Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-4)

ISRIC - World Soil Information is the international collaborating institute of UNEP and for the GEO4 report ISRIC coordinated the editing of Chapter 3 - Land. The Chapter addresses land issues identified by UNEP 's regional groups, and highlights the pressures of human  demands on land resources as causes of land degradation. The most dynamic elements of land-use change are the far-reaching changes in forest cover and composition, cropland expansion and intensification, and urban development.

25 October  2007 was the official launch of UNEP's 4^th Global Environmental Outlook at the United Nations Headquarters, New York.

UNEP provided an online interactive feature and members of the public could submit questions to UNEP experts and join the global discussion on the environment. Director ISRIC, David Dent, is registered as UNEP 's online expert (The session took place on 9^th and 10^th November 2007).