Ensure environmental sustainability

Target

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and sanitation

Proportion of people with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural
Proportion of population with access to an improved sanitation, urban and rural

By 2020 to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Millennium Development Goal 7. An assessment of progress with respect to water and sanitation: Legacy, synergy, complacency or policy?: ( P. B. Anand / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2006); This paper critically analyses the issue of water and sanitation, and explores progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The paper states that while globally, about 83 percent of population ...
Water and sanitation goals: is progress in the pipeline?: ( Richard Jolly / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2002); In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable...
Progress for children: a report card on water and sanitation: ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2006); Recommended reading; This issue of Progress for Children by UNICEF reports on whether the world is on course to reach Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7, and the 2015 targets of reducing by half the proportion of people ...
The Millennium Development Goals and conservation: managing nature’s wealth for society’s health: ( D. Roe / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2004); This book focuses on the interface between poverty and the environment. The author argues that achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will require a genuinely integrated approach to conser...