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Land and Soil - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 8
(2019)
The main messages of the fth report of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) could be extrapolated to GEO-6. Perhaps the most important difference is the recognition of climate change as a driver of environmental change, ...
Future Developments Without Targeted Policies - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 21
(2019)
This chapter examines the international scenario literature to assess to what extent current and long-term trends are in line with achieving these targets, and to understand and highlight potential implementation gaps.
Pathways towards Sustainable Development - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 22
(2019)
This chapter assesses the scenario literature for possible pathways that would achieve those targets, thereby closing the implementation gap (Table 21 2). The focus is on the question of what would be needed to achieve ...
Bottom-up Initiatives and Participatory Approaches for Outlooks - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 23
(2019)
This chapter assesses participatory processes and local practices seeking transformed futures and grounds the interventions proposed in Chapter 22 with existing examples. The following sections provide background information ...
Future Data and Knowledge Needs - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 25
(2019)
This chapter discusses emerging areas of environmental information and statistics, including citizen science, big data and traditional knowledge. It aims to summarize the gaps and opportunities for improving the environmental ...
The Way Forward - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 24
(2019)
Some pathways for change are assessed in various sustainability scenarios in Chapter 22, and through the potential seeds of change in Chapter 23. The sustainability challenge, however, requires new strategies that will ...
A Long-term Vision for 2050 - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 20
(2019)
In this chapter, we de ne the vision used for the scenario analysis of GEO-6, taking a long-term perspective, beyond 2030. This vision uses the SDGs as an overarching, integrated set of goals and targets to start from, ...
Putting the Environment at the Heart of People's Lives - Annual Report 2018
(2019)
Over the last year, UN Environment supported Member States as they stepped up their efforts to build a better, cleaner and more equitable world. While it was a challenging year, we saw hope in growing action and global ...
Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook
(2019)
The Small Island Developing States Waste Management Outlook provides an assessment of solid, liquid and gaseous waste generated in 58 Small Island Developing States. It also recommends a series of initiatives that can be ...
Contributions of the UN Environment Assembly to the 2019 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
(2019)
Ensuring the health of the environment is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In particular, taking urgent action to curb global average temperature rise to well below 2C will prove critical ...