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UNEP’s Assessment Mandate

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. UNEP’s Assessment Mandate.

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UNEP’s Assessment Mandate

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  1. 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

  2. UNEP’s Assessment Mandate Keep under review the state of & trends in the global environment, and provide early warning of emerging environmental problems and threats. is to provide leader ship and encourage

  3. 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.

  4. GEO-4 Report and Website www.unep.org/geo/geo4/media

  5. Pan-European Reporting by EEA et al. (regional reporting examples) Astana: fifth assessment …pan-European Reporting Series.

  6. 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…

  7. 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.

  8. Past IEA/GEO Global-level Assessments GEO series of products...

  9. 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).

  10. 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.

  11. Schematic Diagram of “UNEP-Live” Concept

  12. 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.

  13. 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).

  14. Spasibo / Thanks for your attention!

  15. EEA history of European-level environmental assessements Pan European Dobris Aarhus Kiev Belgrade Astana Dobris +25 1998 2011 2016 2003 2007 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 SOER SOER 2010 SOER 2015

  16. The broader assessment landscape 2009 2014 2002 2001 2007 2000 2005 2015 1990 2010 1995 IPCC AR1 AR3 AR2 AR 4 AR5 GEO GEO1 GEO3 GEO2 GEO5 GEO4 Assessment of Assessments Millenium ecosystem Assessment Stern Report 2010 year of biodiversity

  17. Another vision of UNEP-Live GEOLive Website -------------------------- View on Maps Search By Region Search by Theme Geo Thematic Content Periodically updated Data portal Search Search GEOLive System Search GEAS - Real Time Alerts - Hot Spots - Science Briefs GEOLive Database Citizen science: My Environment upload Videos Pictures Blogs GEOLive content pages

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