Events

During this meeting, the GEO for Youth authors will discuss the second order draft of the GEO for Youth report and address the feedback from the internal review process. The outcome of the meeting will be a complete second order draft of the chapters of the GEO for Youth report. The authors will also discuss the results of a global wide survey, launched in December 2018, which will be the main…

The Negotiation of the Summary for Policy Makers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook, will be held at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme in Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya from 21 to 24 January 2019.

At this meeting, countries will negotiate and adopt the Summary for Policy Makers as mandated by the first session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEP/EA.1/Res.4 on…

The Joint Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) and Review Editors Meeting of the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) will be held from 9-11 October 2018 at the Cairo Marriot Hotel, Egypt.

From September 24 and 27, 2018, Cancun, Mexico will host the meeting of the High Level Intergovernmental and Stakeholder Advisory Group responsible for preparing the Summary for Decision Makers of the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook report (GEO-6). The event is organized by UN Environment, in coordination with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico (…

First Authors’ Meeting of GEO-6 for Youth, will be conducted under the supervision of selected experts involved in the main global assessment process. This interaction with senior figures in the global science community is aimed to inspire the GEO-6 for Youth authors and introduce them to global science-policy processes and collaborative mechanisms in policy consensus building.

A selected group of the Policy Effectiveness authors met at the Freie Universitaet in Berlin to advance the drafting of several elements of the Policy Effectiveness chapters of the sixth Global Environment Outlook in preparation for the final Intergovernmental review process.

The highly anticipated and final author’s meeting of the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook was held at the Regent Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore from 19-23 February 2018. The meeting was co-organized by the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources of Singapore and UN Environment. The meeting covered a full five days, with opening ceremonies, an outreach event and planning…

The Third Global Authors Meeting of the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) was held at the Nansha Grand Hotel in Guangzhou, China from  9 -14 October 2017. Nansha Grand Hotel is located in the picturesque Guangzhou Nansha New Coastal City and has one of the most stunning sea-view restaurants in Nansha. The meeting was co-organised by UN Environment and the China Southern (Nansha)…

The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is UN Environment’s main assessment of the state of the global environment, providing environmental trends for air, climate, water, land and biota.  The Global Environment Outlook complements other assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and other UN bodies by…

An exciting week of meetings to launch the drafting of the sixth Global Environment Outlook came to a close on 24 February 2017 in the beautiful town of Frascati, Italy, just outside of Rome. The meeting, graciously funded by the Italian government and hosted at the European Space Agency facilities, brought together several different groups of experts, including: