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1. See: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Planetary Boundaries – defining a safe operating space for humanity,
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/infodesk/planetary-boundaries.
2. United Nations Climate Change blog, What is the Triple Planetary Crisis?, 13 April 2022, https://unfccc.int/news/what-is-
the-triple-planetary-crisis.
3. Fuller, Richard, Philip J Landrigan, Kalpana Balakrishnan, et al., “Pollution and health: a progress update”, The Lancet
Planet Health, vol. 6, 2022, pp. e535-e547, https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanplh/ PIIS2542-5196(22)00090-0.
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4. Ibid.
5. The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, October 22, 2017, https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/
pollutionand-health.
6. See: World Health Organization (WHO), Air quality, energy and health, https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-
change-and-health/air-quality-energy-and-health/health-impacts.
7. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), The Economic Consequences of Outdoor
Air Pollution, 2016, https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/the-economic-consequences-of-outdoor-air-
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8. American Lung Association, Disparities in the Impact of Air Pollution, 2 November 2023, https://www.lung.org/clean-air/
outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities.
9. The University of Chicago, Air Quality Life Index, 2022, https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/the-index/.
10. For details on SLCPs, see: Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Short-lived Climate pollutants, https://www.ccacoalition.org/
content/short-lived-climate-pollutants.
11. Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Scientific Advisory Panel 2013 Annual Science Update, https://www.ccacoalition.org/
sites/default/files/resources//SAP%202013%20Annual%20Science%20Update%20%28Full%29_Oct23.pdf.
12. World Health Organization (WHO), Ambient (outdoor) air pollution, Fact Sheet, 24 October 2024, https://www.who.int/
news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(outdoor)-air-quality-and-health.
13. American Lung Association, Health impact of air pollution, 2024, https://www.lung.org/research/sota/health-risks.
14. For more on black carbon, see: Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Black Carbon, https://www.ccacoalition.org/short-lived-
climate-pollutants/black-carbon.
15. Ibid.
16. Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, 2011, https://www.
ccacoalition.org/resources/integrated-assessment-black-carbon-and-tropospheric-ozone.
17. Shindell, Drew, Johan C. I. Kuylenstierna, Elisabetta Vignati, et al., “Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change
and Improving Human Health and Food Security”, Science, vol. 335, no. 6065, 13 January 2012, pp. 183-189, https://
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18. For more details on methane, see: Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Methane, https://www.ccacoalition.org/short-lived-
climate-pollutants/methane.
19. Ibid.
20. European Climate and Health Observatory, Ground-level ozone, 3 July 2024, https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/
observatory/evidence/health-effects/ground-level-ozone.
21. UN Environment Programme (UNEP), New global methane pledge aims to tackle climate change, 22 September 2021,
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/new-global-methane-pledge-aims-tackle-climate-change .
22. See: Global Methane Pledge, https://www.globalmethanepledge.org/.
23. Ibid.
24. National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), “Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and
Home, 10 April 2024, https://www.nrdc.org/stories/forever-chemicals-called-pfas-show-your-food-clothes-and-home.
25. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Our Current Understanding of the Human Health and Environmental Risks
of PFAS, 16 May 2024, https://www.epa.gov/pfas/our-current-understanding-human-health-and-environmental-risks-
pfas.
26. United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals, What is plastic pollution?, 25 August 2023, https://www.un.org/
sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/08/explainer-what-is-plastic-pollution/.
27. United Nations Exhibits, In Images: Plastic is forever, June 2021, https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-imagesplastic-
forever#:~:text=Plastic%20waste%20can%20take%20anywhere,in%20the%20last%2013%20years..
28. Center for International Environmental Law, et al., Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet, February
2019, https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Plastic-and-Health-The-Hidden-Costs-of-a-Plastic-Planet-
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