Implications of the 6th UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6) for German environmental and sustainability policy
‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’
The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) officially adopted the sixth edition of the UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6). The report, entitled ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’, stresses the fundamental contribution of nature to human health and well-being. Under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the GEO-6 was prepared by some 150 authors and subjected to an international scientific peer review. It provides a comprehensive overview of the available knowledge on the state of the global environment and the causes of environmental change.