RT Report
T1 Environment Outlook in Amazonia: Global Environment Outlook Amazonia
T2 Perspectivas del medio ambiente en la Amazonia - GEO Amazonia
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, 
K1 Amazonia
K1 biodiversity
K1 forest
K1 water resource
K1 aquatic ecosystem
K1 environmental degradation
K1 ecosystem service
K1 environmental governance
SN 978-92-807-2945-0
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/9421
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/9421
NO This document presents an integrated environmental assessment of the Amazon Basin shared by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, prepared through a multi-year, multi-country process using the Global Environment Outlook methodology. It frames Amazonia’s global ecological significance while describing contemporary socioeconomic change, including rapid urbanisation, expanding monoculture and livestock production, and large transport and energy infrastructures. The assessment links these pressures to major impacts such as extensive deforestation, habitat loss and biodiversity decline, water-quality degradation from multiple anthropogenic sources, and rising social conflict and health vulnerabilities. 
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 16, 2026