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According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), more than 80% of the global population are motivated by a faith or spirituality. Faced with the triple planetary crises of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change, what role can faith communities play in saving the planet?

Young people in Africa have called on developed countries to double the funding for climate change adaptation in Africa.

International funding to shield people from heatwaves, floods and droughts only 5-10% of what is needed, report finds

Grandparents used cotton/jute bags & glass/steel vessels/bottles before plastic age. 1907 saw the dawn of plastic age with Bakelite. Today, almost everything is made of plastic. But plastic pollution is a global problem, with 19-23 million tonnes of waste entering aquatic ecosystems yearly. We must reuse plastic bottles/bags & use…

UN warns the scale of dredging has a devastating effect on biodiversity and coastal communities.

UN-developed Marine Sand Watch estimates 6bn tonnes dug up a year, well beyond rate at which it is replenished

The “deadliest US wildfires in over a century” have killed more than 100 people in Hawaii and have destroyed more than 2,000 buildings, causing damage estimated at $5.5 billion.  

"The issue is not about running out of water, it's about having water in the right place," Lis Mullin Bernhardt, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), told Live Science.

Report says nearly 200 cases filed around the world in past 12 months challenging governments and firms