UNEP Post-2015 Note #3 Human Health and the Environment

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Publication Date: 2014 

This third briefing note on priorities for the post-2015 development agenda provides recommendations on effective environmental management in order to improve human health. It discusses the health impacts - especially on the poor - of air pollution, chemicals and waste exposure, poor water quality, ecosystem degradation and malnutrition, and climate change and ozone depletion.