ABSTRACT
As the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) developed, various support systems grew with it. The systems served to generate and discuss methods, data and information and to make these elements transparent. Support structures further included mechanisms to obtain and account for finance and inkind support and for a core group in the Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to plan the process, coordinate production and ensure institutional memory. Over the years, various incarnations of a GEO manual appeared, serving both the production of GEO and GEO-like assessments and building the capacity for similar work across the globe. From the beginning, a system of evaluation was in place for each edition.
