Good morning, today we’re covering one of the world’s biggest killers, toxic chemicals, and efforts underway to eradicate them.

Plus, how military coups cause a tussle over representatives in Geneva and, in the same city, how Russia and Ukraine make uncomfortable neighbours.

17.02.2022

On our radar

Site of leaking underground gasoline tanks, near the Mesa Verde National Park, in Colorado, USA. (Credit: Keystone/Science Photo Library/Jim West)

🧪 Invisible planetary crisis. Chemicals kill at least nine million people prematurely every year, according to a new UN report, and they’re flooding the environment beyond the Earth’s capacity to cope. Countries have agreed to ban some of the most deadly substances in the last 30 years, but thousands of chemicals have yet to be tested for their adverse effects. Is it too late to avert what the UN has dubbed the third planetary crisis?

Geneva Solutions (EN)

Here's what else is happening

Tussles in Geneva over UN credentials: who represents a country after a coup?
Swissinfo (EN)
In Geneva’s Servette district, 15 metres separate Russian and Ukrainian diplomats. They prefer to ignore each other.
Tribune de Geneve (Paywall) (FR)
Conflict over Ukraine: ‘Putin has already achieved a great deal with his military muscle flexing.’
NZZ (Paywall) (DE)
How South Sudan’s peace deal sparked conflict in a town spared by war.
The New Humanitarian (EN)
BioNTech to ship modular mRNA vaccine facilities to three African countries to jump-start production.
Health Policy Watch (EN)

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