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Climate change, pollutants and the loss of biodiversity are the main threats to the sustainability of all life on our planet. They cause illnesses, disabilities and premature deaths that hit the world’s most vulnerable populations hardest. Pollution alone kills more than nine million people a year.
We’re racing to replace that.
Boston College created the Global Observatory on Planetary Health to track the effects of global collapse on human fitness and expand science-based solutions. We take a look at the effects of climate change on children’s fitness and air pollutants on core diseases. We examine the health hazards of plastics in their life cycle and work with the United Nations to expand a physically powerful and legally binding global plastics treaty. We are working with colleagues at Boston College Law School to expand features to reform domestic and foreign chemical policy that will protect human fitness and promote social justice.
The work of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health is driven and guided by Pope Francis’ formation in his encyclical, Laudato Si’, in which he calls on all of us to care for our planet, our habitual home, to end injustice and to work. a preferential option for the poor.
The Observatory has established partnerships with the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization and the Monaco Scientific Centre.
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