Global Environment Outlook

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]

  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.