Blue Planet Nobel Winners - \'perfect storm of problems\'

The stark assessment of the current global outlook by the group, who include Sir Bob Watson, the government\'s chief scientific adviser on environmental issues, US climate scientist James Hansen, Prof José Goldemberg, Brazil\'s secretary of environment during the Rio Earth summit in 1992, and Stanford University Prof Paul Ehrlich, is published today on the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the UN environment programme (Unep). The paper, which was commissioned by Unep, will feed into the Rio +20 earth summit conference in June.

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Civilisation faces \'perfect storm of ecological and social problems\' - Abuse of the environment has created an \'absolutely unprecedented\' emergency, say Blue Planet prizewinners

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/20/climate-change-overconsumption



21 Issues for
the 21st Century

UNEP Foresight Process on
Emerging Environmental Issues

http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/foresightreport/Portals/24175/pdfs/Foresight_Report-21_Issues_for_the_21st_Century.pdf