
11 million tonnes of plastic are discharged into the ocean annually.

The expansion of green areas in cities can potentially contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, heat and flood mitigation, erosion reduction and carbon capture.

The number of net exporters is decreasing, highlighting a growing vulnerability of the global trading system, as it comes to rely on ever fewer resource producers.

Rising income and urbanization are changing diets and increasing the need for agricultural land.

13% of the global urban population lives in coastal areas.

In 20 years, available water supplies may satisfy just 60 per cent of world demand

Impacts on air, water, land and biodiversity occur along the whole life cycle of metals.

Restoring 350 million hectares of degraded landscapes by 2030 could generate $US 9 trillion in ecosystem services and take 13-26 gigatons of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.