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Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports that review the state and direction of the global environment, issued periodically by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The GEO project is a response to the environmental reporting requirements of UN Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995.

It was introduced after the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development, at a time when government and stakeholders lacked a common information basis to develop a broad and comprehensive view of environmental issues. [1]

The reports published to date are as the following:

Six GEO reports have been published to date: GEO-1 in 1997,[2] GEO-2000 (i.e., GEO-2) in 1999, GEO-3 in 2002,[3] GEO-4 in 2007,[4] GEO-5 in 2012,[5] and GEO-6 in 2019.[6]

GEO process

GEO is a global process conducted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Its approach is based on the global integrated environment assessment (IEA),[7] as well as at a regional, national and local levels around the world. The process provides an assessment of the current state of the environment, an evaluation of the effectiveness of policies and actions taken to address environmental issues, and projections of future environmental trends.[8][9][10]

This process also includes a review of the scientific literature and consultation with a wide range of stakeholders, including governments, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

The result of the process is intended to inform policy and decision-making at the national and international levels.

The GEO way of doing a global assessment aims to:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Insights from the intellectual history of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO)" (PDF). Central European University.
  2. ^ Environment, U. N. (26 September 2019). "Global Environment Outlook 1: For Life on Earth". UNEP - UN Environment Programme. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  3. ^ Environment, U. N. (24 October 2017). "Global Environment Outlook 3". UNEP - UN Environment Programme. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  4. ^ Environment, U. N. (24 October 2017). "Global Environment Outlook 4". UNEP - UN Environment Programme. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  5. ^ Environment, U. N. (24 October 2017). "Global Environment Outlook 5". UNEP - UN Environment Programme. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  6. ^ Environment, U. N. (4 March 2019). "Global Environment Outlook 6". UNEP - UN Environment Programme. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Integrated Environmental Assessment". UN Environment Programme. 20 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Keeping the World's Environment under Review: An Intellectual History of the Global Environment Outlook". SEI. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  9. ^ "First Global Author's Meeting of the Seventh Global Environment Outlook". UNEP - UN Environment Programme. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  10. ^ "Explained: United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Adaptation Gap Report". IndiaTimes. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  11. ^ "Insights from the intellectual history of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO)" (PDF). Central European University.

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