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Air pollution is “stunting children’s brains” and affecting their health in more ways than was previously suspected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday 29 October 2018.
In a call for concrete policy pledges from governments across the world to tackle the problem, the UN health agency reports that more than nine in 10 youngsters breathe air that is so polluted, “it puts their health and development at serious risk”.
Bali, 29 October 2018 (UN Environment)*– A Global Commitment to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at the source has been signed by 250 organisations including many of the world’s largest packaging producers, brands, retailers and recyclers, as well as governments and NGOs.
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Photo from UN Environment.
The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with UN Environment, and will be officially unveiled at the Our Ocean Conference in Bali today [29 October 2018].
The electoral authority announced the results at 7:00 p.m. local time after the closing of the last polling stations.
Supporters of Fernando Haddad, presidential candidate of Brazil’s leftist Workers Party (PT), react during a runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. | Photo: Reuters | Photo from teleSUR.
“You used to need a jacket around here,” he says, squinting in the morning sun next to a sparkling shoreline, now empty apart from crabs scuttling to and from the froth. There used to be enough fresh water for all and so much seafood that planes would come from the capital to fill up with lobster, crab, fish and langoustine.
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