Africa: Landmark UNEP Report Lighting the Path to a Sustainable Future to Be Released in January

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COVID-19 has exposed how the degradation of ecosystems is not only undermining Earth's life-supporting systems, including the regulation of disease but also leaving our societies and economies tremendously vulnerable to sudden shocks.

Even before the pandemic, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) had commissioned the broadest synthesis yet of scientific insights into the huge environmental challenges facing humanity so that policymakers can see clearly what must be done. More than 40 authors and advisors from around the world are working on the report, which will be released in early 2021.

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