Includes bibliographical references. "United Nations Environment Programme."
Contents:
Introduction and context -- Drivers of environmental change -- The current state of our data and knowledge -- Cross-cutting issues -- Air -- Biodiversity -- Oceans and coasts -- Land and soil -- Freshwater -- Approach to assessment of policy effectiveness -- Policy theory and practice -- Air policy -- Biodiversity policy -- Oceans and coastal policy -- Land and soil policy -- Freshwater policy -- Systemic policy approaches for cross-cutting issues -- Conclusions on policy effectiveness -- Outlooks in GEO-6 -- A long-term vision for 2050 -- Future developments without targeted policies -- Pathways toward sustainable development -- Bottom-up initiatives and participatory approaches for outlooks -- The way forward -- Future data and knowledge needs.
Summary:
"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." --From publisher's description
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