Global Environment Outlook 7

Seven drivers, four pressures, four global environmental crises and three scenarios.

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Drivers

  1. Demography.
  2. Economic development.
  3. Technology and development.
  4. Urbanisation.
  5. Lifestyles and consumption.
  6. Governance.
  7. Shocks.

Pressures

  1. Emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution.
  2. Land use change.
  3. Resource use and exploitation.
  4. Invasive alien species.

Global environmental crises

  1. Climate change.
  2. Biodiversity loss.
  3. Land degradation.
  4. Pollution and waste.

Scenarios

  1. Current trends.
  2. Behaviour-focused transformation.
  3. Technology-focused transformation.