As part of its continuing efforts to raise global awareness of the effects of climate change, UNEP prepared the Global Outlook for Ice and Snow at the outset of the International Polar Year 2007-2008. This new analysis focuses on the changes in ice-and-snow covered regions and highlights consequences for the global community.

The GEO Year Book 2007 is essential, informative, and authoritative reading for anyone with a role or an interest in our changing environment. The 2007 edition covers fisheries to forestry and climate to freshwater management underlining risks and opportunities of globalization. Also available in French, Spanish, Russian & Arabic

AEO 2 is the outcome of a collaborative initiative between AMCEN, six sub-regional collaborating centers, environmental experts and UNEP. It highlights the central position Africa’s environment continues to play in sustainable development, enhancing human well-being, as well as its potential to achieve tremendous progress in the implementation of the Millenium Development Goals.

The GEO Yearbook 2006 is the third annual survey of the changing global environment produced by UNEP, in collaboration with many world experts in environment research and action. The Yearbook includes global and regional overviews.

The Atlantic and Indian Oceans Environment Outlook was prepared in collaboration with the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). It covers the states that are included in the United Nations' list of SIDS in these areas ( Cape Verde, the Union Comoros, Maldives, Sao Tome and Pricipe, and Seychelles). The report uses data and information from global, regional and national state of environment reports and from other sources.