Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People

Shows how bold action by governments can protect human health and lead us to a sustainable future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

UN Environment (Edited by)

9781108707664, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 June 2019

742 pages
28 x 21.8 x 3.6 cm, 2.32 kg

'The sixth Global Environment Outlook is an essential check-up for our planet. Like any good medical examination, there is a clear prognosis of what will happen if we continue with business as usual and a set of recommended actions to put things right. GEO-6 details both the perils of delaying action and the opportunities that exist to make sustainable development a reality.' António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Published to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment's sixth Global Environment Outlook calls on decision makers to take bold and urgent action to address pressing environmental issues in order to protect the planet and human health. By bringing together hundreds of scientists, peer reviewers and collaborating institutions and partners, the GEO reports build on sound scientific knowledge to provide governments, local authorities, businesses and individual citizens with the information needed to guide societies to a truly sustainable world by 2050. GEO-6 outlines the current state of the environment, illustrates possible future environmental trends and analyses the effectiveness of policies. This flagship report shows how governments can put us on the path to a truly sustainable future - emphasising that urgent and inclusive action is needed to achieve a healthy planet with healthy people. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Setting the stage: 1. Introduction and context
2. Drivers of environmental change
3. The current state of our data and knowledge
4. Cross-cutting issues
Part I. State of the Global Environment: 5. Air
6. Biodiversity
7. Oceans and coasts
8. Land and soil
9. Freshwater
Part II. Policies, Goals, Objectives and Environmental Governance: An Assessment of their Effectiveness: 10. Approach to assessment of policy effectiveness
11. Policy theory and practice
12. Air policy
13. Biodiversity policy
14. Oceans and coastal policy
15. Land and soil policy
16. Freshwater policy
17. Systematic policy approaches for cross-cutting issues
18. Conclusions on policy effectiveness
Part III. Outlooks and Pathways to a Healthy Planet with Healthy People: 19. Outlooks in GEO-6
20. A long-term vision for 2050
21. Future developments without targeted policies
22. Pathways toward sustainable development
23. Bottom-up initiatives and participatory approaches for outlooks
24. The way forward
Part IV. Remaining Data and Knowledge Gaps: 25. Future data and knowledge needs
Annexes
The GEO-6 process.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Pollution & threats to the environment [RNP], Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations [RNB], Oceanography [seas RBKC], Marine biology [PSPM], Science: general issues [PD], Medicine [M], Environment law [LNKJ], International environmental law [LBBP], Politics & government [JP]