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Environmental threats are biggest challenge to human rights – UN

Switzerland Geneva UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet

Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The UN rights chief said the “triple planetary crises” of climate change, pollution and nature loss represented the biggest threat to human rights globally at the opening on Monday of a month-long session set to prioritise environmental issues.  “As these environmental threats intensify, they will constitute the single greatest challenge to human rights […]

Concern over nature loss surging in developing nations, online trends show

India Mumbai green space protest

Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Awareness of nature loss and calls to address it are growing in developing nations, not just richer parts of the world, researchers said on Tuesday, urging governments and businesses to speed up efforts to make economies more eco-friendly. Research by the Economist Intelligence Unit analysed the popularity of nature loss and […]