Environment & Natural Resources - USAFacts
2023年2月10日 · Find statistics and data trends about the environment, including data on the weather that helps interpret climate trends, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity, and conservation-related metrics such as land protections and species listed on the threatened and endangered species list. We visualize, explain and provide objective context using …
Why having a clean and healthy environment is a human right
2021年11月30日 · Realization of the right to a clean and hazardous free environment requires commitment to social dialogue by tripartite partners in reconciling economic and social interests. Although the laws generally make it mandatory for businesses to remedy environmental impacts caused by their economic activities, weak government regulatory mechanism ...
2024 Current State of the Union: US Environment - USAFacts
The federal government spent $35.1 billion on the environment and natural resources in FY 2023. This accounted for about 0.6% of the 2023 federal budget, and included conservation and land management, pollution control, and water maintenance.
Global sustainable resource consumption needed urgently, UN …
2024年3月4日 · Global natural resource consumption is predicted to increase by 60% by 2060, compared with 2020 levels, according to the United Nations Environment Programme's Global Resources Outlook, a report by the UN's International Resource Panel. That’s after material use grew more than three times over the past 50 years, it said.
Technology can help us save the planet. But more than anything, …
2018年8月23日 · Every day new evidence of our unsustainable impact on the environment is emerging. The last five years have been the warmest five-year period on record, the Arctic warmed much faster than predicted and the UN estimates that in the last 10 years, climate-related disasters have caused $1.4 trillion worth of damage worldwide.
2022 US Environment & Climate Facts | State of the Earth
State and local governments spent $67.7 billion on the environment and natural resources in 2019. Combining bills that became public law, executive orders and presidential memoranda, and significant rulemaking by executive agencies, there were 81 federal actions on land, energy, and the environment in 2021.
8 business leaders championing a nature-positive economy
2021年9月23日 · At SUEZ, we aim to step up our role in protecting the environment and restoring our natural assets by taking action for the protection and rehabilitation of terrestrial, aquatic and marine biodiversity. To do this, the Group is accelerating its development of “100% sustainable” solutions characterised by their positive impact on the ...
10 facts about the US environment
2022年4月28日 · The federal government spent $40.9 billion in 2020, or 0.6% of all federal expenditures, on the environment and natural resources (not including spending on renewable energy). Most was spent on the Forest Service ($7 billion), transfers to state and local governments ($6.7 billion), and NOAA ($6.1 billion).
5 reasons why biodiversity matters - The World Economic Forum
2020年5月22日 · Although some fear environmental regulation and the safeguarding of nature could threaten businesses, the “restoration economy” – the restoration of natural landscapes –provides more jobs in the United States than most of the extractives sector, with the potential to create even more.
Humans have caused this environmental crisis. It’s time to change …
2019年9月9日 · A recent paper published in the journal of Nature Sustainability, emphasizes the need to embrace concepts of global, human-driven, environmental risks and interactions that move across very large scales of space and time.