Global Environment Outlook Geo-6: Technical Summary

Summarizes the science that will underpin policies for environmental recovery in a post-COVID-19 era. Also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

1. A healthy planet supports healthy people; 2. Five drivers affect the health of the planet; 3. An Increasingly unhealthy planet affects everyone's health; 4. Despite some success stories, policy measures lag behind; 5. A healthy planet and healthy people are synergetic: Achieving transformative change; 6. Data and knowledge for a healthy planet; Annex 1. Examples of other global environmental assessments and their links to GEO-6; 6. Acronyms and abbreviations; 8. Glossary.

Summary

This Technical Summary synthesizes the science and data in the GEO-6 report, making it accessible to a broad audience of policymakers and scientists. It highlights the need for urgent action and identifies transformational pathways towards environmental and economic recovery in a post-COVID-19 era. Also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: UN Environment
• Assisted by: UN Environment (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108707671
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70767-1
• No. of pages: 116
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Politics and government, Plant Ecology, Animal Ecology, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Zoology and animal sciences, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Botany and plant sciences