Experts

State of the Environment and Outlooks  

Policy, technology and behaviour change   

Environmental themes:  

• Air (atmosphere)  

• Biodiversity  

• Land and soil  

• Oceans and coasts  

• Freshwater  

Solutions pathways:  

• Policy and political economy analysis  

• Policy development  

• Policy effectiveness  

• State and evolution of technological solutions change  

• State and evolution of behavioural change solutions  

Triple planetary crisis:  

• Climate change   

• Biodiversity and nature loss   

• Pollution and waste  

Additional issues to be assessed:  

• Land degradation  

Transformational solutions pathways for:  

• Economic and financial systems  

• Energy systems  

• Food systems  

• Materials/waste/circularity systems  

• Environmental change adaptation (including Climate Change) as it applies to these systems  

Outlooks and scenarios:  

• Modelling transformational pathways in energy, food and circularity  

• Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of business-as-usual scenarios  

• Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of with commitments scenarios  

• Environmental and socioeconomic impacts of target-seeking scenarios  

• Regional and sub-regional outlooks  

• Scenarios based on literature reviews  

Analysis of solutions pathways:  

• Economic impacts of solutions pathways  

• Social impacts of solutions pathways  

• Impacts on indigenous peoples of solutions pathways  

• Cost-benefit analysis  

Sustainable development goals:  

• Equity impacts of solutions pathways  

• Gender impacts of solutions pathways  

• Impacts on poverty and hunger    

• Impacts on human well-being1   

Data and Knowledge sources:  

• Digital data management and display  

• Mapping and geographical information systems  

• Citizen science  

• Indigenous, traditional, and local knowledge