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Global Environment Outlook - GEO for Youth: Asia and the Pacific
(2019)
This publication aims to reach out to young people in Asia and the Pacific – tertiary students, young adults and
early career professionals. It is intended to enhance their knowledge of three primary subjects – the ...
Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally ...
Introduction and Context - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 1
(2019)
Under the theme of ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People,’ the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) is an integrated assessment which considers various scienti c perspectives and inputs from across the world in a holistic ...
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, ...