The promise of
Stockholm
Elizabeth Dowdeswell,
Executive Director, UNEP
The way ahead
Maurice F. Strong evaluates UNEP's achievements over the past 25 years and suggests a clarification of its
future role
Redefining UNEP
Mostafa K. Tolba, talking to Geoffrey Lean, suggests new
global, regional and national roles for UNEP as it enters its
second quarter of a century
Saving the shield
Mario J. Molina describes the success of the Montreal
Protocol in protecting the
Earth's endangered ozone layer
Desert reaches Europe
Emma Gabunshina describes how desertification has caused an
environmental crisis in European Russia and the struggle,
assisted by UNEP, to combat it
Critical coastlines
Eileen B. Claussen outlines action to implement the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of
the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities
Cleaner, timely and
all-embracing
Osama A. El-Kholy describes the rapid development of
UNEP's Cleaner Production Programme and outlines the
challenges ahead
Insuring the future
Carlos Joly assesses the insurance industry's financial stake
in the environment and describes the initiative
it is taking with UNEP to protect it
Mapping the web of life
Vernon Heywood gives an insider's view of the compiling of
the Global Biodiversity Assessment and of the main
lessons to be drawn from it
What others think...
Quotations from around the world
Global environmental
citizenship
Alicia Bárcena
On the world, by the world, for the
world
The Global Environment Outlook
UNEP News
The planet does not belong to grown-ups
only
Harsha Batra
