{"id":3107,"date":"2019-06-17T08:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T08:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"as-voices-for-the-planet-grow-louder-we-must-get-the-job-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/17\/as-voices-for-the-planet-grow-louder-we-must-get-the-job-done\/","title":{"rendered":"As Voices For The Planet Grow Louder, We Must Get The Job Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollution of air, land and water is poisoning the planet,\nfrom the deepest ocean trench to the highest mountain peak. The latest climate\nalarm, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told us how little\ntime we have to ward off the worst impacts of climate change. Scientists from\nmany different bodies are warning that human activity is devastating biodiversity\n\u2013 threatening livelihoods, food security and society as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have serious work to do. We need to ensure a healthy\nenvironment for all, which is essential to development, peace, stability and\nthe eradication of poverty. We need to change our environmental footprint: how\nwe use and discard, how we plan and build, how we power our societies, how we\nmeasure growth, and how we share the planet with other species\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/voices-planet-grow-louder-we-must-get-job-done\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment Pollution of air, land and water is poisoning the planet, from the deepest ocean trench to the highest mountain peak. The latest climate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}