MDG 7 SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT
Discussions pertaining to MDG 7 and specific countries, organizations, groups or individuals that work towards this goal will take place here. As delineated by the United Nations, the seventh Millennium Development Goal is: To Ensure Environmental Sustainability by 1) Integrating the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reversing the loss of environmental resources, 2) Reducing biodiversity loss, and achieving a significant reduction in the rate of loss, 3) Halving, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and 4) Achieving by 2020 significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
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Do you know that A person living in a poor country is 79 times more likely to be hit by a climate change-related disaster than someone from a rich country? Climate change is one of the major challenges facing the world. Many countries have already been impacted by climate change and this has affected their development as a result of adverse impacts on sectors such as agriculture, water, human health and tourism.
Agricultural production and food security, access to clean and abundant water resources and gainful employment that underpin the solution to extreme poverty and hunger are vulnerable to climate change.
Climate change stresses pose additional burdens on agricultural production and other subsistence activities like water collection, which may burden families enough to remove children from school. Livelihood activities must become more resilient to future climate for education goals to be…
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- The Current State of…I did not have time to review the comments before posting the most recent article, but I think you will pleasantly surprised that I shifted focus to rural energy development. I saved Latin America and the Caribbean for last amongst the developing regions because I think they offer some of the best solutions to increasing access to energy (and I…
- The Current State of…Tai - great article. I think the contrast between Asia and Africa is important in how we view development, and underscores the need for place-based approaches rather than the traditional "one size fits all' development model. I'll be interested to see your article on Latin America as yet another contrast.
Megan - I think you hit the nail on the… - The Current State of…Tai - I found this same disparity when looking at success rates of use of GM crops to resolve increased rates for local farmers in developing nations; there just is not the supporting infrastructure needed to keep up the supply lines. However, I do think that as proper technology becomes more prevalent and cheaper to manufacture, (solar and wind),…
- The Current State of…This is really interesting!!!!!Afghanistan electrification rate of 16%, India 75% eventhough they are billions. This shows how huge the gap in devellopment is even when nations share the same borders, it is sad....Alot to talk about
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