Air pollution and climate change are humanity’s biggest environmental challenges, both current and in the future. Mitigating emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) offers opportunities to build...
Despite robust evidence documenting the tragic and widespread consequences of lead exposure, many environmental and health authorities around the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries...
Artisanal gold mining occurs informally and therefore relies on low technologies and extraction methods lacking pollution controls. As a result, despite the fact that artisanal gold mining produces only...
Approximately 4.1 million people live in the three states of the Yucatán Peninsula: Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche. Some 30 municipalities are in a coastal territory of almost 2,000 linear kilometers...
Air pollution is a significant problem in cities and urban centers in the Republic of North Macedonia. This report is one in a series of three reports on air quality management (AQM) in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) experience high ambient concentrations of health-damaging fine particulate air pollution in Europe. This report is one in a series of three reports on air quality...
Many cities in Kosovo suffer from poor air quality, with ambient concentrations of particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less (PM2.5) significantly exceeding the national and European...
This note aims to provide an overview and guidance on the use of tools to assess the environmental and health effects of changes in the levels of fine particulate matter caused by higher consumption of...
Approximately 4.1 million people live in the three coastal states of the Yucatán Peninsula: Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche. With poverty far from eliminated, and economic development opportunities...
Sindh's environmental and climate change problems call for urgent responses. A number of feasible interventions could be carried out to address the categories of environmental degradation that have the...
Comparative analysis of the Environmental Impact Assessment Legislation in 23 countries of Latin America.
Pakistan's urban air pollution is among the most severe in the world and it engenders significant damages to human health and the economy. Air pollution, inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene...
Integration of environmental considerations into development planning has been carried out through project level environmental impact assessments (EIA), typically after many critical policy level decisions...
This paper reviews the Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) that were prepared to incorporate environmental considerations in Water and Sanitation Sector (WSS) reforms in Argentina and Colombia.1...