North America's Environment

Focusing on UNEP's North American region, comprised of Canada and the United States, report provides an integrated analysis of the state of resource assets and 30–year trends in nine major themes.

Executive Summary

Focusing on UNEP's North American region, comprised of Canada and the United States, this report provides an integrated analysis of the state of resource assets and 30–year trends in nine major themes:

• atmosphere,
• biodiversity,
• coastal and marine areas,
• disasters,
• freshwater,
• forests,
• human health and the environment,
• land, and
• urban areas.

This report expands on the North American regional contribution to the State of the Environment chapter of GEO-3, published in May 2002.