Sentences with phrase «urban pollution challenges»
2:57 p.m. Updated On Sunday I posted a 140 - character Twitter item containing four links that sketch humanity's urban pollution challenges and opportunities over the last 60 years.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately.
It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.
It's a global compact signed on a voluntary basis by Local and Regional Authorities willing to adapt their water infrastructure and services to the emerging challenges they are increasingly facing such as climate change, rapid urban growth, depletion and pollution of water resources or ageing infrastructure.
The Sustainable Innovation Expo showcased the latest developments in environmental problem - solving, and the Nexus Dialogue on pollution, cities and health gave participants the chance to discuss cross-cutting solutions to critical urban challenges.