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Global environment outlook (GEO), Chapters and Articles Introduction and Context - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 1 United Nations Environment Programme
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 manner. The assessment urges the world’s decision makers and all citizens to apply the principles of sustainable development to help ensure that Earth’s environment remains the foundation of society and of people’s well-being and resilience.
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Chapters and Articles Cross-cutting Issues - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 4 United Nations Environment Programme
As understanding of the interdependence between a healthy planet and healthy people becomes more developed, complex issues that thread through systems and societies gain new importance. Beyond the traditional Global Environment Outlook (GEO) themes addressing air, biodiversity, oceans, land and fresh water, this GEO-6 assessment addresses cross-cutting issues worthy of further examination. Using
a systems approach, these cross-cutting issues offerentry points allowing another dimension for analysing GEO-6 themes as well as understanding the network of interconnections throughout earth and human systems.
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Chapters and Articles Biodiversity - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 6 United Nations Environment Programme
Biodiversity is in crisis. There is well-established evidence indicating an irrevocable and continuing decline of genetic and species diversity, and degradation of ecosystems at local and global scales. Scientists are increasingly concerned that, if anthropogenic pressures on Biodiversity continue unabated, we risk precipitating a sixth mass extinction event in Earth history, with profound impacts on human health and equity.
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Other Back Matter [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) [The GEO-6 Process, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Contributors, Glossary] United Nations Environment Programme Download:
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Other GEO-6 - Links to Individual Chapters United Nations Environment Programme
The document lists links to the individual chapters of the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Reports and Books Global Linkages: A Graphic Look at the Changing Arctic United Nations Environment Programme
The new report “Global Linkages – A graphic look at the changing Arctic”, produced by UN Environment and its collaborating center GRID-Arendal, is a set of maps and graphics, accompanied by short narratives to synthesize and illustrate the most critical, connected environmental challenges with Arctic and global relevance and focusing on issues which call for common solutions. The graphics builds on Arctic and global environmental assessments and reflect the dynamic connection between the Arctic and the rest of the planet. It presents both trends and outlooks and provides actionable recommendations focused on policy development and options for solutions. The issues covered by this product reflect the themes of the current Finnish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council – climate change, biodiversity conservation and pollution prevention.
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Summaries Global Environment Outlook: GEO-6 - Summary for Policymakers United Nations Environment Programme
This Summary for Policymakers highlights the findings of the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) report.
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Newsletters GEO Matters June 2018 United Nations Environment Programme
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 picture of the environmental factors contributing to human well-being, accompanied by an analysis of policies leading to greater attainment of global environmental objectives and goals. The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a consultative process, participatory process that builds capacity for conducting integrated environmental assessments and reporting on the state, trends and outlooks of the environment. GEO is also a series of products that informs environmental decision-making and aims to facilitate the interaction between science and policy.
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Chapters and Articles Policy Theory and Practice - Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6): Healthy Planet, Healthy People Chapter 11 United Nations Environment Programme
This section examines the literature and teases out some lessons learned for validation by the policy domains/ instruments and governance arrangements and associated case studies in Chapters 12–17 of Part B (Figure 11 1). Essentially, it addresses the top portion of Figure 11.1, while Chapters 12–17 explore the lower half.
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Global environment outlook (GEO), Infographics GEO-6 Air Infographic United Nations Environment Programme
Future policy effort in managing air pollution and climate change will be crucial to achieve the Paris Agreement target of limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.
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