Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People

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Published to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment's sixth Global Environment Outlook calls on decision makers to take bold and urgent action to address pressing environmental issues in order to protect the planet and human health. By bringing together hundreds of scientists, peer reviewers and collaborating institutions and partners, the GEO reports build on sound scientific knowledge to provide governments, local authorities, businesses and individual citizens with the information needed to guide societies to a truly sustainable world by 2050. GEO-6 outlines the current state of the environment, illustrates possible future environmental trends and analyses the effectiveness of policies. This flagship report shows how governments can put us on the path to a truly sustainable future - emphasising that urgent and inclusive action is needed to achieve a healthy planet with healthy people. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Winner, 2020 PROSE Award for Environmental Science

‘The sixth Global Environment Outlook is an essential check-up for our planet. Like any good medical examination, there is a clear prognosis of what will happen if we continue with business as usual and a set of recommended actions to put things right. GEO-6 details both the perils of delaying action and the opportunities that exist to make sustainable development a reality.'

António Guterres - Secretary-General of the United Nations

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Frontmatter
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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK GEO-6 HEALTHY PLANET, HEALTHY PEOPLE
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Acknowledgements
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Table of contents
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Miscellaneous Frontmatter
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Secretary-General's Foreword
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Acting UN Environment Executive Director's Foreword
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Co-Chairs' Foreword
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Co-Chairs' Message
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Setting the Stage
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Chapter 1 - Introduction and Context
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Chapter 2 - Drivers of Environmental Change
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Chapter 3 - The Current State of our Data and Knowledge
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Chapter 4 - Cross-cutting Issues
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PART A - STATE OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
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Chapter 5 - Air
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Chapter 6 - Biodiversity
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Chapter 7 - Oceans and Coasts
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Chapter 8 - Land and Soil
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Chapter 9 - Freshwater
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PART B - POLICIES, GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS
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Chapter 10 - Approach to Assessment of Policy Effectiveness
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Chapter 11 - Policy Theory and Practice
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Chapter 12 - Air Policy
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Chapter 13 - Biodiversity Policy
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Chapter 14 - Oceans and Coastal Policy
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Chapter 15 - Land and Soil Policy
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