“The moment has come to put away the paralysis of indecision, acknowledge the facts and face up to the common humanity that unites all peoples,” said Mr Steiner. Negotiations leading up to the Rio+20 meeting have had difficulties, with a lack of agreement on areas such as eliminating subsidies of fossil fuels, regulating fishing in the high seas and forcing corporations to measure their environmental footprint. This is despite 700 international agreements on tackling specific aspects of environmental decline.
The four environmental areas that UNEP have found process in are making petrol lead-free, tackling ozone layer depletion, increasing access to clean water and boosting research on marine pollution.Īreas of little or no progress included tackling climate change. The assessment lays the foundation for continued socio-environmental assessments across relevant scales, with a. “If current trends continue, if current patterns of production and consumption of natural resources prevail and cannot be reversed, then governments will preside over unprecedented levels of damage and degradation.” The sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) provides a clear assessment of the current state of the environment, the challenges that we face and how well we have dealt with them, with due consideration given to gender, indigenous knowledge and cultural dimensions. “GEO-5 reminds world leaders and nations meeting at Rio+20 why a decisive and defining transition towards a low-carbon resource-efficient, job-generating ‘green economy’ is urgently needed,” said Achim Steiner, UNEP’s executive director. This news, just ahead of the Rio+20 summit, has caused UNEP to issue a call for world leaders to resolve climate targets at the summit.
In 1995, in support of UNEPs unique mandate within the UN system to keep under review the world environmental situation, (GA resolution 2997 of December 1972), the UNEP Governing Council requested a new, comprehensive report on the state of the world environment (Decision. UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) is a five-yearly assessment of the natural world and the latest assessment has revealed that significant process has only been made on four out of 90 environmental goals. Global Environment Outlook 5 (GEO 5): Environment for the Future We Want. The future for humanity is anything but sustainable, the UN has warned, citing the decline of forests and fish stocks, rising demand for water and lack of action on climate change as cause for concern.
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