The Earth is in critical condition and the human race is threatened

25 October 2007, the publication of the United Nations Environment Program, GEO4, a report on the state of the environment in the world, within the book consists of 524 pages and ten chapters deals with the six key areas:

1. Environment and Development.
2. Outcome and the major trends of the state of the environment from 1987 to 2007.
3. Prospects for Regional 1987-2007.
4. the human dimensions of environmental changes.
5. outlook until 2015 and beyond. 6 to preserve the future of us all.

Beginning of each chapter the most important pages of two letters addressed to the Governments of the world about the policies that must be adopted in order to repair the environment and save the planet and humanity.

Giyo. Follow-up to the state of the environment

Planet’s Tougher Problems Persist,UN Report WarnsNairobi/New York, 25 October: The United Nations Environment Programme says that majorthreats to the planet such as climate change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challengeof feeding a growing population are among the many that remain unresolved, and all of themput humanity at risk.The warning comes in UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook: environment for development(GEO-4) report published 20 years after the World Commission on Environment and Development(the Brundtland Commission) produced its seminal report, Our Common Future.GEO-4, the latest in UNEP’s series of flagship reports, assesses the current state of the globalatmosphere, land, water and biodiversity, describes the changes since 1987, and identifiespriorities for action. GEO-4 is the most comprehensive UN report on the environment, preparedby about 390 experts and reviewed by more than 1 000 others across the world.It salutes the world’s progress in tackling some relatively straightforward problems, with theenvironment now much closer to mainstream politics everywhere. But despite these advances,there remain the harder-to-manage issues, the “persistent” problems. Here, GEO-4 says:“There are no major issues raised in Our Common Future for which the foreseeable trends arefavourable.”Failure to address these persistent problems, UNEP says, may undo all the achievements so faron the simpler issues, and may threaten humanity’s survival. But it insists: “The objective is not topresent a dark and gloomy scenario, but an urgent call for action.”Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: “The internationalcommunity’s response to the Brundtland Commission has in some cases been courageous andinspiring. But all too often it has been slow and at a pace and scale that fails to respond toor recognize the magnitude of the challenges facing the people and the environment of theplanet”.“Over the past 20 years, the international community has cut, by 95 per cent, the productionof ozone-layer damaging chemicals; created a greenhouse gas emission reduction treaty alongwith innovative carbon trading and carbon offset markets; supported a rise in terrestrial protectedareas to cover roughly 12 per cent of the Earth and devised numerous important instrumentscovering issues from biodiversity and desertification to the trade in hazardous wastes and livingmodified organisms,” he added.