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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environment sustainability
I support the environment sustainability. i like fresh air ,clean water, beautiful flowers. but now many places are dirty, environmental pollution is very serious, so i hope everyone all should protect the environment ,it is our duty, we should make our world more and more beautiful. last year, my project is planting flowers in our university,we plant sun flowers, it is pretty flower, it can purify environment and make our campus more great,we all like them. finally, we succeed. now, i hope…
I'm really upset recently.I went back to my hometown two weeks ago. There used to be a clear river near our house .My fellow friends and I always played around the river .We could see the plants and fish clearly.However, now the water is dark.The situation is worse that I thought.In World Academy for the Future of Women, I always focus on Environmental Sustainability.We built a vegetable garden on our compus last year which I thought was very cool.Now I feel there are lots of things that I…
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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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