Global Environmental Outlook - GEO4 (2007) project: Difference between revisions

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Website:	http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4.asp
Application type:	1. Global integrated assessment
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
Referred by:	Livestock systems

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 |Description=The scenarios are described below:
-*The Markets First scenario envisages a world in which market-driven developments
+*The Markets First scenario envisages a world in which market-driven developments converge on the currently prevailing values and expectations in industrialized countries;
-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;
-*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
+*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.
-response to the challenge of sustainability supported by new, more equitable values and institutions.
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