Pollution touches all parts of our planet, affecting our health through the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. It is estimated that approximately 9 million premature deaths are directly caused by pollution in a year, vastly more than all wars and violence combined. For this reason, the third United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-3) - the world's highest decision-making body on the environment - has pollution at its core, and aims to ensure progress is made towards a pollution-free planet.
This map shows Proportion of population using improved sanitation facilities in 2015 as a total and in Urban and Rural areas.
The map shows country air quality laws and regulations with respect to ambient air quality standard and air quality laws and regulations
The map shows ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 1600 cities in 91 countries. This 2014 update of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) consists mainly of urban air quality data – annual mean concentration of fine particulate matter of less than 10 microns of diameter (PM10) [µg/m3], for the years 2008-2013.
The map shows ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 1600 cities in 91 countries. This 2014 update of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) consists mainly of urban air quality data – annual mean concentration of fine particulate matter of less than 2.5 microns of diameter (PM2.5) [µg/m3], for the years 2008-2013.
This map shows field locations where count density of plastic debris in the oceans were measured between 2007-2013. This included 1571 stations from 680 net tows and 891 visual survey transects for the plastic size class (1.01 - 4.75 mm). The authors* estimate plastic pollution in the world’s oceans to be more than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tons afloat at sea.