Global environment outlook - Geo-6. Technical summary

Joyeeta Gupta, Paul Ekins, Pierre Boileau, Ghassem Asrar, Elaine Baker, Tariq Banuri, Jane Bemigisha, Graeme Clark, John Crump, Florence Mayocyoc-Daguitan, Jonathan Davies, Phillip Dickerson, Nicoalai Dronin, Mark Elder, Erica Gaddis, Jia Gensuo, Anna Maria Grobicki, Cristina Guerreiro, Andres Guhl, Peter Harris, Rowena Hay, Steve Hedden, Klaus Jacob, Mikiko Kainuma, Terry Keating, Peter King, Pali Lehohla, Christian Loewe, Paul Lucas, Diana Mangalagiu, Diego Martino, Shanna McClain, Catherine McMullen, Adelina Mensah, Indu K. Murthy, Charles Mwangi, John Muthama Nzioka, Jacob Park, Laura Pereira, Fernando Filgueira Prates, Walter Rast, Jake Rice, Joni Seager, William Sonntag, Peter Stoett, Michelle Tan, Detlef van Vuuren, Dimitri Alexis Zenghelis

Publication details

Publication type: Research report

Pages: 116

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

NVA: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4863580

Summary:

he sixth Global Environment Outlook was launched in 2019 at the fourth UN Environment Assembly. It highlighted the ongoing damage to life and health from pollution and land degradation, and warned that zoonosis was already accounting for more than 60% of human infectious diseases. Since then the spread of COVID-19 has demonstrated the enormous challenges a global pandemic can cause for health care systems and the economy, as well as revealing potential environmental benefits of an altered lifestyle. This Technical Summary synthesizes the science and data in the GEO-6 report to make it accessible to a broad audience of policymakers, students and scientists. It demonstrates that more urgent and sustained action is required to address the degradation caused by our energy, food and waste systems and identifies a variety of transformational pathways for those seeking far-reaching policies for environmental and economic recovery.