A Healthy Planet Supports Healthy People

Agenda 2030 and its SDGs, adopted in 2015, call for environmental objectives to be better integrated with social and economic objectives. The SDGs follow on from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which between 2000 and 2015 focused global attention on key development objectives. However, the SDGs place The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) assesses the state of the environment, the effectiveness of policy and other responses in addressing environmental challenges, and the possible pathways for achieving various internationally agreed environmental goals. It differs from and complements other global assessments (see Annex 1) in its scope and integrated nature. GEO-6 is more holistic in its analysis, whereas other assessments tend to focus more narrowly on, for example, biodiversity and ecosystem services (the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services [IPBES]), climate change (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC]) or the marine environment (the World Ocean Assessment).