~5.3 Billion Mobile Phones will Become Waste in 2022
WEEE Forum, Brussels 2022 International E-waste Day slogan: ‘Recycle it all, no matter how small!’ Despite world-leading e-waste management, ~30%
Decisions based on narrow set of nature’s market values underpin biodiversity crisis
IPBES, Bonn, Germany More than 50 methods and approaches exist to make visible the diverse values of nature The way
50,000 wild species meet needs of billions worldwide; experts offer options to ensure sustainable use
IPBES, Bonn 1 in 5 people rely on wild species for income & food; >10,000 wild species harvested for human
Crushed, zapped, boiled, baked, more: Nature used 57 recipes to make Earth’s 10,500+ ‘mineral kinds’
Carnegie Science, Earth & Planets Laboratory, Washington DC Water helped 80+% of mineral species to form Biology had a direct
The abundance of diverse “unconventional water sources”
UNU Institute for Water, Environment & Health, Hamilton, Canada Tapping a fraction can help meet fast-growing global freshwater needs UN
World “at a crossroads” in management of droughts, up 29% in a generation
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and
CEC Secretariat recommends factual record on vaquita porpoise
Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal The Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has recommended developing a factual record to explore
Mould, pesticides, toxic chemicals reported in survey of Canadian child care professionals
CDN Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment / Canadian Child Care Federation Nearly half of some 2,000 professionals in child
Chronic land degradation: UN report offers stark warnings, remedies
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn Up to 40 % of the planet’s land is degraded, directly affects
Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal
KU LEUVEN / EUROMETAUX Independent KU Leuven university study, commissioned by EU industry, echoes IEA warning of severe global competition
UN: 500 million live in 19 African nations deemed water insecure
United Nation University Institute for Water, Environment & Health 1st assessment of water security in Africa is based on 10
50% more wildfires foreseen by 2100; Governments are not prepared: UN
UN Environment Programme Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, faces rising wildfire risk; Wildfires and climate change are “mutually
Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, “GLUBS,” will help monitor marine life
The Rockefeller University Programme for the Human Environment, International Quiet Ocean Experiment By assembling and expanding first-ever global audio collection
97% of Latin America’s e-waste is mismanaged; Includes annual $1.7B in recoverable materials
UNIDO and UN University, Bonn 1st Latin American e-waste report covers 13 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El
Scientists urge quick, deep, sweeping changes to halt, reverse dangerous biodiversity loss
GEO BON / bioDISCOVERY Proposed target of protecting 30% of land and seas by 2030 is important but will leave
In the news, 2021: Our clients’ most noted science news releases of the year
Terry Collins & Assoc., Toronto Of the 18 science news releases produced in 2021, 16 were environment-themed: food waste, e-waste,
E-waste in former Soviet countries jumps ~50% in a decade; just 3.2% collected, treated
UN University / UNITAR, Bonn Electronic waste generated in the Commonwealth of Independent States + Georgia rose by 50% between
A Clean Ocean by 2030: United Nations Panel of Experts Charts the Most Direct Course
Clean Ocean Int’l Expert Group, New York Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors
International E-Waste Day: 57.4M tonnes expected in 2021 will outweigh China’s Great Wall
UN University / WEEE Forum, Brussels The e-waste result of an online streaming explosion: an emerging concern / information gap
New UN Mapping Tool Reveals Global Floods Since 1985 to Aid Disaster Planning
United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada See also: “Popular Science Magazine: UN’s World Flood Mapping