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Current Plans for UNEP’s GEO-5 reporting process and the next pan European assessment report for Astana
Regional Environmental Information Networking Meeting for the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, Hotel Khreschatyk, Kyiv, Ukraine, 3-5 November 2009
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UNEP’s Assessment Mandate Keep under review the is to provide leader ship and encourage provide early warning of emerging environmental problems and threats.
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What is Integrated Environment Assessment?
A participatory and structured approach that links assessment-derived knowledge with actions: - Links environmental state and trend analysis with policies; - Incorporates global and (sub-)regional perspectives; - Includes historical and future perspectives (“scenarios”); - Covers a broad spectrum of issues, policies and sectors; and - Integrates environmental change and human well-being.
IEA also allows policy-makers to address complex challenges; e.g., adaptation to climate change.
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GEO-4 Report and Website
www.unep.org/geo/geo4/media
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Pan-European Reporting by EEA et al.
(regional reporting examples)
Astana: fifth assessment QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.
…pan-European Reporting Series.
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UNEP Medium-Term Strategy 2010-13
The six cross-cutting priority areas:
Climate change
Disasters and conflicts
Ecosystems management
Environmental Governance
Harmful substances and hazardous wastes
Resource efficiency (SPC)
These six priorities provide an increased focus for UNEP’s work, including implementation of the Bali Strategic Plan…
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UNEP’s global-scale IEA process ~ GEO-5
GEO as both a process and products...
Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series of
reports on the state of the global environ-
ment, and associated products.
the GEO Process: a consultative, participatory,
capacity-building process initiated and led since 1995 by UNEP for global environ mental assessment and reporting.
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Past IEA/GEO Global-level Assessments
GEO series of products...
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Options proposed for the GEO-5 report
Options 1-5 discussed by UNEP’s GC-25:
A “classic” IEA report in the style of GEOs-1 to 4.
An expert assessment report (a la HDR/WRR).
A coherent set of integrated & thematic assessments relating to the six priority areas of UNEP.
A purely indicator-based report (like MDG report).
A so-called “UNEP-live” approach for continual, on-line reporting (thematically based).
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Decision: Option 3/transition to Option 5
Features of Option 3: Set of IEAs/Thematic assessments
Flexible/parallel/more rapid (6-18 mo.) assessments.
Able to focus on specific issues (e.g., “food crisis”) under the six priority areas of UNEP’s PoW.
Will include a global report on interlinkages between the six priority areas (“chapeau” or umbrella).
The latter will still be produced every five years.
This approach combines global/macro analysis of environmental state and trends, with a more flexible, rapid and targeted set of reports.
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The next global IEA generation ~ GEO-5
GEO-5 will access all of UNEP’s sub-programmes and their resources; a bold new approach.
GEO-5 will cover the six thematic programme areas, using expert scientific input from the existing collaborating centres network and individual scientists, to provide an up-to-date picture on the state and trends of the global environment.
GEO-5 will build on existing data & indicators work and applications such as the GEO Data Portal, ex panding these into a broad “Platform” for all of UNEP to use in a wide variety of assessment types.
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The next global IEA generation ~ GEO-5
Timetable of GEO-5 related events in 2009 is as follows:
First Experts’ Group Meeting, Nat’l Environment Agency, Netherlands, held 13-15 October.
First Global and multi-Stakeholders’ Consultation, [venue tbd], week three of January 2010.
Initial development, testing and launch of UNEP’s Environmental Data and Indicators Platform to support a scientifically-sound GEO-5 and eventually, a “GEO-live” (on-line process to service/underpin future GEO reports).
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Spasibo / Thanks for your attention!
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Dobris Aarhus Kiev Belgrade Astana Dobris +25
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EEA history of European-level environmental assessements
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IPCC
The broader assessment landscape
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AR1
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AR2 AR3
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AR 4
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AR5 GEO1 GEO2 GEO3 GEO4 GEO5
GEO Assessment of Assessments Millenium ecosystem Assessment Stern Report 2010 year of biodiversity
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Another vision of UNEP-Live
Geo Thematic Content Periodically updated Data portal GEAS - Real Time Alerts - Hot Spots - Science Briefs GEO Live
Database
GEO Live
System
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View on Maps Search By Region Search by Theme Citizen science: My Environment upload Videos Pictures Blogs GEO Live content pages • D R I V I N G F O R R E S U L T S : S T R E N G T H E N I N G T H E S C I E N C E B A S I S A N D C A T A L Y T I C R O L E O F U N E P •