Scoping of the Seventh Edition of the Global Environment Outlook: Action for a Healthy Planet

GEO-7 will focus on assessing solutions pathways for policymakers taking into account different socio-economic-and policy contexts, with sufficient guidance on the practical steps for policy development and adoption, implementation, timing, potential challenges, ways to manage unintended consequences and potential socio-economic benefits of these transformations.  The rationale for this focus is that Member States have stressed in the GEO-6 Summary for Policymakers and other assessments that urgent and sustained action is needed to change the trends on these critical environmental issues, but many Member States may be blocked by certain barriers (e.g. political economy context, lack of financing for environmentally sustainable actions, economic policies with substantial environmental impacts, education/habit barriers or lack of coordination in multi-level governance settings ) and may need more practical guidance before moving forward.