GEO-2000
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GEO-2000 is the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) Global Environment Outlook 2000.
The UNEP launched the Global Environment Outlook
in 1995 to assess environmental issues and to have them published. The first report was published in 1999.
As well as some of the more well known issues the report identified new threats such as:
United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its...
(UNEP) Global Environment Outlook 2000.
The UNEP launched the Global Environment Outlook
Global Environment Outlook
The UNEP Global Environment Outlook project was initiated in response to the environmental reporting requirements of Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995 which requested the production of a new comprehensive global state of the environment report.The coordinated global...
in 1995 to assess environmental issues and to have them published. The first report was published in 1999.
As well as some of the more well known issues the report identified new threats such as:
- nitrogen's harmful impact on ecosystems
- increased severity of natural disasters
- species invasion as a result of globalization
- increased environmental pressures caused by urbanization
- decline in the quality of governance in some countries
- new wars which impact on both the immediate environment and neighbouring states
- the impact of refugees on the natural environment