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Climate change and its impact on health – a crisis at the crossroads

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One of the biggest health hazards threatening the global population today and thereby, overall wellbeing and future sustainability is, climate change. The profound effects of climate change are increasingly evident in the deteriorating air quality, rising temperatures leading to more frequent heat-related incidents, noise pollution, extreme weather events, and unprecedented rise in sea levels. Some […]

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Unlocking urban sustainability: The rise of Nature-based Solutions

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About 57% of the world’s population, ~4.46 billion people, currently live in cities. This number is expected to increase to 6.7 billion, or more than two-thirds of the global population, by 2050. This rapid urbanization trend is expected to result in increased climate change, nature loss, and pollution. Cities, which consume 75% of natural resources

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Are we dying, or are we dying?

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According to World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a climate related disaster has occurred every day on average in the last 50 years. These disasters are linked to a loss of USD 202 million and killing of 115 people, per day. The frequent and increasing events of flood, drought, wildfires, cyclones, disease outbreaks, food and water security has made it evident that climate change is happening at an accelerated rate than anticipated. The world Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that between 2030 and 2050, an additional 250,000 deaths per year will occur due to heat stress, malnutrition, malaria and diarrhoea. The IPCC report by UN clearly states that a minimum of 3.3 billion people’s daily lives are extremely vulnerable to the changing climate and they are presumed to be 15 times more likely to die from human induced climate change.

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Pocket Parks: Small Scale Initiative to Achieve Larger Goal of Urban Sustainability

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The country of Greece was recently in the news for all the right reasons of introducing pocket parks in its capital city, Athens. These ecological parks are created in the densely populated localities of Kypseli, Kolonos and Pagrati to subsequently address environmental issues such as urban heat island effect and pollution, while also attempting to bring uniformity in the distribution of green space across the city.

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Is the Global South Sitting On A Time Bomb Of Global Waste Trade?

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Today, most developing/underdeveloped countries are coping with the increasing challenges in wastes management as a result of the trend in industrialization and urbanization leading to global waste trade. For many years now, it has been observed that waste management methods are different in developed countries from that in developing nations. According to the World Bank Group,

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