abstract:Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports on the environment issued periodically by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The GEO project was initiated in response to the environmental reporting requirements of UN Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995 which requested the production of a new comprehensive global state of the environment report.
"GlobalEnvironmentOutlook 2000" has pointed out that the humanrightneedsofforestandfarmlandhasled the world's forestsdecreasedby 35%, of which 30% changed intoagriculturalland.