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    • GEO Matters July/August 2022 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2022-08)
      The fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) approved the resolution UNEP/EA.5/Res.3 on the future of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) on March 2, 2022. In the resolution, Member States established the ...
    • GEO Matters June 2018 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2018-06)
      GEO Matters is a monthly newsletter that provides updates on GEO processes and activities. The upcoming GEO-6, expecting to be launched in 2019, will build upon regional assessment processes and create a comprehensive ...
    • GEO Matters June 2019 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019-06)
      The inception meeting of GEO for Cities took place in Arendal, Norway from 13-14 May 2019.The Co-Chairs and Advisory Committee of GEO for Cities met to prepare a draft annotated outline of GEO for Cities and to confirm a ...
    • GEO Matters March 2022 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2022-03)
      The relationship between humankind and nature is out of balance. The planet is facing several fundamental crises brought on by human actions. These include the climate crisis, the loss of biological diversity and increasing ...
    • GEO Matters March-April 2023 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2023-04)
      The Modelling and Scenarios and the Policy Responses and Solutions Pathways experts for GEO-7 met at its first in-person and hybrid workshop in Bangkok, Thailand from 8-10 March 2023. The Modelling and Scenarios workshop ...
    • GEO Matters May 2022 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2022-05)
      The resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) requested the preparation of the seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7). This request directed UNEP’s Executive Director to prepare ...
    • GEO Matters May 2022 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2022-05)
      The resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) requested the preparation of the seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7). This request directed UNEP’s Executive Director to prepare ...
    • GEO Matters November - December 2021 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2021-12)
      The GEO for Business Brief titled ‘Future-proofing infrastructure for climate resilience’ published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to better inform, engage and stimulate positive action from business ...
    • GEO Matters November 2019 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019-11)
      The Co-Chairs and Authors of GEO-6 for Cities met at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Vancouver Downtown from October 14-18, 2019 to familiarize the authors with the GEO process, logistics and procedures as well as allow for ...
    • GEO Matters November-December 2020 

      United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme, 2020-12)
      The Technical Summary had a successful launch on 17th December 2020. The Technical Summary of GEO-6 distills the science and data in the main report and synthesizes the information to make it more accessible to students ...
    • GEO Matters October 2019 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019-10)
      During the annual Committee of Permanent Representatives subcommittee meeting, the Science Division hosted a side event aimed at communicating the messages and findings of the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook ...
    • GEO Matters September 2019 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2019-09)
      The Inception Meeting of the Advisory Committee for GEO for Business was held in Paris, France on 24 September 2019 at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The meeting’s objective was to approve ...
    • GEO Matters September 2021 

      United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Environment Programme (2021-09)
      The third Business Brief entitled The Role of Business in Transforming Food Systems was launched virtually through a LinkedIn live event and zoom webinar on 16 September 2021 with the support of UNEP-WCMC and the UNEP ...
    • GEO-6 December Newsletter 

      United Nations Environment Programme; United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme, 2016-12)
      Newsletter from GEO team.
    • GEO-6 Matters - November 2018 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2018-11)
      This October issue covers the outcome of the Joint Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) and Review Editors Meeting of the of the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) and the outcome of the First face-face meeting of the ...
    • A Glass Half Empty: Regions at Risk Due to Groundwater Depletion - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) January 2012 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2012-01)
      The tiny fraction of freshwater not bound up in ice sheets and glaciers comprises only a very small fraction of total global water volume (about 0.79 %) (1). Global use of that freshwater, however, has been growing at ...
    • Globalizing Environmental Democracy: A Call for International Action - UNEP Perspectives No. 7 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2012)
      This paper seeks to provide reasons why a convention offers a good option for making future progress in implementing Principle 10, (b) suggest what the contents of such a convention might be and (c) conclude with what ...
    • Go green: use sustainable transport 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, 2013)
      The UNEP magazine for youth.
    • Gold Prices on the Rise, Environment under Pressure - Environment Alert Bulletin 8 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2006-11)
      Although the gold industry is often presented as a “first foreign direct investment” leading to positive outcomes in many developing countries and securing the wealth of many nations, it is also clear that some of its ...
    • Green and decent jobs for poverty eradication : UNEP Post 2015 Note 4 

      United Nations Environment Programme (2014)
      Green jobs are not just for high-tech enterprises. Nature-based and other green jobs can create prosperity for all while safeguarding the Earth’s life support systems and the ecological foundation of the economy.