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and climate change adversely affect biodiversity. Deforestation and pollution are direct consequences of overpopulation and both, in turn, affect biodiversity. While overpopulation locally leads to
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focus on the inter-dependency aspect of environmental and economic issues. Among the most evident environmental problems are:
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Not all of these risks are independent, because the majority, if not all of them are a result of human activity.
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presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread
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Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
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No single issue can be analysed, treated, or isolated from the others. For example,
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International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
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has listed issues that it deems to be the most pressing as of 2023:
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Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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List of environmental and other issues affecting life on Earth
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System of Environmental and Economic Accounting for Water
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formulated a list of 10 most pressing points in 2016:
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Index

Global threats
Globalism
public concern
social issues
economic issues
environmental issues
Global catastrophic risk
Biodiversity loss
Climate change
Destructive artificial intelligence
Environmental disaster
Nuclear holocaust
Pandemic
Biotechnology risk
Molecular nanotechnology
Societal collapse
UN
poverty
diseases
desertification
malnutrition
Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
African Union
New Partnership for Africa’s Development
United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur
Ageing
ageing population
demographic transition
Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing
United Nations Principles for Older Persons

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