GEO MATTERS January 2018

As the Global Environment Outlook process advances, we are quickly approaching our fourth and final authors meeting in Singapore (Feb. 19-23, 2017).  This meeting will be crucial for ensuring high-quality second-order drafts of all the chapters are prepared for the April 16 to May 18, 2018, expert review period.  This review will be followed by a full intergovernmental and expert review period from June 15 to August 17, 2018.  Once authors have addressed all of these comments, this is expected to result in a final Global Environment Outlook text in September or October of 2018.  Following professional layout, this draft will then be shared with UN Environment Assembly Member States in December 2018 as an embargoed copy, in preparation for the official launch at the fourth UN Environment Assembly, (May 11-15, 2019).