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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">21 Issues for the 21st Century <br>

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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">United Nations

Environment Programme UNEP Ц February 2012<br>

</span></font></b><font color="#151412" face="NewsGothicMT" size="1"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:NewsGothicMT;color:#151412">Results of the

UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Environmental Issues</span></font><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Available online PDF file [60p.] at:

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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">УЕ.The UNEP Foresight

Panel, involving over 20 distinguished scientists from around the world, spent

close to a year discussing and consulting with some 400 other scientists and experts

globally via an electronic survey.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The goal was to deliver an

international consensus and a priority list of the top emerging environmental

issues alongside options for action.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Emerging environmental issues were

defined as У<i><span style="font-style:italic">issues with either a

positive or negative global environmental impact that are recognized by the

scientific community as very important to human well-being, but not yet

receiving adequate attention from the policy community</span></i>Ф.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The issues chosen were termed as

УemergingФ based on newness, which can be the result of: new

scientific knowledge; new scales or accelerated rates of impact; heightened

level of awareness; and/or new ways of responding to the issue.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">This report is the outcome of that

process and presents the identified issues titled: 21 Issues for the 21st

Century. These issues cut across all major global environmental themes including

food production and food security; cities and land use; biodiversity, fresh

water and marine; climate change and energy, technology and waste issues.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Meanwhile, another cluster of issues

were chosen that essentially cut across sectors and individual themes. These

address questions surrounding such issues as the governance required to more

effectively tackle 21st century sustainability challenges, including the

urgency to bridge the gap between the scientific and policy communities and the

relevance of social tipping points to sustainable consumptionЕ.Ф<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Content:<u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Executive Summary<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">1. Introduction<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">2. Emerging Themes Ц 21 Issues

for the 21st Century<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Cross-cutting Issues <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 001 Aligning Governance to the

Challenges of Global Sustainability<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 002 Transforming Human

Capabilities for the 21st Century: Meeting Global Environmental Challenges and

Moving Towards a Green Economy<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 003 Broken Bridges:

Reconnecting Science and Policy <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 004 Social Tipping Points?

Catalyzing Rapid and Transformative Changes in Human Behaviour towards the

Environment<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 005 New Concepts for Coping

with Creeping Changes and Imminent Thresholds <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 006 Coping with Migration

Caused by New Aspects of Environmental Change Food, Biodiversity and Land <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 007 New Challenges for Ensuring

Food Safety and Food Security for 9 Billion People<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 008 Beyond Conservation:

Integrating Biodiversity across the Environmental and Economic Agendas <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 009 Boosting Urban

Sustainability and Resilience<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 010 The New Rush for Land:

Responding to New National and International Pressures Freshwaters and Marine

Issues <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 011 New Insights on Water-Land

Interactions: Shift in the Management Paradigm? <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 012 Shortcutting the

Degradation of Inland Waters in Developing Countries<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 013 Potential Collapse of

Oceanic Systems Requires Integrated Ocean Governance<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 014 Coastal Ecosystems:

Addressing Increasing Pressures with Adaptive Governance Climate Change Issues <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 015 New Challenges for Climate

Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Managing the Unintended Consequences<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 016 Acting on the Signal of

Climate Change in the Changing Frequency of Extreme Events <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 017 Managing the Impacts of

Glacier Retreat Energy, Technology, and Waste Issues <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 018 Accelerating the

Implementation of Environmentally-Friendly Renewable Energy Systems <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 019 Greater Risk than

Necessary? The Need for a New Approach for Minimizing Risks of Novel

Technologies and Chemicals <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 020 Changing the Face of Waste:

Solving the Impending Scarcity of Strategic Minerals and Avoiding Electronic

Waste <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial">Issue 021 The Environmental

Consequences of Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors <br>

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Questionnaire <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>

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