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 ...

This section of the GEO-6 report covers the objective, scope and process of sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook

Marine protected areas offer one of the best options for maintaining or returning ocean and coastal ecosystems to healthy conditions, particularly when developed as part of a wider management system. Ecological benefits ...

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 ...

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, ...

The UNEP Frontiers 2016 edition presents six emerging issues. It highlights, for example, that the global significance of the financial sector should not confine itself only to enhancing global economic growth, but also ...

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.

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 ...