Geo report Fifth edition of the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5) , published by UNEP
Environment for the future we want

This can be used as a basis for a reality check :http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/geo5/GEO5_report_full_en.pdf

Bottom line : …. science must underpin policy making, but as five GEO assessments and reports have shown, it is not enough.Realizing and implementing science-based policies is where the real gap resides, and this can be bridged not by more satellite observations, field monitoring, computations and scenario modeling but by courage, decisiveness and political leadership that matches the reality that GEO-5 confirms. (BAN Ki-moon Secretary General of the United Nations)