The latest issue of "Our Planet", the flagship magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), will be launched on the web on 
MONDAY,5 JUNE 2000, World Environment Day (www.ourplanet.com). 

The magazine deals with the environmental issues that face us all at the beginning of the 21st century and which were discussed at the recent Malmo Conference of the world's environment ministers. 

This "Our Planet"contains,amongst others: 

-- A message from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; 

-- Senator Robert Hill, Australia's Federal Environment Minister, on what his country is doing to conserve its natural heritage; 

-- Jose Maria Figueres Olsen, former President of Costa Rica, on the changes industry is making to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases; 

Profesor Sir Robert May, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, on challenges to biodiversity and the implications of genetic engineering; 

An interview with Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop and environmental activist; 

Dr. Ricardo A. Navarro, Chairman of Friends of the Earth International, on the ecological debt owed by the North to the South; 

Tom Burke, Environmental Policy Advisor to both BP-Amoco and Rio Tinto, on how business needs to change if it is to tackle the new century's environmental agenda; 

and 

a special supplement highlighting some of the World Bank's environmental initiatives. 

TAKE A LOOK, and enter the special competition. Copies of UNEP's comprehensive report on the state of the world's enviroment, GEO 2000, can 
be won. 

all on 

www.ourplanet.com, or contact the UNEP Office in New York for a printed  version -- tel: 1-212-963-8210, e-mail: uneprona@un.org