Impact of organic pollutants from informal settlements on sustainable development goals and river sediment quality, Nairobi, Kenya

With Dr Christopher Vane, Head of Organic Geochemistry, British Geological Survey.

Part of the Geosciences Seminar Series.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) highlight the myriad of socio-economic and environmental challenges occurring as a result of anthropogenic chemical pollution. This talk examines source, toxicity and interactions across a range of chemical pollutants occurring in sediments from informal settlements (urban slums) of Nairobi, Kenya.