World Environment Day 2022

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World Environment Day is the most renowned day for environmental action.

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Chemicals and waste; Health and population; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Global

Operationalizing marketable blue carbon

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One Earth, Volume 5, 20 May 2022
This article proposes a feasible framework to operate a global market of blue carbon, which helps to mitigate climate change.
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Finance; Oceans & Seas; Carbon Market, Global

Trade-related food policies in a more volatile climate and trade environment

Elsevier, Food Policy, Volume 109, May 2022
Providing affordable access to enough healthy and safe food for an ever-more-affluent and growing world population has become more challenging in the face of climate change, rising income inequality a
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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Health and population; Human rights, Global

Heterogeneous wettability and radiative cooling for efficient deliquescent sorbents-based atmospheric water harvesting

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Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 3, 18 May 2022
Efficiently harvesting potable water from atmosphere for arid regions.
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Water, Global

Plant Fibers, their Composites, and Applications - Chapter 1: Introduction to plant fibers and their composites

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Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa, Madhu Puttegowda, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Suchart Siengchin, Togay Ozbakkaloglu, Hao Wang, Chapter 1 - Introduction to plant fibers and their composites, Editor(s): Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa, Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, Suchart Siengchin, Togay Ozbakkaloglu, Hao Wang, In The Textile Institute Book Series, Plant Fibers, their Composites, and Applications, Woodhead Publishing, 2022, Pages 1-24, ISBN 9780128245286, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824528-6.00006-0.
This chapter advances UN SDG goal 12 by ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Sustainable consumption and production; Industry, Global

Long-term exposure to wildfires and cancer incidence in Canada: a population-based observational cohort study

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This is an article on the impact of residential exposure to wildfires and the incidence of various cancers, in the context of SDGs 3, 13, and 15, focusing on the need to develop exposure metrics to better estimate the chronic population health burden attributable to environmental pollutants emitted during wildfires.
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Health and population, North America

Environmental management—International Standard ISO 14001:2015

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ISO14001, an internationally accepted standard that defines the requirements for establishing, implementing and operating an environmental management system (EMS), was updated in 2015 to have a greater focus on leadership, the context in which a company operates, as well as how the company will demonstrate legal compliance. This article is related to SDG #13, Climate Action, and SDG #16, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, as it demonstrates the important influence of a strong rule of law on managing the environmental impact of business.
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Sustainable Energy Transition for Cities - Chapter 1: Cities Evolution

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Miguel Amado, Francesca Poggi, Chapter 1 - Cities Evolution, Editor(s): Miguel Amado, Francesca Poggi, Sustainable Energy Transition for Cities, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 1-17, ISBN 9780128242773, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824277-3.00002-5. 
This chapter advances UN SDG goals 11, 13, and 7 by discussing the Smart City potential for contributing to the reduction of external dependence on fossil fuels and the promotion of renewable energy sources and the mitigation of environmental impacts and effects of climate change.
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Energy; Sustainable cities and human settlements, Global

Floating pollutant image target extraction algorithm based on immune extremum region

Elsevier, Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal, Volume 123, 30 April 2022
With the continuous development of human society, people's over-exploitation of nature leads to frequent environmental problems.
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Technology; Water and sanitation, Global

Plastics and climate change breaking carbon lock-ins through three mitigation pathways

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One Earth, Volume 5, 15 April 2022, Pages 361-376
The plastic sector is hard to decarbonize due to the widespread use of fossil energy as raw materials and the complex value chains rooted across global markets. This Review article takes a synthesis of existing literature and discusses potential and challenges in deep decarbonizing the global plastic sector via the aspects of technology and governance.
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Supply chain; Multi-stakeholder partnerships; Chemicals and waste, Global

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