The Global Environmental Outlook 7 (GEO-7) has just launched, giving a comprehensive overview of the latest environmental research and providing decision makers with a roadmap for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss including desertification, and pollution and waste.
The seventh Edition of the Global Environment Outlook – the flagship environmental assessment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – highlights how investing in a stable climate and healthy nature can deliver higher GDP, fewer deaths, and less poverty.
GEO-7: Solution pathways for governments
The GEO-7 report assesses systems transformation and solution pathways to address the impacts of the interlinked global environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation, and pollution and waste.
The report highlights how whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches can identify solutions to environmental challenges across key systems, including the economy and finance, materials and waste, energy, and food.
Expert guidance from Tyndall Centre
The seventh edition of the Global Environmental Outlook is the product of 287 multi-disciplinary scientists from 82 countries: the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the global environment ever carried out. The report is co-chaired by Sir Robert Watson, previously Strategic Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
The Tyndall Centre is a GEO-7 Collaborating Centre and technical partner, providing support to the GEO Secretariat and Authors. Through the collaboration, Jordan Harold and Irene Lorenzoni led user-testing of the figures (data visuals) and provided expert communication guidance to the GEO-7 Secretariat and Authors in the preparation of the report’s summary.
Three years in the making, Edgar Gutierrez-Espeleta, co-chair of the report and former Minister for Environment and Energy of Costa Rica 2014-2018, says of the report:
“Environmental issues are no longer just environment issues. They affect the economy, social security, housing, agriculture, transport, the health sector – everything. GEO-7 makes those connections, providing insights into how, when we end environmental degradation, we can tackle other issues as well.“
Read the Global Environment Outlook 7 (GEO-7) report
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