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|Summary=Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a consultative, participatory process that builds capacity for conducting integrated environmental assessments for reporting on the state, trends and outlooks of the environment.  
|IMAGERoleDescription=The GEO outlooks focused on environment for human well-being as the central theme linking environment and development. IMAGE contributed to the energy outlook, and calculated the land-use change and climate consequences of the four updated GEO scenarios.
 
|Summary=Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a consultative, participatory process that builds capacity for conducting integrated environmental assessments for reporting on the state, trends and outlooks of the environment.
 
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==Scenarios ==
 
The scenarios are described below:
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*The Markets First scenario envisages a world in which market-driven developments converge on the currently prevailing values and expectations in industrialized countries;
*In a Policy First world, strong actions are undertaken by governments in an attempt to achieve specific social and environmental goals;
*The Security First scenario assumes a world full of large disparities, where inequality and conflict, brought about by socio-economic and environmental stresses, prevail:
*Sustainability First pictures a world in which a new development paradigm emerges in response to the challenge of sustainability supported by new, more equitable values and institutions.
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Latest revision as of 15:23, 20 November 2018

Website: http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4.asp
Application type: 1. Global integrated assessment
Role of IMAGE framework: The GEO outlooks focused on environment for human well-being as the central theme linking environment and development. IMAGE contributed to the energy outlook, and calculated the land-use change and climate consequences of the four updated GEO scenarios.
Summary: Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a consultative, participatory process that builds capacity for conducting integrated environmental assessments for reporting on the state, trends and outlooks of the environment.
Partner(s): UNEP
Key publication(s): Kok et al., 2009
Referred by: Livestock systems

Scenarios

The scenarios are described below:

  • The Markets First scenario envisages a world in which market-driven developments converge on the currently prevailing values and expectations in industrialized countries;
  • In a Policy First world, strong actions are undertaken by governments in an attempt to achieve specific social and environmental goals;
  • The Security First scenario assumes a world full of large disparities, where inequality and conflict, brought about by socio-economic and environmental stresses, prevail:
  • Sustainability First pictures a world in which a new development paradigm emerges in response to the challenge of sustainability supported by new, more equitable values and institutions.