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

The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Its mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Setting the stage: 1. Introduction and context; 2. Drivers of environmental change; 3. The current state of our data and knowledge; 4. Cross-cutting issues; Part I. State of the Global Environment: 5. Air; 6. Biodiversity; 7. Oceans and coasts; 8. Land and soil; 9. Freshwater; Part II. Policies, Goals, Objectives and Environmental Governance: An Assessment of their Effectiveness: 10. Approach to assessment of policy effectiveness; 11. Policy theory and practice; 12. Air policy; 13. Biodiversity policy; 14. Oceans and coastal policy; 15. Land and soil policy; 16. Freshwater policy; 17. Systematic policy approaches for cross-cutting issues; 18. Conclusions on policy effectiveness; Part III. Outlooks and Pathways to a Healthy Planet with Healthy People: 19. Outlooks in GEO-6; 20. A long-term vision for 2050; 21. Future developments without targeted policies; 22. Pathways toward sustainable development; 23. Bottom-up initiatives and participatory approaches for outlooks; 24. The way forward; Part IV. Remaining Data and Knowledge Gaps: 25. Future data and knowledge needs; Annexes; The GEO-6 process.