The fourth Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO-4) assessment is a comprehensive and authoritative UN report on environment, development and human well-being, providing incisive analysis and information for decision making.

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UNEP has launched the third series of GEO report known as "GEO-3" which provides opportune brief for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable development in Johannesburg, South Africa.UNEP and some 1000 individual and 40 institutions from around world have participated in the GEO-3 report preparation process.

GEO-3 sets out to provide global and regional perspective on the past, present and future environment, linked together with telling examples from within the regions to form a comprehensive and integrated assessment.

GEO-3 provides overview of major developments between 1972 and 2002 highlights significant milestones and integrates environmental, economic and social factors within a unified world view. The retrospective chapter explores many of these developments in greater depth from global and regional standpoints. The report presents a global overview and also directs a spotlight onto two or three key issues that are considered paramount in each of the seven regional arenas under each of eight environmental themes in turn: land, forests, biodiversity, freshwater, Coastal and marine areas, atmosphere, urban areas and disasters.

Analysing the most up-to-date and reliable information on these issues reveals the critical trends during the 30 year period - critical trends about the environment, and about the impacts that environmental change have had on people.

GEO-3 report also breaks new ground by using scenario analysis to explore the environmental outlook, fast-forwarding the reader into an array of alternative futures that provide insight on where events could lead us at various stages between 2002 and 2032.

GEO-2000 was edited by Robin Clarke - and published by Earthscan Publications Lton behalf of UNEP.
Telephone: +44-171 2780433;
Fax: +44-171 2781142.
It is available from Earthscan at a cost of USD 37.50
It is also accessible on http://www.unep.org/GEO/geo3

UNEP GEO-2000 report is the most authoritative assessment ever of the environmental crisis facing humanity in the new millennium. 

Based on contributions from UN agencies, 850 individuals and more than 30 environmental institutes, GEO-2000 outlines progress in tackling existing problems and points to serious new threats.  It concludes by setting out recommendations for immediate, integrated action. 

GEO-2000 analyses both global and regional issues.  Its key finding is that:  "The continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation.  The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option." 

GEO-2000 was edited by Robin Clarke - and published by Earthscan Publications on behalf of UNEP.    Telephone:  +44-171 2780433; Fax:  +44-171 2781142.  It is available from Earthscan at a cost of US$40. 

It is also accessible on http://www.unep.org/geo2000

At the Global level, it is a great challenge to address global priorities without losing the regional and national relevance of the assessment process. UNEP initiated the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) process to produce a Global assessment of the state of the environment that is based on a participatory and consulative process with national governments and centres of excellence throughout the world. The government consultations and network of collaborating centres makes GEO unique among global level assessments. GEO-1 was published in 1997, and can be viewed on this site, or ordered by contacting UNEP Nairobi or directly from the Oxford University Press.