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Glory Dolphin Hammes said: “kills more people than any other pollutant that is out there,”
straitstimesSG Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 7:52:00 AM Central European Standard Time
James Titcombe says: “You’d think that a system would wrap their arms around patients and families who have lost people and do everything possible to help them heal and recover,” “Sadly what often happens is instead they go through this battle, sometimes for years on end, which compounds their harm considerably. In some cases the harm caused for those families following a tragic event is equal in many ways to the harm of what happened in the first place. It has such a devastating impact on people’s lives”
guardian Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 7:36:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Frank Hammes said: “A clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a universal human right. In many parts of the world the lack of air quality data delays decisive action and perpetuates unnecessary human suffering,”
kenyamoja Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 6:00:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Aidan Farrow said: “In 2023 air pollution remained a global health catastrophe, IQAir’s global data set provides an important reminder of the resulting injustices and the need to implement the many solutions that exist to this problem,”
kenyamoja Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 6:00:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Leila Benali said: “Also, the resolution on air pollution which focuses on enhancing national air quality monitoring, capacity building, coordinating efforts to develop and implement air quality action plans and policies is equally important,”
kenyamoja Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 6:00:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Inger Andersen said: “You delivered resolutions that will help Unep and Member States do more on chemicals and waste and sand and dust storms. The President has gaveled resolutions that address desertification, land restoration and more. We also have a ministerial declaration that affirms the international community’s strong intent to slow climate change, restore nature and land and create a pollution-free world,”
kenyamoja Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 6:00:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Achim Steiner insists: “20 years during which countries have converged in terms of income, life expectancy and education,”
thecostaricanews Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 5:07:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Achim Steiner warns: “We live in a richer world than at any other time in the history of humanity, at least in financial terms (…) But there are more hungry people, more poor people than ten years ago. There are more and more wars around the world, with tens of millions of refugees,”
thecostaricanews Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 5:07:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Achim Steiner says: “we are turning our partners, who we need, into enemies,”
thecostaricanews Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 5:07:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Frank Hammes states: "A clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a universal human right. In many parts of the world the lack of air quality data delays decisive action and perpetuates unnecessary human suffering. Air quality data saves lives. Where air quality is reported, action is taken, and air quality improves,"
streetinsider Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 5:03:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Aidan Farrow states: "IQAir's annual report illustrates the international nature and inequitable consequences of the enduring air pollution crisis. Local, national, and international effort is urgently needed to monitor air quality in under-resourced places, manage the causes of transboundary haze, and cut our reliance on combustion as an energy source,"
streetinsider Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 5:03:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Pedro Conceicao said: "What we're seeing is the opposite of that,"
menafn Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 4:02:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Achim Steiner said: "the combination of a pandemic and economic and fiscal crisis but also conflict... have entrapped those countries in a situation where recovery is not at all on the agenda"
menafn Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 4:02:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Achim Steiner said: "We are sitting on top of a world that is wealthier than ever in human history, at least in financial terms," "And yet we have more hungry, more poor people than we did 10 years ago,"
menafn Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 4:02:00 AM Central European Standard Time
Achim Steiner said: "At a moment in time where we need to work together... we're actually undermining the very fabric of our international capacity to cooperate," "We are spending inordinate amounts on defense budgets,"
menafn Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 4:02:00 AM Central European Standard Time
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