This assessment, Global Environment Outlook 6: Regional assessment for Asia and the Pacific, analyzes key environmental themes on air, land, biota and ecosystems, freshwater, coasts and oceans, and waste using the drivers-pressures-state-impact-response (DPSIR) framework, shows accelerating environmental degradation widely across the region and its impact on human well-being.
The regional assessment is structured in four main chapters that:
- reviews the regional priorities established at the REIN conference and explain why each priority is of importance to the region;
- establishes the state of the region’s environment for six key themes, air, land, biota, freshwater, coasts and oceans, and wastes, and analyses the key trends for each;
- assesses policy responses to these environmental issues;
- reviews the main trends that will affect the region’s environment in the future and analyses the action needed for it to achieve a more sustainable future.