Climate & Nature

Farming and industry are degrading the natural systems life depends on: collapsing ecosystems and climate risks are increasing in visible impact, especially on the least prepared countries.

Biodiversity loss

Why are land ecosystems collapsing worldwide?

Solution progress:

75%of the world's food crops depend at least partly on pollinators now in decline

Climate vulnerability

Why does climate change fall hardest on the countries with the least capacity to respond?

Solution progress:

15×higher mortality from floods, droughts and storms in the most vulnerable regions than the least vulnerable, 2010-2020

Why is there now plastic in the rain, the deep sea, and human cells?

Solution progress:

450years a plastic bottle takes to break apart, and even then it never disappears

Nitrogen pollution

Why is the fertiliser that feeds half the world also poisoning its water and air?

Solution progress:

500+ocean dead zones where fertiliser runoff has stripped the water of the oxygen life needs