- Fossil fuel-based energy development in China contributes significantly to CO2 emissions, driving climate change that threatens biodiversity globally, and driving air pollution in mega-cities, significantly elevating respiratory disease.
- Poor management and globalization of Southwest Pacific fisheries endangers critical fish populations and lowers access to local food supply and income for local communities.
- Limited supply chain control by large food companies hinders corporate sustainability and promotes deforestation and unsustainable agriculture practices that threaten the majority of terrestrial tropical species in decline.
- Poor access to sanitation in India contaminates rivers, driving threatened endemic species declines, contaminating drinking water supplies, and driving high child malnutrition rates.
- Lax building codes in Washington DC promote high impervious surface area, high and contaminated stormwater runoff that contributes to combined sewer overflow and pollution of the Potomac River, damaging freshwater habitat and restricting recreational swimming and fishing use of the river.
- Limited regulation on siting of renewable energy infrastructure in Eastern Africa drives habitat conversion in critical areas and takes key agricultural lands out of production, reducing local access to food and employment.