Soil pollution is a chemical degradation process that consumes fertile soils, with implications for global food security and human health. Soil pollution hampers the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including achieving zero hunger, ending poverty, ensuring healthy lives and human well-being, halting and reversing land degradation and biodiversity loss, and making cities safe and resilient. Most contaminants originate from human activities and enter into the environment because of unsustainable production chains, consumption patterns or inappropriate waste disposal practices. This report considers both point source contamination and diffuse pollution, and detail also the risks and impacts of soil pollution on human health, the environment and food security, without neglecting soil degradation and the burden of disease resulting from exposure to polluted soil.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/global-assessment-soil-pollution-report
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/fao
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-pollution
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-degradation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/soil-resources
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystems
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sustainable-development-goals-sdgs
