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Gas Fracking: Can We Safely Squeeze the Rocks? - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) November 2012
(2012-11)Hydrological fracturing techniques have made accessible vast unconventional gas reserves. However, observed impacts on the environment and human health raise legitimate public concerns. The potential climate benefits of ... -
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GEMS Ocean Newsletter No. 02
Featured topics: GEMS Ocean Current Activities; GEMS Ocean Planned Activities; GEMS Ocean Event Participation; Partnerships; Regional Engagements and Upcoming Events -
Gender and Environment: Empowering Rural Women: Access to Land and Natural Resources - SDG Policy Brief No. 002
(2018)Women constitute approximately half of the rural labour force and are economically active in each subsector of the rural economy. Their livelihoods are often based on access to and control over natural resources. The ... -
GEO Matters - April 2019
(2019-04)The second Global Session of the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment convened from 9-10 March 2019 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya, on the eve of the fourth session of ... -
GEO Matters - August 2019
(2019-08)The Global Environment Outlook assessments are a rich and valuable resource for decision-makers, practitioners and researchers about the current state of the environment with in-depth scientific knowledge. The Global ... -
GEO Matters - December 2017
(2017)The Fourth and final Global Authors Meeting of the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) will be held at the Regent Hotel on 1 Cuscaden Road in Singapore, from 19 to 23 February 2018. The meeting is co-organised by UN ... -
GEO Matters - December 2018
(2018-12)An outline of the negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers meeting that will take place from 21-24 January 2019 and a profile on Rohan Bhargava, a GEO-6 author. -
GEO Matters - February 2018
(2018)This global assessment focuses more on proposing solutions to our environmental challenges rather than the environmental impacts themselves. As the co-chairs of the process, we want to ensure that this assessment has the ... -
GEO Matters - February 2019
(2019-02)A selected group of authors drafting the GEO for youth report met at the United Nations Offices in, Nairobi to advance the drafts reports to a second order draft state. The objective of the meeting was to; • Complete ... -
GEO Matters - February 2020
(2020-02)The following constitutes the key points of this issue: GEO-6 Emerges Winner of the 2020 Prose Category Excellence Winners; Environmental Science; PROSE Awards; Second Global Authors Meeting of the GEO for Cities; and GEO-6 ... -
GEO Matters - January 2018
(2018)As the Global Environment Outlook process advances, we are quickly approaching our fourth and final authors meeting in Singapore (19-23 February 2017). This meeting will be crucial for ensuring high-quality second-order ... -
GEO Matters - January 2019
(2019-01)The negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) convened from 21-24 January 2019 at the UN Environment headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The intergovernmental meeting ... -
GEO Matters - July 2017
(2017)The goal of GEO for Youth is to firstly inform younger generations about the drivers of the environmental change, the current state of the environment and the future pathways we need to undertake to reach a sustainable ... -
GEO Matters - July 2018
(2018-07)This issue features key GEO-related events including the First GEO for Youth authors meeting held in Bangkok on 25-27 June 2018, and the Meeting of the Policy Effectiveness Authors of the sixth edition of the Global ... -
GEO Matters - July 2019
(2019-07)At the fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO) and its accompanying Summary for Policymakers were welcomed with appreciation by Member States. Countries also discussed ... -
GEO Matters - July 2020
(2020-07)The Committee of Permanent Representatives Subcommittee meeting was held on 14 July 2020 as an Online Meeting chaired by H.E. Mr. Fernando Coimbra, Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representative, Ambassador and Permanent ... -
GEO Matters - June 2017
(2017)The highly anticipated second global authors meeting of the Global Environment Outlook took place in Bangkok, Thailand from the 22-26 May 2017. The meeting was hosted at the United Nations Conference Centre facilities. The ... -
GEO Matters - June 2020
(2020)The Act #ForNature Global Online Forum took place on 7-10 June 2020. This forum brought together citizens, government and non-governmental organizations, businesses and scientific institutions from around the globe to ... -
GEO Matters - March 2019
(2019-03)The sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook which is the most comprehensive and rigorous assessment on the state of the environment completed by the United Nations in the last five years was published on 13 March ...