United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
5th Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5)
June 6 (Wednesday), 2012
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the 5th Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) in advance of Rio +20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. As a UNEP focal point, the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) has contributed significantly to the development of the GEO series, from GEO-1 to the latest edition, GEO-5.
1. Overview:
Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) is currently the most authoritative assessment of the state of the global environment, as well as its’ trends and outlook. The report was produced over three years in a process involving more than six hundred experts worldwide, who collated and analyzed data from every continent to build up a detailed picture of the state of the world‘s wellbeing.
2. The full report is downloadable here:
http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/geo5/GEO5_report_full_en.pdf
http://www.unep.org/geo/geo5.asp (Download by chapter)
Summary for Policy Makers URL: http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/GEO5_SPM_English.pdf
Summary for Policy Makers（E-Book）URL: http://content.yudu.com/A1vr3p/GEO5SPM/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unep.org%2Fgeo%2FGEO5_SPM.asp
3. PR document:
GEO-5: Summary for Global PR [PDF: 260KB]
GEO–5: Summary for Asia Pacific [PDF: 299KB]
The companion report - Measuring Progress: Environmental Goals and Gaps - surveys and elucidates the world‘s progress towards meeting international environmental goals for a particular set of critical issues, and highlights gaps in our ability to measure progress, including the absence of clear numerical targets, and gaps in important data relating to various issues:
http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/geo5/Measuring_progress.pdf
Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20 – is a compendium of facts and figures which track the environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years:
http://www.unep.org/GEO/pdfs/Keeping_Track.pdf
Contact:
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