The United Nations Environment Programme recently released the "GEO Latin America and the Caribbean: Environment Outlook 2003" report, as part of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) project. According to the Introduction, "it is the most important report on the state of the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean". The second chapter of this 279-page publication deals with priority themes for the region: land and food, forest, biodiversity, freshwater, marine and coastal areas, atmosphere, human settlements, health, natural threats and disasters. The section on biodiversity includes a discussion about gene flow from genetically modified maize in Mexico. The previous GEO report for the region was published in 2000. See http://www.pnuma.org (available in English and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for more information.

03/04/2004