The new UNEP report, Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20, focuses on the urgent need to curb resource depletion and ensure human activities do not destroy the very environment that supports economies and sustains life.
Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said the report was a timely reminder for world leaders of the areas that continue to need urgent attention such as the rapid build-up of greenhouse gases, the erosion of biodiversity and the use of natural resources, which increased by 40 per cent from 1992 to 2005, a much faster pace than population growth.
The report is part of UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook-5 (GEO-5) series, which assesses the state and trends of the global environment. The full GEO-5 report will be launched next May, one month ahead of Rio+20.
Read the 111-page report HERE. On slower connection it might take couple of minutes for the report to download
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