Keeping Track of our changing environment can be found on the GEO-5 website:  http://www.unep.org/GEO/pdfs/Keeping_Track.pdf

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From the Decline of Arctic Sea Ice to Trends in Energy Use
New UNEP Report Tracks the Changing Global Environment over the Past Two Decades as World Population Hits 7 Billion
New Report Lays-out the Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development up to Rio+20 and beyond

Nairobi, 1 November 2011 – The environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years are spotlighted in a new compilation of statistical data by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released today in a report entitled “Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20”.

The report is produced as part of UNEP’s “Global Environmental Outlook-5” (GEO -5) series, the UN’s most authoritative assessment of the state, trends and outlook of the global environment. The full  GEO-5 report will be launched next May, one month ahead of the Rio+20 Conference taking place in Brazil.

UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner, said, “Today marks the deadline for governments, business and civil society to submit their submissions for how Rio+20 can deliver a transformational outcome in terms of accelerating and scaling-up sustainable development for now seven billion people”.

“The indicator report gets us all back to basics, underlining the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases to the erosion of biodiversity and the 40 per cent increase in the use of natural resources—faster than global population growth. But the report also underlines how, when the world decides to act it can dramatically alter the trajectory of hazardous trends that threaten human well-being—action to phase-out ozone damaging chemicals being a spirited and powerful example,” he added. 

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