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This new analysis What's on the Table? Mitigating Agricultural Emissions While Achieving Food Security shows that reducing emissions through changes in farming practices alone will not be enough to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but changing our diets and reducing food waste could make significant additional reductions, which calls for a much more holistic approach.

The report Impacts of Pollution on Our Health and the Planet: The Case of Coal Power Plants focuses on the health and economic impacts of air pollution from the production of electricity from fossil fuels, particularly coal.

The paper Tackling Pollution is Essential for Meeting SDG Poverty Objectives identifies the links between poverty and the risks from different types of pollution, with examples from around the world, and examines how these risks pose a threat to the achievement of the SDGs.

Severe pollution incidents have provided some of the most visually arresting images of recent armed conflicts. Oil fires and spills, bomb-damaged and looted industrial facilities, abandoned military material and munitions, rubble and demolition waste – all are associated with contemporary conflicts, and all can threaten ecosystems and human health. But these obvious, and often serious, sources of pollution rarely tell the whole story. The relationship between armed conflict and pollution – or what we view as the toxic remnants of war – can be complex, and its legacy can last for decades after conflicts end. While it is a problem that has received increasing attention in recent years, too little is currently done to minimize the generation of pollutants in conflict and military activities, and to examine and address their impact on human health and the environment.

Traditional knowledge has been used by generations of indigenous peoples and local communities to monitor their communities’ wellbeing and the state of their territories and natural resources.