A lively start to the sixth Global Environment Outlook global assessment First authors meeting, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy, 20-24 February 2017
More than 120 experts met for five days in Frascati, Italy to develop a comprehensive work plan and to create the zero order drafts for the first nine chapters of the sixth Global Environment Outlook. Authors from the Policy Effectiveness and Governance chapter(s) and the Outlooks chapter(s) met to develop work plans for drafting their subsequent sections. Authors also gathered to consider how the process for producing an assessment has evolved, define the drafting approach for the chapters as well as the new tools and methods that are available to do so, including the new Integrated Environmental Assessment Guidelines . With the presence of the High-level Intergovernmental and Stakeholder Advisory Group as well as the Scientific Advisory Panel, the authors were able to interact and receive presentations from these experts to better understand the roles of these advisory bodies. The Secretariat then explained how communications and outreach for the Global Environment Outlook would be undertaken. The different authors teams then spent the remaining 3 days considering how different cross-cutting issues such as food, energy, human health and resource use affected the five environmental areas of air, fresh water, oceans, land and biota.
