The Second Order Draft (SOD) of the main report and the First Order Draft (FOD) of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) were submitted for intergovernmental and expert peer review on 1 November 2024, and the drafts will be available for comments till the 22 January 2025.
The Secretariat has followed the recommendations from the Intergovernmental and Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IMAG) and the Multi-disciplinary Expert Scientific Advisory Group (MESAG) to make significant efforts in recruiting more peer reviewers, prioritizing the diversity of expertise in the selection process, while also striving to achieve gender and geographic balance. This should help ensure sufficient external review of the GEO-7 main report and its SPM.
The Secretariat extended the reviewer nomination deadline twice, for an additional 2 weeks to ensure Member States and members of specialized agencies could share their reviewers’ nomination list with the GEO Secretariat, ensuring their participation in the GEO-7 review process and the final deadline was on 25 October. Nevertheless, the reviewer application portal remains open for nominations from Member States and members of specialized agencies.
