GLOBIO Report - 2001. 
Global Methodology for Mapping Human Impacts on the Biosphere.
GRID-Arendal (Norway). 
Web access at http://www.grida.no/prog/polar/globio/

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK 2000 - 1999
UNEP'S Millenium Report on the Environment. Second Edition.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Earthscan Publications Ltd, London, 1999. 398 p.
Web version: http://www.unep.org/geo2000
Press announcement

The next edition, GEO-3, is planned for 2002.

PACHAMAMA: OUR EARTH - OUR FUTURE - 1999
by young people of the world
GEO for youth, based on GEO-2000 - the Global Environment Outlook Report of UNEP.
A joint project of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Peace Child International.
Evans Brothers Ltd, London, 1999.  96 p.
Web version: http://grida.no/geo2000/pacha/index.htm

See also Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reports on SIDS

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK - 1997
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1997 - 264 p.
Web version: Japan: http://www-cger.nies.go.jp/geo1/
Kenya: http://www.unep.org/unep/eia/geo1/
Mexico: http://www.rolac.unep.mx/geo1/
Norway: http://www.grida.no/geo1/
Switzerland: http://www.grid.unep.ch/geo1/
USA: http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/geo1/

WORLD RESOURCES 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life - 2000
A joint publication of the World Resources Institute (WRI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., 2000. 390 p.
Published every two years.
Web version: http://www.wri.org/wr2000
The executive summary, A Guide to World Resources 2000-2001: People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life can be downloaded at http://www.wri.org/wri/wrr2000.

WORLD RESOURCES 1998-1999: Environmental Change and Human Health - 1998
A Guide to the Global Environment. A joint publication of the World Resources Institute (WRI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank.
Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1998 -  370 p.
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-98-99/

THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT 1972-1992: Two Decades of Challenge - 1992
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
M. K. Tolba, O. A. El-Kholy et al., editors
Chapman & Hall, London, 1992 - 884 p.
(The next decadal state of the world environment report is planned for 2002.)

CARIBBEAN ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK - 1999  74 p.
PACIFIC ISLANDS ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK - 1999  65 p.
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK - 1999  79 p.
Reports on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) from the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) programme of UNEP. 
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, 1999.
[ Further information on the preparation of the GEO reports on SIDS ]

STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN CENTRAL AMERICA - 1998
ESTADO DEL AMBIENTE Y LOS RECURSOS NATURALES EN CENTROAMERICA - 1998
Central America Environment and Development Commission (CCAD)
Executive summary and order information at: http://www.ccad.org.gt/informe/

ASIAN ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK 2001 - 2000
Asian Development Bank, Manila
Discussion Draft now available, publication expected in November 2000
Website at http://www.adb.org/environment/aeo contains:
   Downloadable AEO Discussion Draft  and Executive Summary
   Interactive Discussion Forum
   Information on AEO and its authors
   Calendar of AEO events

STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC - 1995
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)/Asian Development Bank
United Nations, New York, 1995 - 653 p.

ASIA-PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK - 1997
UNEP in collaboration with ASEAN, MRC, SACEP, ICIMOD and SPREP.
United Nations Environment Programme, Environment Assessment Programme for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP EAP-AP), Pathumthani, Thailand, 1997 - 62 p.

EUROPE'S ENVIRONMENT: The Second Assessment - 1998
Summary: http://www.eea.eu.int/Document/3-yearly/Dobris2/summary/indexfr.htm

EUROPE'S ENVIRONMENT: The Dobris Assessment - 1995
David Stanners and Philippe Bourdeau, editors
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, 1995 - 676 p.
EUROPE'S ENVIRONMENT: Statistical Compendium for the Dobris Assessment
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1995 - 455 p.

ARCTIC: pilot GLOBIO Report - 2001 
GRID-Arendal (Norway)
Web version: http://www.grida.no/prog/polar/globio/rovaniemi.htm

2. Sustainable Development

CRITICAL TRENDS: Global Change and Sustainable Development - 1997
Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development
United Nations, New York, 1997, ST/ESA/255 - 76 p.
Web version: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/trends.htm
The next Critical Trends report is planned for 2002.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2000
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2000. 290 p.
Published annually. The 2000 report focusses on human rights and human development. 
Web access to pdf version: http://www.undp.org/hdro/

4. Consumption patterns

WORLD ENERGY ASSESSMENT: ENERGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABILITY - 2000
United Nations Development Programme, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and World Energy Council
United Nations Development Programme, New York, 2000. 508 p.

6. Health

DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN - 1999
Edited by H.H.B. Gopalan and S. Saksena. 253 p.
United Nations Environment Programme and Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, 1999

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: - 1997
Five Years After the Earth Summit
World Health Organization, Geneva, 1997, WHO/EHG/97.8 - 242 p.

7. Human Settlements

WORLD DISASTERS REPORT - 2001
Focus on recovery
Published annually
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva - 248 p.
Available from IFRC at http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2001/

DEPLETED URANIUM IN KOSOVO: POST-CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT - 2001
Balkans Unit United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva
Available on the web at http://balkans.unep.ch/du/reports/report.html

THE KOSOVO CONFLICT: CONSEQUENCES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS - 1999
Balkans Task Force, United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva
Available on the Web at http://www.grid.unep.ch/btf. 

8. Environment and Development

9. Atmosphere

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENTS: 

IPCC THIRD ASSESSMENT REPORT - 2001
Vol. I - CLIMATE CHANGE 2001: THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS - January 2001
Vol. II - CLIMATE CHANGE 2001: IMPACTS - February 2001
Vol. III - CLIMATE CHANGE 2001: RESPONSE STRATEGIES - March 2001
The IPCC Third Assessment Report covers a range of scientific, technical, economic and social issues. It focusses heavily on regional aspects. The three volumes of Working Group reports will be integrated into a policy relevant Synthesis Report, which will be completed by the second quarter of 2001.

METHODOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER - 2000
Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Bert Metz, Ogunlade Davidson, Jan-Willem Martens, Sascha Van Rooijen and Laura Van Wie Mcgrory (Eds.)
Cambridge University Press, UK. 432 p.
Available from Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU ENGLAND
Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. 8 p.
Available from IPCC Secretariat in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian.

EMISSIONS SCENARIOS - 2000
Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Nebojsa Nakicenovic and Rob Swart (Eds.)
Cambridge University Press, UK. 570 p.
Available from Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU ENGLAND
Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. 20 p.
Available from IPCC Secretariat in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian.

LAND USE, LAND-USE CHANGE, AND FORESTRY - 2000
Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Robert T. Watson, Ian R. Noble, Bert Bolin, N. H. Ravindranath, David J. Verardo and David  J. Dokken (Eds.)
Cambridge University Press, UK. 375 p.
Available from Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU ENGLAND
Summary for Policymakers
IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland. 20 p.
Available from IPCC Secretariat in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian.

CLIMATE CHANGE 1995 - 1995
WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Second Assessment Report.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

OZONE SECRETARIAT ASSESSMENTS:

SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT OF OZONE DEPLETION - 1998
WMO Ozone Report No. 44.
The Executive Summary is summarized under Ozone depletion on the Emerging Issues page.

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF OZONE DEPLETION - 1997
Interim Summary, September 1997.  Issued by the Ozone Secretariat, UNEP, Nairobi.

Earlier assessments:
1994 Report of the Halon Fire Extinguishing Agents Technical Options Committee
1994 Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel - 1995 Assessment
1994 Report of the Aerosols Sterilants and Miscellaneous Uses and Carbon Tetrachloride Technical Options Committee
1994 Report of the Methyl Bromide  Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
1994 Report of the Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heat Pumps  Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
1994 Report of the Flexible and Rigid Foams  Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
1994 Report of the Solvents, Coatings and Adhesives  Technical Options Committee, 1995 Assessment
Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Part I, II, III, IV, V, and VI, March 1996 Report
UNEP Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Vol. I & II, April 1997 Report
Issued by the Ozone Secretariat, UNEP, Nairobi.

10. Integrated Management of Land Resources

THE MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHLANDS: DEMISE OF AN ECOSYSTEM - 2001  
UNEP GRID-Geneva in collaboration with GRID-Sioux Falls and the UNEP Regional Office for West Asia
Available on-line at: http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/sustainable/tigris/marshlands/

11. Forests

STATE OF THE WORLD'S FORESTS - 1999
Third edition. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
FAO, Rome, 1999.
Available in pdf format at: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/FORESTRY/sofo/sofo99/default.htm

FOREST RESOURCES ASSESSMENT 1990: Global Synthesis - 1995
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
FAO, Rome, 1995 - 102 p.
(the next forest resources assessment should be issued shortly)

12. Desertification

WORLD ATLAS OF DESERTIFICATION - 1997
Second Edition
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, 1997

13. Mountains

THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S MOUNTAINS: A Global Report - 1992
Peter B. Stone (editor).  Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1992
(a new report is in preparation)

14. Agriculture and Rural Development

THE STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE - 1998
FAO Agriculture Series 31 - 396 p.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, 1998
Web version: http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9500e/w9500e00.htm

15. Biological Diversity

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT - 1995
UNEP, V.H. Heywood (Executive Editor), R.T. Watson (Chair) and 1500 experts
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995 - 1140 p.

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY: Status of the Earth's Living Resources - 1992
Compiled by World Conservation Monitoring Centre in collaboration with The Natural History Museum, London, and in association with IUCN, UNEP, WWF, WRI
Chapman & Hall, London, 1992 - 585 p.

MILLENIUM ECOSYSTEMS ASSESSMENT (in preparation) 
http://www.ma-secretariat.org/

16. Biotechnology

17. Oceans

THE STATE OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT - 1990
GESAMP (IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection)
UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 115, 111 p., and Technical Annexes RSRS No. 114/1 and 114/2, 676 p., UNEP, Nairobi, 1990

A new GESAMP State of the Marine Environment report is planned for 2002, following on an assessment of Land-based Activities affecting the marine environment which is presently being prepared.

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE - 2000
FAO Fisheries Department
FAO, Rome, 2000
Web version:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x8002e/x8002e00.htm

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE - 1996
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/FISHERY/publ/sofia/sofiae.htm

WORLD ATLAS OF CORAL REEFS - 2001 (September 2001)
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
California University Press, Berkeley, 2001

STATUS OF CORAL REEFS OF THE WORLD: 2000
edited by Clive Wilkinson, Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 2000
Issued every two years
1998 edition web version: http://www.aims.gov.au/scr1998
2000 edition web version: http://www.reefbase.org/Summaries/GCRMN2000.htm

REEFS AT RISK: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the World's Coral Reefs - 1998
by Dirk Bryant, Lauretta Burke, John McManus and Mark Spaulding. 56 p.
WRI/ICLARM/WCMC/UNEP. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., 1998
Web version: http://www.wri.org/wri/indictrs/reefrisk.htm
Regional Reefs at Risk reports are now in preparation.

The Ocean ... Our Future - 1998
Report of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans, M. Soares (ed.).
Report to the UN General Assembly assessing the state of ocean management.
Cambridge University Press, 1998.

A Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) is now in preparation, with a secretariat under UNEP hosted by the University of Kalmar, Sweden, and with financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNEP and other donors. It is to develop a comprehensive strategic framework for the identification of priorities for remedial and mitigatory actions in international waters (both fresh and marine).

18. Freshwater

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE FRESHWATER RESOURCES OF THE WORLD - 1997
Preparation coordinated by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) for UN/UNDP/UNEP/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/World Bank/WHO/UNIDO
Published by World Meteorological Organization - 33 p.
also issued as Report of the Secretary General to CSD 5:  E/CN.17/1997/9
Web version: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/freshwat.htm

WORLD WATER AND CLIMATE ATLAS - 1999
Geographic Information System available on CD-ROM
Prepared by International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Web information at: http://www.iwmi.org/

The UN ACC Subcommittee on Water Resources has decided to begin the preparation of a periodic World Water Development Report (WWDR), with the first edition to be published in 2002. 

A Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) is now in preparation, with a secretariat under UNEP hosted by the University of Kalmar, Sweden, and with financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNEP and other donors. It is to develop a comprehensive strategic framework for the identification of priorities for remedial and mitigatory actions in international waters (both fresh and marine). Web information at:  http://www.giwa.net/

19. Toxic Chemicals

CHEMICAL POLLUTION: A Global Overview - 1992
Earthwatch/UNEP, prepared by IRPTC and GEMS/MARC
UNEP, Geneva, 1992 - 106 p.

20. Hazardous Wastes
21. Solid Wastes/Sewage

GLOBAL WASTE SURVEY: Final Report - 1995
Prepared by S. Adrian Ross
International Maritime Organization (IMO), London, 1995 - 293 p.

22. Radioactive Wastes

DEPLETED URANIUM IN KOSOVO: POST-CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT - 2001
Balkans Unit United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva
Available on the web at http://balkans.unep.ch/du/reports/report.html

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF RADIOACTIVE RELEASES - 1995
Proceedings of a Symposium, Vienna, 8-12 May 1995
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1995  874 p.

The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) is preparing an extensive assessment of information on radiation exposure worldwide for the year 2000, along with a comprehensive review of the biological effects of radiation.