Aerial view of used clothes discarded in the Atacama desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, on September 26, 2021. EcoFibra, Ecocitex and Sembra are circular economy projects that have textile waste as their raw material. The textile industry in Chile will be included in the law of Extended Responsibility of the Producer (REP), forcing clothes and textiles importers take charge of the waste they generate. (Photo by Martin Bernetti/AFP Photo)





Oil washes up on Huntington Beach, Calif., Sunday, October 3, 2021. (Photo by Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP Photo)





In this Saturday, October 17, 2009, file photo, Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed signs a document calling on all countries to cut down their carbon dioxide emissions ahead of a major U.N. climate change conference in December in Copenhagen, in Girifushi, about 20 minutes by speedboat from the capital Male, Maldives. Failing to limit global warming could spell a “death sentence” for small island developing nations like Maldives, the country's environment minister said Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, and added that these nations urgently needed emergency funds to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change. (Photo by Mohammed Seeneen/AP Photo/File)





This aerial view taken on October 27, 2021 near Gletsch shows insulating foam covering a part of the Rhone Glacier to prevent it from melting due to global warming. Swiss glaciers lost 1% of their volume in 2021, despite heavy snow and a cool summer, due to climate change. “Although 2021 shows the lowest ice loss since 2013, no slowdown is in sight for glacier retreat”, noted experts from the Expert commission of the cryosphere measurement network of the Swiss Academy of Sciences on October 19, 2021. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)





Plastic bottles and garbage float in Katari River which flows into Titicaca Lake, in Chojasivi, Bolivia, Friday, November 5, 2021. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





A person eats snack sitting on his boat in the Yamuna River, covered by a chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution as the skyline is enveloped in a blanket of toxic smog, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Schools were closed indefinitely and some coal-based power plants shut down as the Indian capital and neighboring states invoked harsh measures Wednesday to combat air pollution after an order from the federal environment ministry panel. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)





Corals fertilize billions of offspring by casting sperm and eggs into the Pacific Ocean off the Queensland state coastal city of Cairns, Australia, Tuesday, November 23, 2021. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is spawning in an explosion of color as the World Heritage-listed natural wonder recovers from life-threatening coral bleaching episodes. (Photo by Gabriel Guzman/Calypso Productions via AP Photo)





A view of piles of old tyres in the village of Magure, Kosovo, 01 December 2021. Many cities in Kosovo suffer from poor air quality, significantly exceeding the national and European Union (EU) standards and global air quality guidelines for PM2.5 established by the World Health Organization (WHO). (Photo by Valdrin Xhemaj/EPA/EFE)





Plastic trashes and discarded wood that washed ashore are seen in Berawa Beach, Bali, Indonesia on December 12, 2021. Tons of marine pollutions washed ashore along the coastline during monsoon season making Bali's popular beach covered with plastic rubbish, woods and other discarded materials. (Photo by Johannes P. Christo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





The body of a wild elephant lies in an open landfill in Pallakkadu village in Ampara district, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of the capital Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, January 6, 2022. Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in the open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants in the region, after two more were found dead over the weekend. Around 20 elephants have died over the last eight years after consuming plastic trash in the dump. Examinations of the dead animals showed they had swallowed large amounts of nondegradable plastic that is found in the garbage dump, wildlife veterinarian Nihal Pushpakumara said. (Photo by Achala Pussalla/AP Photo)





Oil pollutes Cavero beach in Ventanilla, Callao, Peru, Tuesday, January 18, 2022, after high waves attributed to the eruption of an undersea volcano in Tonga caused an oil spill. The Peruvian Civil Defense Institute said in a press release that a ship was loading oil into La Pampilla refinery on the Pacific coast on Sunday when strong waves moved the boat and caused the spill. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)





Cleaning teams work to remove oil at the shores after an oil spill in the Ventanilla Sea in the province of Callao has stained the beaches of the district area in Lima, Peru on January 20, 2022. The spill was recorded on Saturday, January 15, during the unloading of crude oil from a ship at the La Pampilla Refinery, after strong waves reached the Peruvian coast as a result of the underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga. On January 20, the district of Ventanilla asks the government to declare an environmental emergency after the oil spill, in addition to groups of people and animalists who came to the rescue of various types of birds. (Photo by Klebher Vasquez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A worker, dressed in a protective suit, cleans Conchitas Beach contaminated by an oil spill, in Ancon, Peru, Thursday, January 20, 2022. The oil spill on the Peruvian coast was caused by the waves from an eruption of an undersea volcano in the South Pacific nation of Tonga. (Photo by Martin Mejia/AP Photo)





A dead bird lies on a beach during a clean-up, following an oil spill caused by abnormal waves, triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption half a world away, in Tonga, in Ventanilla, Peru on January 18, 2022. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)





A handout photo made available by the Municipality of Ventanilla showing the cleaning work of the oil spill spilled on 15 January into the Pacific Ocean from the Peruvian refinery of La Pampilla, by the tsunami from the volcanic eruption of Tonga, in Lima, Peru, 19 January 2022. Although the La Pampilla Refinery, operated by Repsol, initially told the Peruvian Prosecutor's Office that the spill had been about seven gallons of crude oil, it has already affected several beaches and protected natural areas in the municipality of Ventanilla, in the constitutional province of Callao, which is adjacent to Lima. “It has gone from being a small spill to being a disaster of proportions”, according to the mayor of Ventanilla, Pedro Spadaro. (Photo by Cristhian Meza/Municipality of Ventanilla/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)