The resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) requested UNEP’s Executive Director to prepare the seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook, and to do this by ‘developing and implementing streamlined and cost-effective governance and administration’. In line with the UN Secretary General’s ‘Our Common Agenda’, UNEP would like to implement this new governance and administrative model for GEO by fostering increased digital cooperation. This approach is also in line with UNEP’s approach to its Digital Transformation. This new approach will focus on developing five new digital functionalities built into one digital platform to support the production of GEO-7.
This consultative webinar below was organized to further expand on key areas of focus in a needs-assessment study for GEO-7 and to help guide informed input into a questionnaire. This consultative study covers five main areas of GEO digitization:
1. Online graphing and mapping capabilities and tools
2. Online tools for development of terms
3. Automation of definitions and glossaries
4. Online management of peer review processes
5. Digital presentation of GEO-6 in an interactive and user-friendly way
