Over 300 experts from around the world met between September and October 2022 to officially launch the production of the 7th edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7), the flagship report of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The GEO-7, expected to be presented to the 7th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) by 2026, provides an integrated and holistic environmental assessment of pathways to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
Scientists at the United Nations' intergovernmental body focusing on biodiversity sounded alarms earlier this month with its report on the looming potential extinction of one million species but few heard their calls, according to a report in German newspaper ​Deutsche Welle.
Multinational research presents the first worldwide assessment of all terrestrial vertebrate species that have not been declared extinct, including more than 500 species that are deemed 'lost,' meaning nobody has observed them in more than 50 years.