Galway Greens

Last year a comprehensive report was produced by the UN Environment

Programme called GEO-4 -The fourth Global Environment Outlook: environment for development.

The report is the fourth installment in what was originally the Brundtland Commission Report over 20 years ago.

What the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) is to the specific problem that is Climate Change, the Global Environment Outlook reports are to the OVERALL ENVIRONMENT – massively important, yet they are unheard of by most citizens and politicians including many greens.

While climate change is the topic gaining most concern in the media and with the public, there are others putting the squeeze on humanity which urgently need to be addressed including:

• Pollution of land, water and atmosphere
• Water depletion and mismanagement.
• Peak oil and gas
• Loss of biodiversity
• Food security
• Overpopulation
• Waste (mis)management
• Widespread destruction of rain forests and other habitats.

Trying to address the problems of global environmental, economic and social sustainability without awareness of the problems is akin to flying blind without instruments in poor visibility.

A further description of the GEO process described in this link. For more background, see also the press release on the release of the report.

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