandemic, the UN has noted a dramatic
increase in world hunger. UNEP’s James Lomax
speaks about how to transform food systems by
2030. |
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| A Future
for All: The Need for Human-Wildlife
Coexistence |
| Conflicts between humans and wild
animals, including big cats, bears and
elephants, is driving many species to the
precipice of extinction, finds this UNEP-World
Wildlife Fund report. |
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| Policy
Options to Eliminate Marine
Litter |
| Every year, more than 11 million
tonnes of plastic winds up in the world’s
oceans. This study looks at how policymakers can
stem that flow. |
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| UNEP at the High-level Political
Forum on Sustainable Development
2021 |
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| IUCN World Conservation
Congress |
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| International Day of Clean Air for
blue skies |
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| 76th Session of the UN General
Assembly |
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