It was negotiated and endorsed on 31 January 2012 by:

The Intergovernmental Meeting on the fifth Global Environment Outlook Summary for Policy Makers

Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Czech Republic,

Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, South

Sudan, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Yemen

Palestine attended the meeting as an observer

The following intergovernmental organisation (IGO)-the League of Arab States also attended the meeting

The UNEP Secretariat included

Joseph Alcamo, Matthew Billot, Ludgarde Coppens, Volodymyr Demkine, Linda Dusquenoy, Sandor Frigyik, Peter Gilruth, Tessa Goverse,

Jason Jabbour, Fatoumata Keita-Ouane, Masa Nagai, Nick Nuttall, Brigitte Ohanga, Young-Woo Park, Nalini Sharma, Anna Stabrawa, Ron Witt

Production team

Helen de Mattos, Neeyati Patel, Riccardo Pravettoni (GRID-Arendal), Audrey Ringler, Petter Sevaldsen (GRID-Arendal),

Janet Fernandez Skaalvik (GRID-Arendal), Bartholomew Ullstein

eBook Production team

Rob Barnes (GRID-Arendal), Ivica Itchy Cvetanovski (GRID-Arendal) Neeyati Patel