The world faces important decisions on how we generate energy and manage our natural assets—choices with implications that will reverberate for generations to come. Against a backdrop of a rising global population and unceasing pressure on the natural environment, this 2011 edition of the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) can guide our collective efforts to achieve a much-needed technological transformation to a greener, cleaner global economy.

The Report:
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wess/wess_current/2011wess.pdf