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Global Environment Outlook
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Global Environment Outlook

GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People

Cambridge UP, 2019


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The sixth Global Environment Outlook report by the United Nations Environment Programme emphasizes that human health is inextricably linked to a healthy planet. Its academic, neutral tone doesn’t disguise the fact that the Earth is in danger and that urgent action must happen now to curb the worst – perhaps unsurvivable – effects of climate change and resource degradation. The report outlines what must be done – rapidly and globally.

Take-Aways

  • The world faces an existential challenge to provide for the well-being of 10 billion inhabitants by 2050 while preserving Earth’s life-supporting ecosystems.
  • By 2050, 6.7 billion people will live in cities – mostly in Asia and Africa – thus increasing urban populations by 3.1 billion within 40 years.
  • Carbon and other greenhouse gases that drive climate change continue to accumulate in the atmosphere as a result of fossil-fuel emissions.

About the Author

Founded in 1972, the UN Environment Programme is a division of the United Nations that coordinates the UN’s environmental activities and helps developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.


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