2008 in the environment

• The Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy is launched.

• The Ecology Summit was held on Necker Island.

• The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act is passed in the United States. It has provisions for conservation and energy efficiency.

• The 60th International Whaling Commission meeting was held in Santiago, Chile.

• The Agreement on the Conservation of Gorillas and Their Habitats came into effect.

• Concerns were raised about air pollution at the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China.

• The Waste Minimisation Act 2008 passed into law in New Zealand.

• The Climate Change Act 2008 passed into law in the United Kingdom.{{cite web |title=10 years of the UK Climate Change Act |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/10-years-climate-change-act/ |website=Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment |access-date=27 November 2024}}

• The 2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place in Poznań, Poland, between December 1 and December 12, 2008.
• The Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill occurred when an ash dike ruptured at an {{convert|84|acre|km2|adj=on}} solid waste containment area at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee in the United States. An estimated {{convert|1.1|e9USgal|m3}} of coal fly ash slurry was released.

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• Human impact on the environment
• List of environmental issues

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