UNEP's Global Environment Outlook (GEO) on Internet
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Announcement:
UNEP's Global Environment Outlook (GEO) on Internet
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WWW http://www.unep.org/unep/eia/geo/ (Main
site)
WWW http://www.grida.no/geo/ (European mirror
site)
GEO is a biennial report series and an international
participatory assessment process. Its twin purposes are to:
1. Provide an overview of major global environmental concerns, their
causes and impacts; and identify, from a regional perspective, the
priority issues the international community should address in
environmental policy setting and action planning;
2. Set in motion a global participatory assessment process that
provides a continuous, regionally distributed, scientific and
policy-consultative mechanism to keep under review the state of the
global environment, identify emerging issues, set priorities for
action and guide substantive debate and policy setting in
international environmental policy fora.
The GEO on Internet WWW pages describe the two main purposes, and give
an overview of the various GEO components;
- the Collaborating Centres;
- the mechanism for regional consultations;
- the four scientific Working Groups; and
- the UN participation through the UN system-wide Earthwatch process
The first GEO report, to be released at the UNEP Governing Council in
January 1997, will simultaneously we released on Internet.
Further information about the Global Environment Outlook:
Veerle Vanderweerd, UNEP, GEO Project Manager
(Veerle.Vandeweerd@unep.org)
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