The United Nations (UN) has projected the global population will reach 7.3 billion people by 2030 and surpass 9 billion by 2050 - with this comes a number of social and ecological risks.

Despite the world making remarkable progress in combating poverty through the United Nations Millennium Development and Sustainable Development Goals, over 300 million people in Africa still live in.

Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting so rapidly that now over 200 billion tonnes of ice is pouring into the ocean annually, causing sea levels to increase by a half-millimetre every year.