Goal 14 – Life Below Water Targets (which will be focused on in this website) and Article Content:
targets from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg14:
14.1 “By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution”
14.2 “By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans”
Principles for Improving Public Health Given Environmental Challenges
According to the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), we must add to how we view public health to account for the link between humans and the natural environment. This linkage […]
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Food Waste Diversion – Lets Share Food
Food Loss and Waste (FLW) is a major problem in Canada. Second Harvest – Canada’s largest food rescue charitable organization – recently released a report entitled “The Avoidable Crisis of […]
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Nutrition and Biodiversity
Unhealthy diets contribute to 11 million deaths worldwide and about 47,000 deaths in Canada each year. Diet related deaths are the most important cause of mortality globally. In addition, the […]
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GDP Versus GPI
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a metric used around the world to measure a country’s well-being but it misses its mark substantially. GDP is a measure of market throughput and […]
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How Seagrass Can Solve Critical Environmental Problems
Did you know that the oceans absorb around 25% of the CO2 released into the atmosphere from human activities and this makes the oceans more acidic? This absorption of CO2 […]
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The Need for a Right to a Healthy Environment
Many Canadians might think they have the right to a healthy environment – which includes fresh air, clean water, and a natural environment that supports people and our planet – […]
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Life Cycle Assessment’s to Compare Products
Suppose you are at a store to buy a product such as a new cellphone and trying to decide between several different options. You care about the environmental and health […]
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Tourism and the Environment
Many of us go on holiday vacations without realizing the negative and positive impacts tourism has on the environment. The Coronavirus has had a significant effect on the tourism industry […]
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The Importance of Placing a Monetary Value on Services Provided By Nature
Did you know that environmental degradation is currently posing serious challenges for human health and security? A recent World Health Organization article states that 12.6 million deaths are occurring each […]
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The Loss of Biodiversity, its Importance and Preservation Actions
The UN’s Biodiversity chief said in 2018 that we have a few years to protect nature’s diversity or else be the first species to document our own extinction. Biodiversity – […]
