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Climate change and management of hazardous chemicals and wastes are two of the many challenges facing policy and decision makers committed to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, as set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Improving air quality is key to tackling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and waste. Yet, air quality continues ti deteriorate despite the increase in laws and regulations seeking to address air pollution. This global assessment of air quality legislation in 194 States and the European Union seeks to provide insights into this pressing concern.

A protected area is a clearly defined geographical space recognised, dedicated and managed through legal of other effective means to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect societies across the world, the ongoing economic and social disruptions are likely to present fundamental challenges for current and future biodiversity conservation.

Despite islands contributing only 6.7% of land surface area, they harbor ~20% of the Earth's biodiversity, but unfortunately also ~50% of the threatened species and 75% of the known extinctions since the European expansions around the globe.

It is a relatively a new technology globally with considerable uncertainty regarding the potential for environmental impacts. There are currently no recognised international best practice guidelines for minimising or mitigating environmental impacts.

Data, which are growing at an unprecedented rate, are becoming an integral part of the daily lives of most people everywhere. But how does that matter for the more than 700 million people living in extreme poverty? Is the explosion in the new types and uses of data improving their lives? Or will poor people and poor countries be left behind, creating a widening gap between those who reap the benefits of this new data-driven world and those who do not?

The importance of measuring economic impacts of tourism in protected areas. The value of protected areas is often hidden from direct view. Once managers understand the number of behaviour of visitors they host, and the revenues and costs they generate, informed decisions on management plans and tourism strategies can be made.

Many species of sharks are threatened with extinction, and there has been a longstanding debate in scientific and environmental circles over the most effective and appropriate strategy to conserve and protect them.

One Planet, Once Ocean - the oceans connect the wold, and international cooperation is critical to protect ocean environment. Under the international framework, Japan recognizes its rights and duties as a maritime nation to understand the oceans and is called upon to advance sustainable ocean development both nationally and abroad, with the findings of ocean science as its basis.