Synopsis

The World Resources Report offers essential economic, population, and natural resource data for 146 countries. With more than 150 tables, charts and figures.

Executive Summary

  • World Environment Overview. Crisp summations of the worlds most critical environmental and natural resource problems.
  • Global Climate Change Report. National ranking of greenhouse gas emissions based on newly assembled data, a review of the state of science of climate change, and a wide-ranging look at policy options that could reduce or prevent global warming.
  • Latin American Environment Overview. A survey of the most critical environmental and natural resource problems of this key region, including deforestation, urban pollution, and land degradation.