UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook GEO 4 released on 25 October, 2007

The United Nations Environment Programme says that major threats to the planet such as climate change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the many that remain unresolved, and all of them put humanity at risk.

The warning comes in UNEP's Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO-4) report published 20 years after the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) produced its seminal report, Our Common Future.

GEO-4, the latest in UNEP's series of flagship reports, assesses the current state of the global atmosphere, land, water and biodiversity, describes the changes since 1987, and identifies priorities for action. GEO-4 is the most comprehensive UN report on the environment, prepared by about 390 experts and reviewed by more than 1 000 others across the world.

UCC-Water provided expert input to the chapter on water, and served as reviewer of the concluding chapters of the report

More info on: www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=519&ArticleID=5688&l=en