UN report: Investing in planetary health would deliver higher GDP, fewer deaths, less poverty

Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP speaking at the UNEA-7 meeting. PHOTO/UNEP.

By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

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The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.

The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition: A Future We Choose (GEO-7), released during the seventh session of the United Nations…