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GEO Matters - November 2017
(2017)
The highly anticipated third global authors’ meeting of the Global Environment Outlook was held at the Nansha Grand Hotel in Guangzhou, China from 9-14 October 2017. The meeting was co-organized by UN Environment and the ...
Huge Iceberg Breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) December 2010
(2010-12)
Glaciers are naturally dynamic, slowly changing in shape and size as they move. When a glacier enters the sea, new icebergs form as pieces break off, or calve, from the glacier. How much calving occurs depends on the ...
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 October 2019
(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
(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 - 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 ...
Athabasca Oil Sands, Require Massive Investments and Energy and Produce Massive Amounts of Oil and CO2 — Alberta, Canada - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) January 2011
(2011-01)
The Athabasca Oil Sands region of Alberta, Canada forms the second-largest deposit of recoverable oil in the world after Saudi Arabia (Whitfield and others 2010). The energy and environmental costs of extracting oil from ...
SDG 6 Issue Brief: Ensuring Availability and Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for All
(2018)
Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) – Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all – con rms the importance of water and sanitation in the global political agenda. Building on the ...
SDG 12 Issue Brief: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns
(2018)
Sustainable Development Goal 12 – ensuring sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns promotes increased
human well-being while decoupling economic growth from resource use and environmental degradation.
The Rush for Land and Its Potential Environmental Consequence - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) July 2011
(2011-07)
To feed a global population of 9.3 billion by 2050 (2.4 billion more than today, UNPD 2011) FAO estimates that global food demand will increase by 70 per cent (FAO 2009). Net investment in agriculture needs to exceed US$83 ...