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PROGRESS TOWARDS MEETINGINTERNATIONALLY AGREED GOALS
(Findings from GEO-5 Draft 2 as at 26 September 2011)
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INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE 11 SUMMARY OF GAPS AND PROGRESS TOWARDS MEETING INTERNATIONALLY AGREED GOALS 311 Atmosphere 312 Land 313 Water 414 Biodiversity 515 Chemicals and waste 52 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTED RESPONSE OPTION 7ANNEX A: Atmosphere 9ANNEX B: Land 11ANNEX C: Water 13ANNEX D: Biodiversity 1ANNEX E: Chemicals and Waste 21
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P R O G R E S S T O W A R D S M E E T I N G I N T E R N A T I O N A L L Y A G R E E D G O A L S1
INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE
UNEP’s Fith Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) aims to provide an assessment o the state and trends o the globalenvironment using internationally agreed goals as a reerence point Through this analysis, GEO-5 provides a betterunderstanding o the gaps in, and progress towards, meeting these goalsThis document is based on some early ndings rom GEO-5 (Drat 2) on selected goals, gaps and progress towards theirachievement as well as some relevant policy conclusions The goals relate to the thematic areas o atmosphere, land, water,biodiversity and chemicals and waste GEO-5 has a strong emphasis on regional issues, related to selected environmentalchallenges and internationally agreed goals and includes an analysis o promising policy options using a wide range ocase studies GEO-5 will also provide sustainability scenarios showing projections and possible pathways to a sustainableutureThe GEO-5 Assessment Report will be published in May 2012 Its Summary or Policy Makers will be available in February2012
Scope and methodology
The internationally agreed goals analysed in GEO were selected by a High Level Intergovernmental Panel established toguide the GEO process The Panel selected the most appropriate internationally agreed goals rom both legally binding andnon-legally binding instruments as well as rom instruments agreed at the highest possible intergovernmental level taken intoconsideration their policy relevanceThe GEO-5 assessment used key indicators and time series data sets to establish trends and evaluate perormance againstmeeting selected internationally agreed goals The goals with quantiable targets and available data could be assessed witha greater level o certainty than qualitative goals which lacked targets, indicators and supporting data The availability odata or many o the indicators was ound to be lacking or non-existent
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