The sixth Global Environment Outlook is an independent, science-focused assessment of the current state of the global environment, the policy response to address these environmental challenges and the outlooks or prospects for the near to medium-term future. Four authors meetings of the sixth Global Environment Outlook assessment have already been held in the period from February 2017 to March 2018. Each of these meetings advanced the drafting of the three main sections of the report, with a total of 25 chapters being drafted by a team of more than
160 coordinating lead authors, lead authors and contributing authors. Each of these chapters has already received some level of peer review with the intergovernmental review of the entire publication scheduled to begin in June 2018.
It is envisaged that the final number of pages for the full report should be of approximately 500 pages, while the sum of all draft chapters received so far amounts to approximately 800 pages. Therefore, in addition to the work of the authors, UN Environment has decided that a qualified science editing team is needed to shorten and streamline the text, improve clarity, coherence, and ‘readability’.
