SWEDEN: The world's well-being is at risk, in part because "we haven't maintained our promises on the environment," said the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who spoke at the Stockholm+50 conference to call for urgent action for a healthy planet for everyone's prosperity.

Despite achievements in environmental protection since 1972, such as saving the ozone layer, Guterres warned that "earth's natural systems cannot keep up with our demands." "Lead us out of this mess," he urged delegates at the UN General Assembly's Swedish summit, in a call for action against a "triple planetary crisis" caused by the climate emergency, which "is killing and displacing ever more people each year," biodiversity loss, which threatens "more than three billion people," and pollution and waste, which "costs some nine million lives every year."

Guterres stressed that all governments do more to environment everyone's essential human right to a clean, healthy environment, concentrating in particular on "poor communities, women and girls, indigenous peoples, and future generations."

Fifty years after Sweden hosted the first-ever United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, and with the world facing a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, governments, civil society, young people, and the private sector gathered in Stockholm on Thursday for Stockholm+50, an international meeting to spur urgent action for a healthy planet for everyone's prosperity.

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